Quotes About Bearing

#1. Till facts be grouped and called there can be no prediction. The only advantage of discovering laws is to foretell what will happen and to see the bearing of scattered facts. - Author: Charles Darwin

#2. MG was nearly mythical, other than my entries - no interaction with users on
the off chance one was a Fernoza on the troll. And today proved I couldn't take a stranger bearing gifts at face-value. - Author: A.E.H. Veenman

#3. 'Wingnuts' is the first book bearing the imprint of Beast Books. - Author: Tina Brown

#4. To me, the work I do is a means of interpreting unsettling truths, of bearing witness, and of sounding an alarm. The beauty of formal representation both carries an affirmation of life and subversively brings us face to face with news from our besieged world. - Author: Richard Misrach

#5. In order for us to have a future that's exciting and inspiring, it has to be one where we're a space-bearing civilization. - Author: Elon Musk

#6. It seems so utterly naive that landscape - not that of the pictorial school - is not considered of "social significance" when it has a far more important bearing on the human race of a given locale than excrescences called cities. - Author: Edward Weston

#7. If anything can be invented more excruciating than an English Opera, such as was the fashion at the time I was in London, I am sure no sin of mine deserves the punishment of bearing it. - Author: Margaret Fuller

#8. A militia, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves ... and include all men capable of bearing arms. - Author: Richard Henry Lee

#9. And so he did his endless work,' I continued quietly, 'without feeling, without pity, without rest, for to open his heart to these would be to open his heart to his loneliness and longing and that was beyond bearing. - Author: Martine Leavitt

#10. A private Life is to be preferrd; the Honour and Gain of publick Posts, bearing no proportion with the Comfort of it. - Author: William Penn

#11. My having HIV has no bearing on my business. - Author: Magic Johnson

#12. When you enter heaven you shall find Him there bearing the dew of His youth; and through eternity the Lord Jesus shall still remain the perennial spring of joy, and life, and glory to His people. - Author: Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#13. Beware of geeks bearing formulas. - Author: Warren Buffett

#14. Side by side they were very much alike, in similarity less of lineament than of manner and bearing, a correspondence of gestures which bounced and echoed between them so that a blink seemed to reverberate, moments later, in a twitch of the other's eyelid. - Author: Donna Tartt

#15. Often, parents feel overwhelmed. Many must accomplish the whole job single-handedly while bearing all of the emotional pain of divorce. - Author: Joseph B. Wirthlin

#16. A parcel
taken from one place to another, handed from one owner to another, unwrapped and bundled up at will
is all that I am. A vessel, for the bearing of sons, for one nobleman or another: it hardly matters who. - Author: Philippa Gregory

#17. No politics, Murphy," Eve chided with a wag of her finger. "You're here to do a job." "Work." His furry mouth drooped. "How depressing. I'm a god. I should be having fun." "How about causing mischief?" His bearing straightened. "I'm good at doing that. - Author: Eve Langlais

#18. The bearing of arms is the essential medium through which the individual asserts both his social power and his participation in politics as a responsible moral being ... - Author: J. G. A. Pocock

#19. Utah may well be the most cosmopolitan state in America. Vast numbers of young Mormons - increasingly women as well as men - spend a couple of years abroad as missionaries and return jabbering in Thai or Portuguese and bearing a wealth of international experience. - Author: Nicholas Kristof

#20. The Cadiz tribe, not used to bearing our yoke. - Author: Horace

#21. Choose a subject equal to your abilities; think carefully what your shoulders may refuse, and what they are capable of bearing. - Author: Horace

#22. I also came to understand that our authenticity (or lack thereof) is made evident by the fruit that our life is bearing. - Author: Christine Caine

#23. How I wish your bearing and conversation were such that, on seeing or hearing you, people would say: 'This man reads the life of Jesus Christ. - Author: Josemaria Escriva

#24. It seems to me morally a decent society will try to take some of the increased benefit and use that to alleviate the pain of the few who are bearing the cost that made it possible. - Author: Tim Bishop

#25. She had a tall bearing and a tall voice and a tall manner, and was tall in every respect except height. Amazingly, she'd apparently been able to keep this a secret from people. - Author: Terry Pratchett

#26. You are a spirit, bearing the weight of a dead body, as Epictetus used to say. - Author: Marcus Aurelius

#27. First and foremost, the monk should own nothing in this world, but he should have as his possessions solitude of the body, modesty of bearing, a modulated tone of voice, and a well-ordered manner of speech. He should be without anxiety as to his food and drink, and should eat in silence. - Author: Saint Basil

#28. Jimmie would forever be the Renaissance humanist, bearing his faith and optimism like a white light inside a chalice. - Author: James Lee Burke

#29. But women are always attracted to power. I do not think there could ever be a conqueror so bloody that most women would not willingly lie with him in the hope of bearing a son who would be every bit as ferocious as the father. - Author: Gore Vidal

#30. For most of our young lives, my family was baffled by elementary school bake sales, to which we were told to bring in goodies to sell. While other kids arrived bearing brownies, chocolate chip cookies, and apple pies, Chinese families didn't bake. - Author: Jennifer Lee

#31. No self-respecting small businessman with a brain in the right place would ever employ a lady of child-bearing age. - Author: Godfrey Bloom

#32. I tell you there isn't a thing under the sun that needs to be done at all, but what a man can do better than a woman, unless it's bearing children, and they do that in a poor make-shift way; it had better ha been left to the men. - Author: George Eliot

#33. And with that, Umasi reached down and slung Zyid's lifeless body over his shoulder, stoically bearing the morbid burden in silence. Slowly, solemnly, the two brothers turned as one to face the warm, beckoning glow of the rising sun, together for one last time. - Author: Isamu Fukui

#34. I could hardly wait for following chapters, which arrived in dribs and drabs, and I began to feel for all the world like the young T.B. Macaulay walking from London to meet the Cambridge coach bearing the next installment of Waverley novels. - Author: Vernon Sproxton

#35. Stanley Hauerwas is correct that Judaism insists on the bearing of children because it is essential to Jewish continuity. But to end the matter there is to miss an essential point: if we are to learn to love others, Judaism says, we must begin by loving those who are closest to us. - Author: Meir Soloveichik

#36. There was more courage in bearing trouble than in escaping from it; the brave and the energetic cling to hope, even in spite of fortune; the cowardly and the indolent are hurried by their fears,' said Plotius Firmus, Roman Praetorian Guard. - Author: Tacitus

#37. I am not alone in bearing grudges against reviewers who have doomed a book's chances because they've missed the point, the tone, everything ... - Author: Ann Beattie

#38. Intelligence is the flower of discrimination. There are many examples of the flower blooming but not bearing fruit. Bushido is in being crazy to die. Fifty or more could not kill one such a man. - Author: Nabeshima Naoshige

#39. The quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives has direct bearing upon the product which we live, and upon the changes which we hope to bring about through those lives. - Author: Audre Lorde

#40. Her profile as well as her stature and bearing seemed to gain the more dignity from her plain garments, which by the side of provincial fashion gave her the impressiveness of a fine quotation from the Bible, - or from one of our elder poets, - in a paragraph of to-day's newspaper. - Author: George Eliot

#41. Rules only matter if everyone understands them, agrees to them, and can be trusted not to break them. Bearing these irrefutable facts in mind, rules never matter at all. - Author: Seanan McGuire

#42. The hijab, or sikh turban, or Jewish skullcap are all explicit symbols, but they do not represent a threat or affront to others, and have no bearing on the competence, skills and intelligence of a person. - Author: Randa Abdel-Fattah

#43. And so love and sacrifice is the law of Christ. "Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ." The law of Christ is the bearing of others' burdens, the sharing of others' griefs, sacrificing yourself for another. - Author: A.B. Simpson

#44. To witness is to make the truth known, but we must remember that most victims have no voice of their own, and that in bearing witness to their stories we must not appropriate them. - Author: Ha Jin

#45. It is labor that keeps the strong man strong. And spiritual labor, toil and burden-bearing, is what will give strength to the church of Christ. - Author: Ellen G. White

#46. The word knight, which originally meant boy or servant, was particularly applied to a young man after he was admitted to the privilege of bearing arms. - Author: Thomas Bulfinch

#47. Punctuation is to words as cartilage is to bone, permitting articulation and bearing stress. - Author: John Lennard

#48. If this was mental illness, or even just a particularly clinical case of adolescence, I was bearing up pretty well. - Author: Barbara Ehrenreich

#49. Rather, it is bearing in mind what is most important to you so that it is not lost or betrayed in the heat and reactivity of a particular moment. - Author: Jon Kabat-Zinn

#50. First, I thought, almost despairing,
This must crush my spirit now;
Yet I bore it, and am bearing-
Only do not ask me how. - Author: Heinrich Heine

#51. I love getting to be in 'The Avengers.' You just breathe a little bit. It's not all about you. It's so nice to have other people bearing the burden of responsibility. - Author: Chris Evans

#52. Naturally, also, both sides were convinced they had right on their side, not that either was remotely naive enough to think that had any possible bearing on the outcome whatsoever. - Author: Iain Banks

#53. For the grace of bearing life's inevitable evils is itself a
good, and makes goodness arise even from evils by
opposing them or enduring them with courage. - Author: A.C. Grayling

#54. We know what boredom is: it is a dull
Impatience or a fierce velleity,
A champing wish, stalled by our lassitude,
To make or do. In the strict sense, of course,
We invent nothing, merely bearing witness
To what each morning brings again to light - Author: Richard Wilbur

#55. Inviting children as gospel learners to act and not merely be acted upon builds on reading and talking about the Book of Mormon and bearing testimony spontaneously in the home. - Author: David A. Bednar

#56. May we never risk the life of our souls by being resentful or by bearing grudges. - Author: Gregory Of Nyssa

#57. When nothing else subsists from the past, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered ... the smell and taste of things remain poised a long time, like souls ... bearing resiliently, on tiny and almost impalpable drops of their essence, the immense edifice of memory - Author: Marcel Proust

#58. What earnest worker, with hand and brain for the benefit of his fellowmen, could desire a more pleasing recognition of his usefulness than the monument of a tree, ever growing, ever blooming, and ever bearing wholesome fruit? - Author: Washington Irving

#59. The mere fact of an American being present could help save the lives of innocent people. That's why I believe in the importance of bearing witness, to become a voice for the voiceless. - Author: Bianca Jagger

#60. People are realizing that color has no bearing on what's known as brotherhood. - Author: Omar Epps

#61. walk to win others to follow Him fully. It is only in such fruit-bearing that our own abiding can be - Author: Andrew Murray

#62. Of the various kinds of intelligence, generosity is the first.

Gienka Home from the Ball Bearing Plant (1943) - Author: John Surowiecki

#63. Christianity is the present: it is both gift and task, receiving the gift of God's inner closeness and - as a consequence - bearing witness to Jesus Christ. - Author: Pope Benedict XVI

#64. To truly live by faith, one must be willing to live in the tension of not knowing. Not understanding certain things. Not having all the answers. A person must walk humbly, bearing the mystery of a God who far surpasses any human capacity to fully define Him. - Author: Jamie George

#65. I had once read, in one of those pre-plague books in the library, that love was bearing witness. That it was the act of watching someone's life, of simply being there to say: you're life is worth seeing. - Author: Anna Carey

#66. We gain or strengthen a testimony by bearing it. - Author: Dallin H. Oaks

#67. You know, that's what I hate: when you start talking like this, like you just pull in these things from the shit you read, and you haven't thought it out for yourself, no bearing on the world around us, and totally unoriginal. - Author: Richard Linklater

#68. Endeavor to be patient in bearing with the defects and infirmities of others, of what sort 'soever they be; for that thyself also has many failings which must be borned with by others. - Author: Thomas A Kempis

#69. If Jesus Christ was not perfect, then the religion bearing his name falls to the ground. - Author: Swami Vivekananda

#70. Invisible airwaves crackle with life Bright antennae bristle with the energy Emotional feedback on a timeless wavelength Bearing a gift beyond price, almost free - Author: Geddy Lee

#71. I don't need to compromise my principles, because they don't have the slightest bearing on what happens to me anyway. - Author: John Calvin

#72. Bearing our cross does not mean wearing gunny sacks and long faces. Some people ... wear the look of a martyr every time they hear criticism. Sometimes we deserve the criticism we receive; however, we are blessed only when men speak evil against us falsely for Christ's sake. - Author: Billy Graham

#73. Whales are killed today to supply the limited demand for whale meat or to be used in pet foods or as fodder for fur-bearing animals used in the fur trade. - Author: Paul Watson

#74. ..the face struck me at that moment as neither masculine nor childlike, neither old nor young, but somehow a thousand years old, somehow timeless, bearing the scars of an entirely different history than we knew. - Author: Hermann Hesse

#75. Because I am afraid of commitment. This movie certainly has some bearing and is some reflection of my real feeling about relationships, because I do have commitment issues. My friends tell me I have intimacy problems, but they don't know me, so who cares what they think? - Author: Garry Shandling

#76. All our life," William James told us in the prologue, "so far as it has definite form, is but a mass of habits - practical, emotional, and intellectual - systematically organized for our weal or woe, and bearing us irresistibly toward our destiny, whatever the latter may be."9.29 - Author: Charles Duhigg

#77. China is bearing the environmental cost for much of the world because China is the factory of the world. - Author: Ma Jun

#78. Vegans and vegetarians are commonly baited by nonvegetarians with "what if" scenarios that typically have no relevance to or bearing on most people's real-life situations. - Author: Joanne Stepaniak

#79. Sometimes I go about in pity for myself, and all the while, a great wind is bearing me across the sky. - Author: Ellen Gilchrist

#80. The soldier is the Army. No army is better than its soldiers. The Soldier is also a citizen. In fact, the highest obligation and privilege of citizenship is that of bearing arms for one's country - Author: George S. Patton Jr.

#81. God save me ere I have any babies. They are grabby, clingy creatures who steal your figure and always want a ribbon or a wooden sword. And who sometimes make you die bearing them. - Author: J. Anderson Coats

#82. It is certain that either wise bearing or ignorant carriage is caught as men take diseases, one of another. - Author: William Shakespeare

#83. Beware of geeks, you know, bearing formulas. - Author: Howard Warren Buffett

#84. The Athenians, front-fighters of the Greeks, at Marathon destroyed the power of the gold-bearing Medes. - Author: Simonides

#85. My debauchery I undertook solitarily, by night, covertly, fearfully, filthily, with a shame that would not abandon me ... I was then already bearing the underground in my soul. - Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#86. The storyteller is one who comes bearing a great and lasting gift. - Author: Edward Eggleston

#87. The ministry of bearing with one another is learning to hear God speak through difficult people. - Author: John Ortberg

#88. And thus Epimetheus took the lovely Pandora to wife in spite of the warning of his brother, Prometheus, then in the Caucasus, to beware of the Gods bearing gifts. - Author: Nicholas Chong

#89. John's bearing record, points out his faithfulness according to the Charge and Commission given him; what is given him to deliver, he keeps not up; what he receives in charge, he discharges. - Author: James Durham

#90. Bearing all this in mind, we see that there is no Russian national understanding which would permit the early establishment in Russia of anything resembling the private enterprise system as we know it. - Author: George F. Kennan

#91. Christ in me" means Christ bearing me along from within, Christ the motive power that carries me on, Christ giving my whole life a wonderful poise and lift, and turning every burden into wings . . . not as something you have to bear but as something by which you are borne. - Author: James Bryan Smith

#92. It is well for men to risk dangers, for we have broad backs to bear the blows, but I marvel at the courage of women who go with us, and must think of bearing children alone, and in a far place. - Author: Louis L'Amour

#93. Some men don't want to be responsible fathers. It's easier to say 'Let's just turn the kids over to the state.' Women end up bearing the entire load, raising kids alone without a husband to share the parenting. - Author: Tim Huelskamp

#94. [Nature] ever bearing witness against man that he has deliberately chosen ugliness instead of beauty ... - Author: William Morris

#95. I believe that this president [George W. Bush], regrettably, rushed us into a war, made decisions about foreign policy, pushed alliances away. And, as a result, America is now bearing this extraordinary burden where we are not as safe as we ought to be. - Author: John F. Kerry

#96. He inclined his head ever so slightly, displaying with his bearing the supreme confidence, even arrogance, that is the sole providence of cats, dragons, and certain highborn women. - Author: Christopher Paolini

#97. The spine is best at bearing a load in an arch - Author: Mark Rippetoe

#98. Just as Mars - a desert planet - gives us insights into global climate change on Earth, the promise awaits for bringing back to life portions of the Red Planet through the application of Earth Science to its similar chemistry, possibly reawakening its life-bearing potential. - Author: Buzz Aldrin

#99. A footman approached bearing a tray of sparkling wine. Lord Sheffield motioned the footman away before he could offer them a glass of champagne. "Forgive me," he murmured in Amelia's ear. "I cannot wait another moment to have you in my arms. - Author: Erica Ridley

#100. Some officers of his acquaintance had barked and yelled and shouted. He had always found it more effective to speak low and quiet, enunciating clearly and precisely as if to an idiot child, bearing down with an icy stare. That way he had found the implied menace to be unmistakable. - Author: Lee Child