#bear

If you look over the course of a hundred years, I think the gradual erosion of the consensus that's held our country together is probably more serious than a few bearded terrorists who fly into buildings. ↗

— Pat Robertson

#buildings #consensus #country #course #erosion

Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#cracked #crude #dance #human #kettle

Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory. ↗

— William Barclay

#bear #endurance #glory #hard #hard thing

Could we forbear dispute, and practise love, We should agree as angels do above. ↗

— Edmund Waller

#agree #angels #could #dispute #forbear

Bear Valley is the hidden treasure of the Sierra. ↗

— Lloyd Bridges

#hidden #sierra #treasure #valley

If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#equal #happy #horrible #life #lose

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. ↗

— Carlo Collodi

#bear #become #bigger #boy #empty

The condition of being an actress can be unbearable. ↗

— Julie Delpy

#being #condition #unbearable

A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#despair #drive #equanimity #father #him

Beauty doesn't need ornaments. Softness can't bear the weight of ornaments. ↗

— Munshi Premchand

#bear #need #ornaments #softness #weight