"Whenever I refused to follow my fate, something very hard to bear would happen in my life."
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"my love of water ... is mingled with and almost indistinguishable from a fear of water (I can float in a vertical position - I enter a fugue state - but I cannot bear to bury my face in water)."
"not all bears have their own television series. Some of them are unemployed wild animals."
"It might not be rational, but I am terrified of getting stuck in an elevator with a bear."
"Eyes and Priests Bear no Jests."
"A temperate Diet frees from Diseases; such are seldom ill, but if they are surprised with Sickness, they bear it better, and recover sooner; for most Distempers have their Original from Repletion."
"These scars bear witness but whether to repair or to destruction I no longer know."
"Art isn't anecdote. It's the consciousness we bring to bear in our lives."
"Have courage then: make a virtue of necessity: ask of God, not deliverance from your pains, but strength to bear resolutely, for the love of Him, all that He should please, and as long as He shall please."
"A man can bear a world's contempt when he has that within which says he's worthy. When he contemns himself, there burns the hell."
"I watched The Muppet Movie obsessively. I can still pretty much say a lot of the lines and do a pretty mean Fozzie Bear."
"For entertainment, a party bears no one in as much as those who are not there. "
"Doctors are not servants of their patients, they are traders like everyone else in a free society and they should bear that title proudly considering the crucial importance of the services they offer."
"A languid janitor bears His lantern through colonnades And the architecture swoons."
"You cannot make gross sins look clear: To revenge is no valour, but to bear."
"I bear a charmed life, which must not yield To one of woman born."
"More can I bear than you dare execute."
"I have not always been wrong. History will bear me out, particularly as I shall write that history myself."
"I would rather him to bear patiently with it than to put himself in danger of a greater evil."
"... bear with him as Our Lord bore with His disciples, who gave Him good reason to complain - at least, some of them did. Yet, He allowed them to remain in His company and tried to bring them around gently."