Famous Quotes & Sayings

We know the general strike will cause hardship to the people. But we urge them to bear with us and face four days of difficulties for the greater cause of democracy.

We know the federal government ultimately will bear much of the expense. But it's still too early to try to estimate what the overall costs will be and ... how the expenses will be handled.

Henry Giroux

Universities should be about more than developing work skills. They must also be about producing civic-minded and critically engaged citizens - citizens who can engage in debate, dialogue and bear witness to a different and critical sense of remembering, agency, ethics and collective resistance.

Ron Wilson

We had too many casual moments. As we were getting power plays, especially in the second period, we just didn't bear down. It was sloppy. It was just like we were on our own plan.

David Swanson

We have a growing black bear population in Ohio. The numbers are growing slowly, but steadily.

Valuations are very high for the current economic climate or indeed even a prosperous climate. So it looks like what we are dealing with here is a bear market rally.

We're really not rooting for a bear market. It's like fire insurance. You don't hope for a fire but you keep some insurance just in case. It's a good component for people with stock exposure to make the ride a little smoother.

Without question what is taking place bears all the hallmarks of being coordinated.

We have more bears having more cubs and we have bears that are in places where they haven't been in 50 years.

We watched Peter Jennings' beard grow, and we were somehow reassured that he did not shave, that through morning, afternoon, evening and on into the night, he did not leave the desk, that he confided in us his uncertainties, that he shared the confusions of each hour. He grew more pale and more vulnerable, as if he knew that we needed him to be human, so that we could be together.

David A. Bednar

Within the walls of our own homes, we can and should bear pure testimony of the divinity and reality of the Father and the Son, of the great plan of happiness, and of the Restoration.

Diogenes

The vine bears three kinds of grapes: the first of pleasure, the second of intoxication, the third of disgust

Clayton Christensen

I think this is one reason why the Lord invented the Internet - so members can teach one another how to succeed in assignments the Lord has given us, and to give us opportunities to inspire and bear testimony in a horizontal way.

Herbert Spencer

The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.

Wayne LaPierre

When law enforcement isn't available, Americans turn to the one right that protects all the others, the right to keep and bear arms,

Ron Wyden

While Free Choice Vouchers didn't fulfill my vision of a health care system in which every American would be empowered to hire and fire their insurance company, they were a foothold for choice and competition and a safety valve for Americans whose employers are already forcing them to bear more and more of their family's health insurance costs.

Faced with the prospects of competing with much-larger vendors, we believe that many will choose acquisition instead of trying to broaden their own capabilities or find deeper pockets. 2006 will bear out to be the year of super-consolidation for the SOA markets.

Barack Obama

It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.

We're in a bear market. You're going to see these little rallies on short-covering, but there's nothing (else) on the horizon to push us past that right now.

We see this as a serious situation which bears close monitoring. This is a disconcertingly high mortality rate.

David Porter

The government has confirmed that (the power industry) will be expected to bear the entire burden of reductions in phase two of the scheme.

The grand jurors have done their work extraordinarily well, bringing to bear all of their legal powers, life experiences and shrewdness,

Abbas Kiarostami

I feel like a tree. A tree doesn't feel a duty to start doing something about the earth from which it comes. A tree just has to bear fruit, and leaves and blossoms. It doesn't feel grateful to the earth.

Ariel Sharon

We have no desire to permanently rule over millions of Palestinians, who double their numbers every generation. Israel, which wishes to be an exemplary democracy, will not be able to bear such a reality over time. The Disengagement Plan presents the possibility of opening a gate to a different reality.

There are seminal points in economies, and they're reached rarely, ... We reached one in the 1990s, and we will not go back to an economy that bears any resemblance to the one before.

There are questions about who will pay for all of this, but our premise has been to get people the help they need first and worry about who will pay for this later, ... In particular, we know the feds will bear much of the brunt.

The question remains whether the price/value relationship is going to bear fruit for Disney.

Jane Welsh Carlyle

'On earth the living have much to bear;' the difference is chiefly in the manner of bearing, and my manner of bearing is far from being the best.

Bailey Chase

It was a great time to grow up in Chicago. It was the mid-'80s, and we had the '85 Bears and the Michael Jordan era.

Giorgio Agamben

The thought of security bears within it an essential risk. A state which has security as its sole task and source of legitimacy is a fragile organism; it can always be provoked by terrorism to become more terroristic.

George Vecsey

When I was a kid, my father brought home the autobiography of Sid Luckman, the great Chicago Bears quarterback - probably an extra copy from the sports department where he worked. It was the first sports biography I ever read.

Gloria Steinem

Women tend to need the healthcare system more because we bear children. Insurance companies - not all of them, but many of them - 'gender-rate.' Women may pay 40% more for their health insurance than men do.

Claude Monet

All I did was to look at what the universe showed me, to let my brush bear witness to it.