Arthur Helps Quotes

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.

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• Even though I've won numerous titles and an Olympic gold medal, there are still so many faults in my performance that I can honestly hardly bear to watch the videos back.

  

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• Liberal judges tend to be expansive about things like equal protection, while conservatives read more into ones like 'the right to bear arms.'

  

  Adam Cohen
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• I'll fight a bear, but I don't like spiders. I'm not a fan of those.

  

  J. J. Watt
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• I was christened Edward. My sister gave me the name Bear when I was a week old and it has stuck.

  

  Bear Grylls
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• I would love to learn other languages, maybe French? My uncle speaks German so maybe also German? Chinese seems to be too difficult.

  

  Rafael Nadal
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  • Difficult
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• Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
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• For who can bear to feel himself forgotten?

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Feel
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• Bear patiently with a rival.

  

  Ovid
  • Patience
  • Bear
  • Rival

• I am a gummy bear fanatic.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Bear
  • Fanatic
  • Gummy

• You don't often see Bear Grylls in a suit.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • You
  • Bear
  • Often

• The fundamental idea which defines a human being as a Muslim is the declaration of faith: that there is a creator, whom we call God - or Allah, in Arabic - and that the creator is one and single. And we declare this faith by the declaration of faith, where we... bear witness that there is no God but God.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • God
  • Faith
  • Single

• Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • People
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  • Bear

• I speak a number of languages, but none are more beautiful to me than English.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • English
  • Speak
  • Languages

• I never kissed a bear, I've never kissed a goon, but I can shake a chicken in the middle of a room.

  

  Wanda Jackson
  • Bear
  • Chicken
  • Kissed

• speaking in unknown languages, showing a disproportionate physical strength beyond one's natural capacity, the repulsion to sacred things, such as crucifix and prayers, and knowledge of events that have happened far away, in terms of times and places.

  

  Walker Evans
  • Knowledge
  • Unknown
  • Physical

• People are terrible. They can bear anything. Anything! People are hard and brutal. And everyone is disposable. Everyone! That's the lesson.

  

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  • People
  • Lesson
  • Bear

• Man is used to the fact that there are languages which he does not at first understand and which must be learned, but because art is primarily visual he expects that he should get the message immediately and is apt to be affronted if he doesn't.

  

  Edward T. Hall
  • Art
  • Fact
  • Message

• As I pass it, I feel as if I saw a dear old mother, sweet in her weakness, trembling at the approach of her dissolution, but not appealing to me against the inevitable, rather endeavouring to reassure me by her patience, and pointing to a hopeful future.

  

  Thomas Edward Brown
  • Mother
  • Future
  • Sweet

• [A]s if it were not the masterful will which subjugates the forces of nature to be the genii of the lamp... that forces a life-thought into a pregnant word or phrase, and sends it ringing through the ages!

  

  William Mathews
  • Force
  • Pregnant
  • Phrases

• We like the ambiance and atmosphere, and we felt really early that... I mean, of course, Air is an electronic band, but we are doing so many real recordings and the studio is so important for the sound. The acoustics create atmosphere and emotion. Also we want to be independent, we don't want to be obliged to go into a commercial studio and only stay one week because it's really expensive. We want to be able to give a chance to a song, and to spend a lot of time in the studio.

  

  Jean-Benoît Dunckel Air
  • Real
  • Song
  • Giving

• There's always a faster gun.

  

  Dennis Overbye
  • Always
  • Gun
  • Faster

• 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.

  

  Arthur Helps
  • Bear
  • Languages
  • Learnt