#bearing

Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which it is found, whether the poem, the manner of a god, the bearing of a man. It is not a dress. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

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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

An actor is totally vulnerable. His total personality is exposed to critical judgment - his intellect, his bearing, his diction, his whole appearance. In short, his ego. ↗

— Alec Guinness

#appearance #bearing #critical #diction #ego

Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#child-bearing #dear #deity #sovereign

With each new book, the march of our national history takes a step forward. When one is present at a book launch, one is bearing witness to the birth of a new body of ideas, to the coming into being of another testimony of history. ↗

— Ibrahim Babangida

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People are realizing that color has no bearing on what's known as brotherhood. ↗

— Omar Epps

#brotherhood #color #known #people #realizing

We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable. ↗

— John Updike

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Public truth telling is a form of recovery, especially when combined with social action. Sharing traumatic experiences with others enables victims to reconstruct repressed memory, mourn loss, and master helplessness, which is trauma's essential insult. And, by facilitating reconnection to ordinary life, the public testimony helps survivors restore basic trust in a just world and overcome feelings of isolation. But the talking cure is predicated on the existence of a community willing to bear witness. 'Recovery can take place only within the context of relationships,' write Judith Herman. 'It cannot occur in isolation. ↗

— Lawrence N. Powell

#healing #holocaust #recovery #relationships #survival

I'm sure everything has a bearing on what I'm doing. My family is a lower-middle-class family, there's lots of children, seven brothers, two sisters grew up together, fighting with each other, went to school. My mother went to school up to 4th grade. My father went to school up to 8th grade. So that's about the education level we had in the family. ↗

— Muhammad Yunus

#bearing #brothers #children #class family #doing

Honesty is the most single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product. ↗

— Ed McMahon

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