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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• My favorite animal is a polar bear. They're going extinct, and I really don't want that to happen.

  

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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.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
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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
  • Equal
  • Bear
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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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• Over the course of history, the people who are not scared go into the woods and are mauled by a bear, are not going to survive.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • People
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  • Bear

• 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
  • Learn
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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
  • Art
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  • Bear

• For who can bear to feel himself forgotten?

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Feel
  • Forgotten
  • Bear

• 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
  • Trouble
  • 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
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• 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
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• 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
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  • Bear

• People like passion in politics.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • People
  • Passion
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• I threw a big-ass party. It turned out a bit different from Perry's [in That's Ordinary World], but it was pretty nuts. It wasn't me that threw it though, my wife threw me a surprise party. So [unlike Selma Blair's character] she didn't forget.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • World
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• I try to make time for reading each night. In addition to the usual newspapers and magazines, I make it a priority to read at least one newsweekly from cover to cover. If I were to read what intrigues me- say, the science and business sections - then I would finish the magazine the same person I was when I started. So I read it all.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Time
  • Newspapers
  • Magazines

• Asylums are nothing more than gardens of human cabbages, of miserable, grotesque, repugnant human beings watered with the fertilizer of injections.

  

  Antonio Lobo Antunes
  • Gardens
  • Fertilizer
  • Cabbages

• I sail, scuba dive, play football, basketball.

  

  Casper Van Dien
  • Play
  • Football
  • inspirational

• 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