Only free people have an incentive to be virtuous. Only people who bear the consequences of their own acts will care about those consequences and try to learn from their mistakes.
The gospel of Jesus Christ is all about people. It’s about leaving the ninety and nine and going into the wilderness after those who are lost. It’s about bearing one another’s burdens, with the ultimate burden anyone can bear being walking through this life without light.
Your political reputation affects how likely allies are to trust you, and what kind of deals they’ll offer at the negotiating table. There’s also some emotional response in there, so factions do bear grudges. Just like the real thing.
Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.
Fozzie Bear has so many bear puns in this script – like, ‘Trac is grizzly!’ ‘This is unbearable!’ It’s the greatest.
Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.
Now the relation which, in the sphere of nature, being and semblance or sensation bear to one another in this antithesis, is the same as that which in ethics exists between good and pleasure or feeling.
What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.
We always need to bear in mind that when it comes to blood transfusion, it’s the person that’s receiving the blood who takes the risk, not the person donating it.
I’m for the constitutional right to bear arms. I’m a hunter, and so is my son.
We must also be permitted to bear in mind that evolution, though it may explain everything else, cannot explain itself.
Make the financial industry pay for its mistakes. That’s the idea behind the best of the Obama administration’s reform proposals: If banks issue securities backed by mortgages, say, then require them to hold some of that paper so that they will bear some of the losses.
Because the world is in economic recession, which worsened since this drama happened, and our country will bear the burden of all of these consequences.
Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare.
The whole point of the kingdom of God is Jesus has come to bear witness to the true truth, which is nonviolent. When God wants to take charge of the world, he doesn’t send in the tanks. He sends in the poor and the meek.
Wealth and vegetation go together, and that exacerbates environmental injustice. The poor bear the burden of degraded environments.
Mickey and the Bear’ was the scariest choice I’ve made in my career because I feel pretty safe in the world of comedy and everything else, but I don’t feel safe in deep, dark, scary roles that I took on like ‘Mickey and the Bear.’
It drove me as a kid. I couldn’t bear the idea that I wasn’t the smartest. Then I got put in a B stream for four years at my school. And that was the making of me in a weird way.
I don’t do the victim mode. I don’t do blame. I can’t bear that.
I have always been interested in garbage: What it says about us. What in there embarrasses us, and what we can’t bear to part with. Where it goes and how much of it there is. How it endures. What it might be like to work with it every day.
Secular cycles are the long periods – as long as decades – that come to define each market era. These cycles alternate between long-term bull and bear markets.
Keep both heart and hand in your own possession, till you see good reason to part with them; and if such an occasion should never present itself, comfort your mind with this reflection: that, though in single life your joys may not be very many, your sorrows, at least, will not be more than you can bear.
Tragically, the effort to make America and the world safer and to defend freedom around the world is not without an enormous cost to this Nation in terms primarily of lost lives and those who bear the scars and the wounds of war, and their families who must bear these losses.
The only stuff I don’t like are Broadway musicals. I hate them. I don’t even like to talk about it. I can’t bear musicals.
A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart.
There is no training, classroom or otherwise, that can prepare for trading the last third of a move, whether it’s the end of a bull market or the end of a bear market.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
In falling markets, there is nothing that has not happened before. The bear or pessimist sees only the past, which imprisons the wretched financial soul in eternal circles of boom and bust and boom again.
What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one’s faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one’s memories.
I’ve had many nicknames over the years: V, Nessa, Nessy Poo, Nessy Bear and Van. Only my parents call me Van, though, and I hate it. I get embarrassed.
I loved all that riot-grrl scene and Nation of Ulysses and Bikini Kill and Huggy Bear. I loved it. It was the moment sort of first growing up where bands had stopped looking like roadies.
Hyde-Smith was sent to Washington because she believes in empowering the American worker by reducing taxes and cutting unnecessary red tape – and because she’s committed to preserving your Second Amendment right to bear arms.
Songwriting isn’t a choice. You’re either called upon to bear the burden, or you’re not. It’s not all fun and games.
As a kid, I was a dancer in Dick Whittington, Snow White and Cinderella. When I was 14, I played Baby Bear. I had a big head on, and you couldn’t see my face. My mum was very disappointed.
Those who will bear much, shall have much to bear.
A boy’s appetite grows very fast, and in a few moments the queer, empty feeling had become hunger, and the hunger grew bigger and bigger, until soon he was as ravenous as a bear.
Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.
Tel Aviv is new, built on the sand dunes north of Jaffa in the 1890s, about the same time Miami was founded. The cities bear a resemblance in size, site, climate, and architecture, which ranges from the bland to the fancifully bland.
I was christened Edward. My sister gave me the name Bear when I was a week old and it has stuck.
Aged six, I sailed from South Africa to England by steam ship with my family. It was a three-week journey. I remember crying on my birthday when I didn’t get the enormous teddy bear that was for sale in the ship’s shop but, aside from that, I had a wonderful time.
We must permit the youth of the land who would bear arms to decide whether or not there should be war.
For whatever trauma came with service in tough circumstances, we should take what we learned – take our post-traumatic growth – and, like past generations coming home, bring our sharpened strengths to bear, bring our attitude of gratitude to bear.
I love a bathroom and fluffy bathrobe. Bear Grylls and camping… that’s not me!
There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.
Billionaire Michael Bloomberg, among the world’s richest men, believes his personal fortune can erase the liberty of every American who would exercise the right to keep and bear arms. He plans liquidation of our rights a step-at-a-time – spending millions of dollars of his bottomless personal fortune at a time.
I can’t bear living in this huge beautiful world and not try to imitate it as best I can.
Market discipline can only limit moral hazard to the extent that debt and equity holders believe that, in the event of distress, they will bear costs.
You know why kids don’t eat fruits? Because fruits don’t have any mascots. Every sugary cereal has a bear or a rabbit going , ‘Kid! Eat it! Eat it, eat it, eat it!’ You’re a kid, you’re like, ‘I got to get that cereal.’
Judging the political climate in my state by walking around lefty Ann Arbor is like a polar bear judging global warming by staring at the ice cube beneath its feet.
All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.
Women are hit especially hard in regions of ongoing conflict. Before, during, and after conflict, women bear the brunt of the consequences of war. They are left as the providers and guardians, responsible for rebuilding their country one family at a time.
As a part of the ISO-NE grid, New Hampshire energy policy is connected to the decisions of our regional neighbors. It is critical that New Hampshire’s ratepayers do not bear the burden of the costly policy decisions of Southern New England.
This American right to bear arms with, practically, a Muslim fierceness, sometimes seems as if it must be age-old, an ancient tradition from a tenacious frontier holdover.
A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
