Before I lived in America, my husband and I did a Californian road trip. We took a month, starting off in L.A. I love the landscapes of California: one moment you’re in the desert, the next you’re up in the Napa Valley or by the water in Big Bear.
There is an insolence which none but those who themselves deserve contempt can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.
No one likes to admit they are racist or bear prejudices. Nor do they even like to be open and honest when they witness racist behaviour.
We need to bear in mind that we don’t have religious tests in this country, and we also need to remember that some of our best allies in the war against Islamic terrorism are Muslims.
But people who really know me, know that I am not a bad boy at heart… I am a big teddy bear.
I was doing hard personally and did some things I probably shouldn’t have done. We’ve all got our cross to bear.
Data will always bear the marks of its history. That is human history held in those data sets.
My strength is also my endurance. I can bear anything and everything.
Even in my personal life, I can’t bear to have bad feelings.
The boughs that bear most hang lowest.
Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct.
Even though I’ve won numerous titles and an Olympic gold medal, there are still so many faults in my performance that I can honestly hardly bear to watch the videos back.
It is my earnest hope that all parties across the political spectrum will bear Hong Kong’s long-term interests in mind, apply their political wisdom, and seek a consensus through open and rational communication with people of different views.
Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.
I am a proud member of the LGBT community and could never bear the idea that someone could say I was closeted.
They told me I had been sick twelve days, lying like dead all the while, and that Whirlwind Chaser, who was Standing Bear’s uncle and a medicine man, had brought me back to life.
If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same test.
It is close to impossible to find a man who can bear with a woman, who is a notch above or equal to him. Such men are still not there in this world. It is like we will always be facing trouble in our lives.
I’ve seen straight, partnered women explain their decision to stay at home by noting that childcare would have taken too much out of their paycheck – as if this cost was just theirs to bear!
You stand with the least likely to succeed until success is succeeded by something more valuable: kinship. You stand with the belligerent, the surly and the badly behaved until bad behavior is recognized for the language it is: the vocabulary of the deeply wounded and of those whose burdens are more than they can bear.
The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.
The people sometimes who are closest to us are the ones who bear the brunt of our frustration.
To me, the art of music is magnificent, and I cannot bear to see it treated in a shabby way.
As a man, it is true that I will never know what it is like to be a woman. As an organizational psychologist, though, I feel a responsibility to bring evidence to bear on dynamics of work life that affect all of us, not only half of us.
I hope that upon this scorched earth we have planted the seeds of ideas that will bear the fruit of more diverse and inclusive stories that include people of color in the LGBT community.
Please believe that I do this because I am convinced that my illness cannot be helped for any length of time and I cannot bear to be a burden on anyone any longer.
I couldn’t imagine that I’d ever see men as normal people and I could never trust them. I couldn’t bear any human connection with men.
It was always important to me to make sure Pooh came across as much more than a bear of very little brain. There is an innate wisdom there somewhere.
Both Alton Sterling and Philando Castile had guns on them, which is part of their Second Amendment right. It is a part of a culture that is largely protected by special-interest groups like the N.R.A., but the right to bear arms, it seems, only exists for white people.
Writing for children, you do bear a responsibility to not include overt or graphic adult content that they are not ready for and don’t need, or to address adult concepts or themes from an oblique angle or a child’s limited viewpoint, with appropriate context, without being graphic or distressing.
I would leave halfway through a photoshoot, because I couldn’t bear looking at myself or being in front of a camera. I used to feel disgusted in myself.
Love of fame is the last thing even learned men can bear to be parted from.
On my own or with a friend, I’m a shopaholic, and I particularly love the cleaning aisle in the supermarket. But when I’m with my husband, I’m shop shy because he can’t bear it. It always ends up with us making a huge scene on the High Street and then going off in a huff in separate directions.
Whatever seeds each man cultivates will grow to maturity and bear in him their own fruit. If they be vegetative, he will be like a plant.
The bubble, as investing phenomenon, has been well studied ever since the 17th-century tulip bulb frenzy. Its counterpart in bear markets is not well understood.
Those who can bear all can dare all.
All the writing elements are the same. You need to tell a good story… You’ve got good characters… People think there’s some dramatic difference between writing ‘Little Bear’ and the ‘Hunger Games,’ and as a writer, for me, there isn’t.
My ex used to tell me that I needed to lose weight. Bear in mind I have a wheat allergy and I’m a coeliac! I’m constantly ill and it’s like, how the hell do you tell someone like that they need to lose weight off their belly?
I had to weave and play around with a honey bear, you know, and I could wrestle with him a little bit, but there’s no way you can even wrestle a honey bear, let alone a grizzly bear that’s standing ten feet to eleven feet tall! Can you imagine? But it was fascinating to work that close to that kind of animal.
I love physical books, can’t bear to throw them away, and am drowning under the weight of my collection, but I do a lot of my work reading now on my iPad.
It’s not just politicians. Any spokesman for a vested interest is well schooled in how to say what it is they wish to say, which may bear no relation at all to what you’ve asked them.
It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
For years, I’ve gone on television and made the case for the Second Amendment – the right to bear arms. I’ve pointed out that criminals don’t follow gun laws, and I’ve defended the NRA and its members – law-abiding gun owners like me who have nothing to do with mass shootings or violent gun crimes.
You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?
With fiction, I felt like I could bring to bear my full imagination, my entire heart, and so you feel very vulnerable. It’s not your physical life, but it’s everything else, so it felt like a lot was at stake.
We’ve all seen those spoiled little brats that end up being given everything and on their 17th birthday get a Ferrari. That whole thing I just can’t bear it.
There are some things that you see that are hard to talk about. You can’t talk about it. You just bear witness to them.
I can’t bear to see myself even in movies. The feeling is complex. I can’t stand the sight of myself.
The only thing I won’t eat is swede – I can’t bear it.
Today, American women bear an average of 2.2 children that live to adulthood. Across most of Europe, women bear even fewer young.
I can’t bear the thought of retirement, and I haven’t prepared myself for it. I don’t play bridge, and I don’t play golf. I do play tennis, but you can’t do that every day of the week.
So many actors say, ‘Oh, I can’t bear to see myself on screen,’ but it’s not true. Everyone loves to see themselves from a good angle.
Never sell the bear’s skin before one has killed the beast.
I was an athlete in college, and Wall Street likes athletes because they’re very competitive people that are willing to do anything to win. So I got a job at Bear Stearns in the summer of 2007.
What can I tell you about things like Circus of Horrors except that I get killed by the bear?
The right to keep and bear arms is a right that Kansans hold dear. The people of Kansas have repeatedly and overwhelmingly reaffirmed their commitment to protecting this fundamental right.
So, for me, working with larger companies has often been very satisfying, precisely because of the ability of bringing critical mass to bear on a given effort.
There’s always a fine line between ‘What is the market going to bear?’ and, ‘By the way, I’ve got 2,000 unsold seats.’
I don’t think the federal government has any business keeping a list of law-abiding Americans who exercise their constitutional right to keep and bear arms.
