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“The most upsetting thing is that the US is a leader in the world, and if they don't sign, then how do you expect to convince Russian and China and Iran, Pakistan, all these other countries, to sign? They simply won't. (The US government) feels it's against their constitutional right to bear arms, or they've said that it's needed in North and South Korea, on the border. I don't think any of these are good enough excuses for the damage.”

“He who has realized love for God in his heart is tireless in his pursuit of the Lord his God, and bears every hardship, reproach and insult nobly, never thinking the least evil of anyone.”

Thinking Heart Christian Evil Lord Bears Pursuit God Love Insult Orthodox Hardship Orthodox Christian Reproach Insulted

Author:Maximus the Confessor

“We insist on producing a farm surplus, but think the government should find a profitable market for it. We overindulge in speculation, but ask the government to prevent panics. Now the only way to hold the government entirely responsible for conditions is to give up our liberty for a dictatorship. If we continue the more reasonable practice of managing our own affairs we must bear the burdens of our own mistakes. A free people cannot shift their responsibility for them to the government. Self-government means self-reliance.”

Source: Calvin Coolidge says: dispatches written by former-president Coolidge and syndicated to newspapers in 1930-1931 : gathered for issuance in book form on the one-hundredth anniversary of Mr. Coolidge's birth, 4 July 1972

“And in an issue with this kind of concern to a committee that bears the oversight responsibility, I think you can see that we're very dismayed about it .”

Thinking Kind Responsibility Issues Bears Concern Committees Oversight Dismayed

Author:Dianne Feinstein

“The world will see many fashions of art and most of the world will follow the fashions and make none. These cults - these 'movements' - are absolutely necessary, or at any rate their causes are, for somewhere in their centres are the ones who bear the Idea, the ones who have questioned, 'But what do I think?' and 'How shall I say it best?”

Thinking World Art Ideas Causes Fashion Movement Bears Rate Centre Cult

Author:Robert Henri

“Our minds work like a garden. It is fertile ground that accepts any and everything we plant. Good or evil, constructive or destructive, our lives will bear the fruit of the seeds we plant in our minds.”

Thinking Mind Evil Accepting Our Lives Bears Garden Plant Fruit Seeds Destructive Constructive Fertile Fertile Ground

Book:Acts Of Faith: Daily Meditations for People of Colour

Source: Acts Of Faith: Daily Meditations for People of Colour

“I'm a collector - I collect everything. I can't throw things away. For some reason I think I'm going to need tiny wooden teddy bears with their arms hacked off.”

Thinking Needs I Can Reason Arms Bears Tiny Collectors Teddy Hacked Teddy Bear

Author:Anjelica Huston

“I can't bear the thought of living an entire lifetime on this planet and not getting to do all the things I dream of doing, simply because they aren't allowed. I don't think it will ever be enough, this version of freedom, until it is all-inclusive. I don't think I can be happy unless I'm truly independent.”

Thinking I Can Enough Dream Planets Bears Independent Lifetime Versions

Book:Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots

Source: Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots

“When you have committed an action that you cannot bear to think about, that causes you to writhe in retrospect, do not seek to evade the memory: make yourself relive it, confront it repeatedly over and over, till finally, you will discover, through sheer repetition it loses its power to pain you. It works, I guarantee you, this sure-fire guilt-eradicator, like a homeopathic medicine - like in small doses applied to like. It works, but I am not sure that it is a good thing.”

Thinking Action Pain Causes Loses Memories Fire Bears Medicine Guilt Good Things Committed Not Sure Guarantees Sheer Repetition Dose Retrospect

Author:Mary McCarthy

“We cannot know whether we love God, although there may be strong reason for thinking so; but there can be no doubt about whether we love our neighbor or not. Be sure that, in proportion as you advance in fraternal charity, you are increasing your love of God, for His Majesty bears so tender an affection for us that I cannot doubt He will repay our love for others by augmenting, and in a thousand different ways, that which we bear for Him.”

Thinking Knows Way May Different Reason Strong Doubt Bears Thousand Charity Affection Neighbor God Love Different Ways No Doubt Proportion Our Love Majesty Fraternal

Author:Teresa of Avila

“Never think of any right effort as being fruitless. All right effort bears fruit, whether we see the results or not.”

Thinking Results Effort Bears Fruit

Book:Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

“The thing about special teams - and I think football in general - is sometimes you eat the bear and sometimes the bear eats you.”

Thinking Sometimes Team Special Football Bears Special Teams

Author:John Harbaugh

“The National Rifle Association is always arguing that the Second Amendment determines the right to bear arms. But I think it really is the people's right to bear arms in a militia. The NRA thinks it protects their right to have Teflon-coated bullets. But that's not the original understanding.”

People Thinking Understanding Arms Bears Protect Originals Determine Arguing Association Amendments Bullets Second Amendment Rifles Right To Bear Arms Militia Nra Teflon Always Arguing

Author:Robert Bork

“It is rather an unpleasant fact, that the ugliest and awkwardest of brute animals have the greatest resemblance to man: the monkey and the bear. The monkey is ugly too (so we think) because he is like man--as the bear is awkward, because the cumbrous action of its huge paws seems to be a preposterous imitation of the motions of human hands. Men and apes are the only animals that have hairs on the under eye-lid. Let kings know this.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Charles and Mary Lamb (Illustrated)

“It requires a strong mind to bear up against several languages. Some persons have learnt so many, that they have ceased to think in any one.”

Thinking Mind Persons Language Strong Bears Strong Mind

Book:Essays and aphorisms

Source: Essays and aphorisms

“I think those who choose to find joy in serving others, those who choose to find their voice, to pursue their vocation and to act on their vision oftentimes have to sacrifice much.It's almost like a crucifixion in terms of the cross you have to bear.”

Thinking Joy Voice Term Vision Sacrifice Bears Crosses Pursue Serving Vocation Serving Others Crucifixion

Author:Cornel West

“The world is a mess and I want to laugh because all I can think is how horrible and beautiful it is, that our eyes blur the truth when we can't bear to see it.”

Thinking World Want I Can Eye Beautiful Laughing Bears Horrible Mess Blur

Book:Ignite Me

Source: Ignite Me

“I don't reject the concept of preemptive war. I'm a mother of five. I have five grandchildren. And I always say: Think of a lioness. Think of a mother bear. You come anywhere near our cubs, you're dead. And so, in terms of any threat to our country, people have to know we'll be there to preemptively strike. But what the president [Bush] did was, on the basis of no real intelligence for an imminent threat to our country, chose to go into a war for reasons that are still unknown to us.”

“It's interesting how many science fiction writers get going when they are very young. I was on a program with Greg Bear and he mentioned that he had gotten started writing when he was eight. And I began writing when I was 10. I think we're influenced by the stuff, we find it and we love it and we're influenced by it....I know I collected my first rejection slip when I was 13, and I went on collecting them for a long time after that.”

Thinking Knows Writing Firsts Long Young Stuff Interesting Fiction Bears Long Time Program Science Fiction Eight Rejection Slips Collecting Fiction Writers

Author:Octavia Butler

“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.”

People Thinking Needs Writing Littles Character Stories Games Differences Bears Elements Hunger Dramatic Good Story Good Character

Author:Suzanne Collins

“I can't bear fishing. I think people look like fools sitting watching a line hour after hour-or else throwing and throwing, and catching nothing.”

People Thinking Looks I Can Hours Lines Sea Fool Bears Sitting Rivers Fishes Boat Lakes Fishing Throwing Catching After Hours

Book:Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

“To a sprinter, the hundred-yard dash is over in three seconds, not nine or ten. The first 'second' is when you come out of the blocks. The next is when you look up and take your first few strides to attain gain position. By that time the race is actually about half over. The final 'second' - the longest slice of time in the world for an athlete - is that last half of the race, when you really bear down and see what you're made of. It seems to take an eternity, yet is all over before you can think what's happening.”

Source: I Have Changed

“We must have faith during the period of our grief. We think that our afflictions will be greater than we can bear, but we do not know the strength of our own hearts, nor the power of God. He knows all. He knows every folding of the heart and also the extent of the sorrow that he inflicts. What we think will overwhelm us entirely only subdues and conquers our pride. Our renewed spirit rises from its subjugation with a celestial strength and consolation.”

Thinking Knows Heart Spirit Grief Greater Pride Bears Periods Sorrow Conquer Have Faith Affliction Consolation Celestial Power Of God Subjugation Folding

Author:Francois Fenelon

“The word "utopia" has two meanings. It means both "good place" and "nowhere". That's the way it should be. The happiest places, I think, are the ones that reside just this side of paradise. The perfect person would be insufferable to live with; likewise, we wouldn't want to live in the perfect place, either. "A life time of happiness! No man could bear it: It would be hell on earth," wrote George Bernard Shaw, in his play Man and Superman.”

“I cannot bear that you / Should think me faithful, when I am untrue.”

Thinking Should Bears Faithful Infidelity Untrue

Author:Vita Sackville-West

“Vain-glorious man, when fluttering wind does blow In his light wing's, is lifted up to sky; The scorn of-knighthood and true chivalry. To think, without desert of gentle deed And noble worth, to be advanced high, Such praise is shame, but honour, virtue's meed, Doth bear the fairest flower in honourable seed.”

Source: Books I and II of the Faerie queene: the mutability cantos, and selections from the minor poetry

“The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.”

Thinking Poor Rich Bears Weak Fatigue

Author:William Cowper

“Death is easier to bear without thinking of it, than the thought of death without peril.”

Thinking Death Bears Easier Peril Thoughts Of Death

Book:Thoughts

Source: Thoughts

“I love Death because he breaks the human pattern and frees us from pleasures too prolonged as well as from the pains of this world. It is pleasant, too, to remember that Death lies in our hands; he must come if we call him. ... I think if there were no death, life would be more than flesh and blood could bear.”

Ifs Thinking World Humans Wells Hands Would Be Pain Remember Lying Pleasure Break Blood This World Bears Patterns Flesh Pleasant Life Death Flesh And Blood Love Death

Author:Stevie Smith

“Never think that wars are irrational catastrophes: they happen when wrong ways of thinking and living bring about intolerable situations ... the root causes of conflict are usually to be found in some wrong way of life in which all parties have acquiesced, and for which everybody must, to some extent, bear the blame.”

Thinking Way War Happens Found Causes Party Situation Bears Conflict Roots Blame Irrational Catastrophe Way Of Thinking Wrong Way Root Cause Causes Of Conflict

Author:Dorothy L. Sayers

“I think it's just fear of death. I can't bear to go to sleep. There's very little, you know, between an entrepreneur and a crazy person.”

Thinking Knows Littles Persons I Can Sleep Crazy Bears Entrepreneur Fear Of Death Going To Sleep Crazy Person

Author:Anita Roddick

“But that's what happens when you allow a nice person to write a news paper serial for you; now the world thinks you're nice, too, which is silly in the extreme. Sadly, it's a burden that you must bear.”

Thinking World Writing Persons Happens Nice Bears Paper News Burden Extremes Silly Serials Nice Person

Book:The Taming of a Scottish Princess

Source: The Taming of a Scottish Princess

“It was the joy of your life to know Clark Gable. He was everything good you could think of. He had delicious humor, he had great compassion, he was always a fine old teddy bear. In no way was he conscious of his good looks, as were most other men in pictures at that time. Clark was very unactorly.”

Thinking Knows Men Way Looks Joy Compassion Fine Bears Conscious Delicious Looking Good Teddy Teddy Bear

Author:Joan Blondell

“The greatest human virtue bears no proportion to human vanity. We always think ourselves better than we are, and are generally desirous that others should think us still better than we think ourselves. To praise us for actions or dispositions which deserve praise is not to confer a benefit, but to pay a tribute. We have always pretensions to fame which, in our own hearts, we know to be disputable, and which we are desirous to strengthen by a new suffrage; we have always hopes which we suspect to be fallacious, and of which we eagerly snatch at every confirmation.”

Source: The Wisdom of the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler

“I think I can say without fear of contradiction that we could generate sorties at an extremely high level and bring very, very effective air power to bear in support of our troops.”

Thinking I Can Levels Support Air Bears Contradiction Troops High Level Our Troops Air Power

Author:Bill Vaughan

“I was never a big fashion person, and so I'm sure I wore whatever. I was growing, and so I just wore whatever clothes that weren't that expensive and made sense at the time. But I'm sure that I look back and say, 'What was I thinking?' My adolescence was more in the '80s, and that's more my cross to bear.”

Thinking Looks Persons Made Bigs Growing Fashion Bears Clothes Crosses Expensive Adolescence 80s Crosses To Bear

Author:Vince Vaughn

“You really can't do a remake. I mean, 'King Kong' needed its turn to be remade. It needed an update. But the 'Bad News Bears,' or 'The Shaggy D.A.,' those are classic movies. I think they did a good job of remaking them, but it's just not the same thing. Nobody can top Tatum O'Neal. It just isn't the same.”

Thinking Mean Jobs Turns Bears Kings Needed News Classic Good Job Bad News Remakes Updates King Kong Classic Movie

Author:Carly Schroeder

“With big folks, either people think you look mean or it's more of a jolly Santa Claus, 'Oh, he's just a pudgy little teddy bear pillow.'”

People Thinking Looks Mean Littles Bigs Bears Folks Santa Pillow Santa Claus Teddy Jolly Teddy Bear

Author:The Notorious B.I.G.

“People think of black English as ungrammatical, but it bears the same relationship to standard English as contemporary Hebrew does to ancient Hebrew.”

People Thinking Doe Black Bears Standards Ancient Contemporary Hebrew Standard English

Author:John H. McWhorter

“Well, I think the way you feel as a teenager stays with you, forever. I really believe that. And we try to change and we hope that we change, but we don't really in big ways, in serious ways. I think the personality is formed at that time, for the good and for the bad. ... We all want to grow up and move on and appear to be different to people. And we want people to see us in a different way. But, I don't know, I think the personality is very, very strongly cemented, and we just bear whatever shortcomings we have and learn to live with it.”

People Thinking Knows Way Want Feels Trying Believe Wells Different Bigs Moving Grows Forever Growing Up Serious Personality Bears Teenager Different Ways Very Strong Shortcomings

Author:Steven Morrissey

“I think that I was slightly naive. I thought that if I showed people the beauty of the Arctic and the beauty of the polar bears that they would care so much that they would stand up and try to make a change.”

People Ifs Thinking Trying Care Bears Naive Making Changes Arctic Polar Bears

Author:Lewis Gordon

“The less you think you are, the more you bear. And if you think you are nothing, you bear everything.”

Ifs Thinking Bears

Author:Antonio Porchia

“When I see someone who reads something of mine and draws something out of it that's very different from my perspective, I think that's actually cool. Sometimes it's worrisome when you feel they badly misinterpret it, but it just says that they're thinking, and they're bringing their own interpretation to bear on it. [...] That's part of the wonderful thing about putting words into the world, and if I was worried about that, I couldn't be a writer.”

Ifs Thinking World Feels Different Sometimes Wonderful Mines Perspective Bears Draws Worried Interpretation Wonderful Things

Author:Malcolm Gladwell

“The great pines stand at a considerable distance from each other. Each tree grows alone, murmurs alone, thinks alone. They do notintrude upon each other. The Navajos are not much in the habit of giving or of asking help. Their language is not a communicative one, and they never attempt an interchange of personality in speech. Over their forests there is the same inexorable reserve. Each tree has its exalted power to bear.”

Thinking Giving Helping Language Grows Tree Personality Bears Habit Speech Asking Distance Forests Reserves Exalted Inexorable Interchange

Book:The Song of the Lark

Source: The Song of the Lark

“Think what cowards men would be if they had to bear children. Women are altogether a superior species.”

Ifs Thinking Men Children Would Be Women Bears Species Superiors Coward

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“It is unheard-of, uncivilized barbarism that any woman should still be forced to bear such monstrous torture. It should be remedied. It should be stopped. It is simply absurd that, with our modern science, painless childbirth does not exist as a matter of course.... I tremble with indignation when I think ofthe unspeakable egotism and blindness of men of science who permit such atrocities when they can be remedied.”

“Any refusal to recognize reality, for any reason whatever, has disastrous consequences. There are no evil thoughts except one: the refusal to think. Don't ignore your own desires.... Don't sacrifice them. Examine their cause. There is a limit to how much you should have to bear.”

Thinking Should Reason Reality Desire Evil Causes Sacrifice Bears Limits Consequence Should Have Refusal Evil Thoughts

Book:Ayn Rand Novel Collection

Source: Ayn Rand Novel Collection

“On the whole, yes, I would rather be the Chief Justice of the United States, and a quieter life than that which becomes at the White House is more in keeping with the temperament, but when taken into consideration that I go into history as President, and my children and my children's children are the better placed on account of that fact, I am inclined to think that to be President well compensates one for all the trials and criticisms he has to bear and undergo.”

“I can't be a part of the problem. I hate the idea of a label just as much as anyone else but I'm with who I'm with, I love who I love and I'm if not a better actress than I was yesterday and my personal life should have no effect on that. I think that the injustice of people staying in the closet is more than I can bear with a clear conscience and I couldn't sleep at night if I was a part of that problem, if I was part of the lies.”

“Action will come. Fill yourselves with the ideal; whatever you do, think well on it. All your actions will be magnified, transformed, deified, by the very power of the thought. If matter is powerful, thought is omnipotent. Bring this thought to bear upon your life, fill yourselves with the thought of your almightiness, your majesty, and your glory.”

Ifs Thinking Wells Matter Action Powerful Bears Glory Ideals Transformed Majesty Omnipotent Powerful Thoughts

Book:Practical Vedanta Philosophy

Source: Practical Vedanta Philosophy