#bearing

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #bearing




The Lord's mercy often rides to the door of our heart upon the black horse of affliction.


Charles H. Spurgeon


#cross-bearing #mercy #trials #horses

The word knight, which originally meant boy or servant, was particularly applied to a young man after he was admitted to the privilege of bearing arms.


Thomas Bulfinch


#after #applied #arms #bearing #boy

No one hit home runs the way Babe did. They were something special. They were like homing pigeons. The ball would leave the bat, pause briefly, suddenly gain its bearings, then take off for the stands.


Lefty Gomez


#ball #bat #bearings #briefly #did

It seems to me morally a decent society will try to take some of the increased benefit and use that to alleviate the pain of the few who are bearing the cost that made it possible.


Tim Bishop


#bearing #benefit #cost #decent #few

I cannot give any scientist of any age better advice than this: the intensity of a conviction that a hypothesis is true has no bearing over whether it is true or not.


Peter Medawar


#age #any #bearing #better #cannot

Vous travaillez pour l'armee, madame?' (You are working for the army?), a Frenchwoman said to me early in the Vietnam war, on hearing I had three sons.


Adrienne Rich


#childbearing #children #motherhood #right-wing-politics #war

It was a pity that there was no radar to guide one across the trackless seas of life. Every man had to find his own way, steered by some secret compass of the soul. And sometimes, late or early, the compass lost its power and spun aimlessly on its bearings. Alan Bishop


Arthur C. Clarke


#compass #direction #life #life

A babe at the breast is as much pleasure as the bearing is pain.


Marion Zimmer Bradley


#bearing #much #pain #pleasure

Beware of geeks bearing formulas.


Warren Buffett


#beware #formulas #geeks

Behind the man is the Tree of Life, bearing twelve fruits, and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is behind the woman; the serpent is twining round it.


Arthur E. Waite


#behind #evil #fruits #good #good and evil