Famous Quotes & Sayings

Voltaire

Let us help one another to bear our burdens.

Robert Jordan

Whether the bear beats the wolf or the wolf beats the bear, the rabbit always loses.

Walter Raleigh

No mortal thing can bear so high a price, But that with mortal thing it may be bought.

Wolfgang Schauble

If you make the state responsible for everything, you shouldn't be surprised when you end up with a state that bears some resemblance to a dictatorship.

Reproductive rights are under siege in Arizona. These bills are going to effectively shut-down a woman's right to bear a child through the use of donated eggs. Legislators need to understand that egg donation provides the best and sometimes only hope of having a child for many couples.

Remember, my son, that any man who is a bear on the future of this country will go broke

Bill Wade

Regardless of what happens in redrafting, the Department of (the) Interior is going to do what it can to get (the Hoffman proposal) in there. It can only be public outcry and influence from Congress that can be brought to bear on this and make the effort to turn it back.

Alexander Medvedev

Preserving such a situation would mean encouraging theft on the path of our gas to Europe. Therefore, all our foreign partners are warned that, while we are doing everything possible to keep up our gas exports to Europe, Ukraine would bear all the responsibility for any possible disruption of exports.

Hugh Johnson

Ordinarily, we would have a technical bounce at this level. But then the question is, have you seen a bear market bottom? I don't know if we have at this point.

In my opinion this tie is one of the greatest ties or wins in the short history of the Montgomery Bears soccer team. This has really put us on the map.

Joseph Kennedy

In every fiber of his being he lived out his belief that each and every one of us bears a responsibility to do whatever we can to right the wrongs of this world and to use our talents and our time to serve a larger purpose.

If you have a long-term horizon, ... you can ride out any bear market and invest in standard growth funds.

Sathya Baba

If you are wealthy, be humble. Plants bend when they bear fruit.

If you lose a game you're not going to sleep, or even if you win sometimes because there's always the next game. It's a lot of wear and tear on your mind. Some of the series you could be down or facing elimination, and that puts stress on you. You have to bear down with it and prepare yourself for your next shift.

If you go down to the woods today / You're sure of a big surprise . . . / For every bear that ever there was / Will gather there for certain because / Today's the day the teddy bears have their picnic.

Instead of being a new bull market starting, this is just an oversold bounce from the downtrend, ... The sharpest rallies occur in bear markets and right now, everybody is like a deer caught in the headlights.

Bill Withers

If there is a load you have to bear That you can't carry I'm right up the road I'll share your load if you just call me.

Clearly there are signs that we are going to see a much less rosy picture in capital investment, and we're certainly in a bear market in technology. I would expect many investors still have not been able to pare back their exposure to technology to the degree that many would like to.

Paul Jenkins

Canada may have to bear more than their fair share of the burden of resolving the imbalances. There is also the risk that protectionist measures could be taken worldwide, hurting all trading nations, including Canada.

In doing of either, let wit bear a stroke,/ For buying or selling of pig in a poke.

Dan Jenkins

I married a homecoming queen, which means I know as much about college football as the next person, as long as the next person is not Darrell Royal or Bear Bryant. As the NFF Historian, I'll have a new platform to indulge my passion for the most emotional, colorful and hysterical game ever developed by mankind and Walter Camp.

Arlen Specter

If there are backroom assurances and if there are backroom deals and if there is something which bears upon a precondition as to how a nominee is going to vote, I think that's a matter that ought to be known.

Francis Bacon

If we begin with certainties, we will end in doubt. But if we begin with doubts and bear them patiently, we may end in certainty.

Mariella Frostrup

I love physical books, can't bear to throw them away, and am drowning under the weight of my collection, but I do a lot of my work reading now on my iPad.

Mike Babcock

I looked at this as a five-game mini playoff series. We played Nashville, Dallas, Carolina, Philly and the Rangers and came out of it winning 3-2. With the exception of the Dallas game, we played real well. When we bear down and have a good focus, we're a good team.

Ben Roethlisberger

I'll make the stakes even higher. Jake Plummer, let's make this a 'beard versus beard' match. The loser must shave his beard with a rusty straight razor.

Hugh Johnson

I'm referred to as a fundamentalist -- a person who cares about company earnings and where the economy is going -- but the truth is I'm a closet technician. I've learned something as we've moved through the bear market: The last people to find out about a problem are research analysts and fundamentally oriented strategists.

I'm maybe more optimistic for the end of the year, but for the next few weeks, I think we are still in these treacherous waters. We're just going to have to grin and bear it, and then maybe we'll see a run up in November and December.

I'm from Chicago, ... and 20 touchdowns in a season is more than any Bears quarterback has had in 38 of the past 39 years.

I hadn't taken one or two steps when the bear burst out of the brush. It charged down and then it stopped.

Lesley Manville

I'm very lucky because I don't half get some juicy jobs. But I can't tell you the number I've turned down in the past 20 years because I wanted to be at home, looking after my son. There was never any question about that. Alfie and I are dead close. I can't bear it when he's away.

James Buchan

In falling markets, there is nothing that has not happened before. The bear or pessimist sees only the past, which imprisons the wretched financial soul in eternal circles of boom and bust and boom again.

In December 2004, U.S. interest rates were at 2.25 per cent and people were expecting them to top out at 3.0 per cent -- the Fed hikes this year have been the catalyst for an end to the dollar's bear run.