#bear

People go to the zoo and they like the lion because it's scary. And the bear because it's intense, but the monkey makes people laugh. ↗

— Lorne Michaels

#because #go #intense #laugh #like

To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable. ↗

— Yannick Noah

#brothel #had #me #part #payment

Some days you go bear hunting and you get eaten. Some days you come home with a nice rug to roll around on, and bear steaks. What they don't tell you as a kid is that sometimes you get the rug and steaks, but you also get some nice scars to go with them. As a child you don't understand that you can win, but that's it's not always worth the price. Once you understand and accept that possibility you become a real grown up, and the world becomes a much more serious place. Not less fun, but once you realize what can go wrong, it's a lot scarier to go hunting "bears". ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#facebook #growing-up #lessons-learned #life #life

And ne'er shall the sons of Columbia be slaves, while the earth bears a plant, or the sea rolls its waves. ↗

— Robert Treat Paine

#columbia #earth #plant #rolls #sea

Kissing a man with a beard is a lot like going to a picnic. You don't mind going through a little bush to get there! ↗

— Minnie Pearl

#bush #get #going #kissing #like

Why do otherwise sane, competent, strong men, men who can wrestle bears or raid corporations, shrink away in horror at the thought of washing a dish or changing a diaper? ↗

— Frank Pittman

#bears #changing #competent #corporations #diaper

The mob is a sort of bear; while your ring is through its nose, it will even dance under your cudgel; but should the ring slip, and you lose your hold, the brute will turn and rend you. ↗

— Jane Porter

#brute #cudgel #dance #even #hold

Life does not stand still for families and local communities when our brave men and women are deployed, but we can make their time apart more bearable by recognizing their sacrifice and fulfilling our commitments to them. ↗

— Mark Pryor

#bearable #brave #brave men #commitments #communities

Imperialism was genuinely popular among Athenians who would expect to share in its profits, even if only indirectly and collectively, and not to have to bear its burdens. ↗

— J. M. Roberts

#athenians #bear #burdens #collectively #even

For me, the moral difficulties lie in the continual pressure brought to bear on my friends and immediate family, pressure which is not directed against me personally but which at the same time is all around me. ↗

— Andrei Sakharov

#around #bear #brought #continual #difficulties