Bear Quotes

• I do not accept being a prisoner of fear. Of Communism, of fascism. That, one can bear. But of one's fear. No. Never.

  

  Adam Michnik
  • Fear
  • Communism
  • Bear

• I like bears. I like bear people. I like bear-type men.

  

  Parker Posey
  • People
  • Men
  • Bear

• 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
  • Chicken
  • Kissed
  • Go On

• 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
  • Glory
  • Bear

• I'm not a flying fan. I can't bear it.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Flying
  • Fan
  • Bear

• The right to keep and bear arms is a right that Kansans hold dear. The people of Kansas have repeatedly and overwhelmingly reaffirmed their commitment to protecting this fundamental right.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • People
  • Commitment
  • Bear

• Our seniors' retirement should never rely on the bull of political promises or the bear of the market.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • Political
  • Retirement
  • Bear

• Distracting a politician from governing is like distracting a bear from eating your baby.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Baby
  • Eating
  • Bear

• Let all who build beware The load, the shock, the pressure Material can bear. So, when the buckled girder Lets down the grinding span, The blame of loss, or murder, Is laid upon the man. Not on the Stuff - the Man!

  

  Rudyard Kipling
  • Stuff
  • Build
  • Blame

• We have our dreams because without them we could not bear the truth.

  

  Erich Maria Remarque
  • Truth
  • Dreams
  • Bear

• Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Joy
  • Sorrow
  • Bear

• And these things are pretty much foundational: thou shall not kill, steal, bear false witness. All these things are embedded into the laws we enjoy in our nation.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Pretty
  • Enjoy
  • Nation

• Amiri Baraka went to Howard. Lucille Clifton went to Howard. Ossie Davis went to Howard. And I was aware of that when I was there. Charles Drew went to Howard. Thurgood Marshall went to the law school. Being aware of that and having all of that brought to bear, again, it's one of those things that I can't really separate from my career as a writer.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • School
  • Career
  • Law

• There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.

  

  Moliere
  • Praise
  • Bear
  • Pocket

• If you're going to be a bear, be a grizzly.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Bear
  • Going To Be
  • Grizzly

• Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Reality
  • Very
  • Bear

• 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

• Woe unto him that is never alone, and cannot bear to be alone.

  

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton
  • Alone
  • Bear

• The right to bear arms? What about the right to live?

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Live
  • Right
  • Arms

• If you can't bear what's happening to the natural world, if you can't bear the way we treat each other; if you can't bear wars, you just can't bear the whole idea of war, which is possibly unavoidable. But still, you resist it. Because you just hate our treating each other that way and causing that suffering.

  

  W. S. Merwin
  • World
  • War
  • Hate

• People are not usually deprived of their liberties all at once, but gradually, by one encroachment after another, as it is found they are disposed to bear them.

  

  Jonathan Mayhew
  • Bear
  • Liberties
  • Deprived

• Coming down off the trail, I am lost in my own thoughts and unprepared when a bear chugs across the path just before it gives out on the gravel road. I am so distracted that I keep walking towards the bear. I only stop when it rears, stands on hind legs, and stares at me, sensitive nose pressed into the air, weak eyes searching. I have never been this close to a wild bear before, but I am not frightened. There is no menace in its stance; it is not even curious. The bear seems to know who or what I am. The bear is not impressed.

  

  Louise Erdrich
  • Lost
  • Stop
  • Eyes

• They leave when it’s over, exeunt, pursued by a bear with an empty porridge bowl.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Leave
  • Over
  • Bowl

• I couldn't bear to end up like Elvis Presley in Las Vegas with all those housewives and old ladies coming in with their handbags.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Up
  • Vegas
  • Las Vegas

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