Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

Some are cursed with the fullness of satiety; and how can they bear the ills of life when its very pleasures fatigue them?

David Tang

The image we have of a famous person often bears no relation to them.

Caitlin Thomas

Love can bear anything better than ridicule.

We still tend to think of mountain lions and bears and wolves as being endangered, and in some parts of the country they are,

We're in a long-term sideways type of market, a consolidation market, typified by alternating cyclical bull and bear markets lasting a year or two each,

Gustave Flaubert

Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.

Athol Fugard

I've always sensed for myself an obligation to bear witness to my time.

We always bear in mind the king's concern of peace and stability. But the rally to Government House, which will be peaceful, will continue.

Dan Mullen

Whenever you capture information, there should be checks and balances. It's certainly important to bear security in mind whenever you're working with databases.

Robert Redford

We were at 10,000 feet in Utah and I was running out of gas. I was in boots that were leather-soled. The bear was closing in. Now, he's supposed to be playing. Once I started to run, he got really excited. Pretty soon he was chasing me. And I said if this guy gets me, his idea of play is going to be the end of me. So I threw the rifle out and got on that tree so fast. Now, once it was done, I mean, I was sweating bullets. I said, not again. Not again.

Chaim Potok

Seeds must be sown everywhere. Only some will bear fruit. But there would not be the fruit from the few had the many not been sown

We believe that consumer spending is going to bear the brunt of higher energy prices that we have seen leading up to and immediately following Hurricane Katrina as discretionary spending is curtailed.

Whether we're a sport hunter or a bear viewer or we're Timothy Treadwell, it's all the same to the bear,

Flip Saunders

Whether we play well or don't play well come Sunday, will have no bearing on how we've done this season. As I recall, we lost our last couple games in the exhibition season and got off to a pretty good start in the regular season.

When it came to entering mutual-fund orders, Bear Stearns essentially handed the keys to the system over to the hedge funds.

We're going to step in, use our national resources and let them come to bear to reimburse the city.

Kenneth Fisher

Normally, if you have a huge category that leads a bear market all the way down to the bottom - like tech after 2000, or energy in the '80-'82 bear market - you get one quick pop, and then years of lag as we fight the old war.

What they'll determine or what they'll recommend will have a lot bearing on saving cats that might want to migrate north of here.

Jim Kaat

When we flew in from a road trip, my son would be at the airport, and he would gravitate immediately to Earl. Earl just had that teddy bear quality about him.

We grow like flowers, and bear desire, The odor of the human flowers.

We believe this should not lead to the start of a bear market or be considered as the bursting of the bubble.

What's specifically positive about Bear is that they're getting more M&A volume and other non-fixed-income revenue.

John Grahame

We're going to make some corrections. We've got to bear down on our power plays and bury our chances. We've got to capitalize on some of our opportunities and play solid defensively.

Benjamin Franklin

No European who has tasted savage life can afterwards bear to live in our societies.

Benjamin Franklin

He is not well bred, that cannot bear ill breeding in others

Austin Grossman

When you can't bear something but it goes on anyway, the person who survives isn't you anymore; you've changed and become someone else, a new person, the one who did bear it after all.

Yeltsin's delivery during his oath and the fact that he made no speech indicated that he was unwell, but his bearing when he walked to the podium suggested that the illness was not very serious.

Dennis Hastert

Working people are bearing the brunt of the EPA's inaction,

With the hurricane bearing down on Florida, he is taking care of his family. He might still be available. With hurricanes, you never know. It might totally miss Florida, and if that happens, he will be joining us when he can.

We feel that such a possibility is still a long way off, but it is a development that bears watching.

We're getting chances, we just have to be more determined to bear down and turn those chances into goals. They can't block them all. We just have to find a way.

We're hoping that President Bush will bring all his influences to bear ... particularly on Sinn Fein, who we believe have the power to deliver the murderers up and to get justice for Robert.

(This) suggests a sustainable upturn with firms becoming increasingly keen to take on more staff and bear the extra cost burden.