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Quotes About Bearing

We are old; you cannot understand that, that you will or can ever reach a time when you can bear so much and no more; that nothing else is worth the bearing; that you not only cannot, you will not; that nothing is worth anything but peace, peace, peace, even with bereavement and grief—nothing!
~ William Faulkner
VERTICAL TURBINE BEARING MATERIAL DATA 1. Bronze-SAE 660 (Standard) #1104 ASTM-B-584-932 -50 to 250° F Min. S.G. of 0.6 General purpose material for non-abrasive, neutral pH service. 7% Tin/7% Lead/3% Zinc/83% Cu. 2. Bronze-SAE 64 (Zincless) #1107 ASTM-B-584-937 -50 to 180°F Min. S.G. of 0.6 Similar to std. bronze. Used for salt water services. 10%
~ Heinz P. Bloch
but you are very well aware that I belong to that remarkable class of authors who, when they are bearing anything about in their minds in the manner I have just described, feel as if everybody who comes near them, and also the whole world to boot, were asking, "Oh! what is it? Oh! do tell us, my good sir?
~ Leslie S. Klinger
That she should have been ennobled and gained in dignity through being prostituted was a source of surprise, and yet dignity was indeed from within, and her bearing bespoke calm, while on her face could be detected the serenity and imperceptible smile that one surmises rather than actually sees in the eyes of hermits.
~ Pauline Réage
Good posture and an attitude let you get away with anything.
~ Lorna Landvik
Ah how much easier to to bear and understand pain than that promise of spring's frigid and liquid joy. And with such modesty she was awaiting it: the poignancy of goodness.
~ Clarice Lispector
But I still have questions, and the way to get answers is to bear her corrections.
~ Claudia Rankine
It is almost impossible to bear the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody's beard.
~ Unknown
Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.
~ Unknown
I have remained true to my deepest convictions. I mean to the courage of those who are born to be defeated, the weaknesses of the strong, and the tragedy of misunderstandings and missed opportunities, which I have done my best to treat as comedy – for otherwise how can we manage to bear it?
~ Penelope Fitzgerald
But if scandal arise from truth, the scandal should be borne rather than the truth be set aside
~ Peter Kreeft
It struck me that his innate elegance, the product of his character & bearing much more than of the handsome suit and the suede shoes, had been paid for by the surviving of a thousand unimaginable difficulties, each painful to a varying degree. Then I realized that what I meant by elegance was really dignity, that for the first time I had recognized actual dignity in another human being, and that dignity was nothing like the self-congratulatory superiority people usually mistook for it.
~ Peter Straub
And in my case I kept thinking, If I only was stronger mentally, psychologically, and everything, to bear these responsibilities. And in point of fact there was no way anybody could stand that situation. No way. It was not an indication of psychological weakness. It was an indication of not facing reality, but a peculiar kind, you see.
~ Philip K Dick
Thoughts that didn't bear thinking kept crowding in and shouldering aside her pretended passivity.
~ Philip Pullman
Some knowledge is too heavy for children. When you are older and stronger, you can bear it. For now you must trust me to carry it for you. And I was satisfied. More than satisfied--wonderfully at peace. There were answers to mmy hard questions--for now, I was content to leave them in my father's keeping.
~ Corrie Ten Boom
Most of the victims of Nazi aggression were before the war less well off than Germany. They should not be expected by Germany to bear, unaided, the major costs of Nazi aggression.
~ James F. Byrnes
Real suffering bravely borne, melts even a heart of stone. Such is the potency of suffering. And there lies the key to Satyagraha.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
A parcel--taken from one place to another, handed from one owner to another, unwrapped and bundled up at will--is all that I am. A vessel, for the bearing of sons, for one nobleman or another: it hardly matters who.
~ Philippa Gregory
If it's ever within your power to do so, she considered saying aloud to Brian (but didn't), you have to bear witness to your dead. You simply have to. You have to step into the energy field of whatever remains of their spirit, their soul, their essence and let it pass through your body. And in the passing, maybe a wisp of it adheres to you, grafts itself to your cells. And in this communion, the dead continue to live. Or strive to.
~ Dennis Lehane
If it's ever within your power to do so, she considered saying aloud to Brian (but didn't), you have to bear witness to your dead. You simply have to. You have to step into the energy field of whatever remains of their spirit, their soul, their essence and let it pass through your body. And in the passing, maybe a wisp of it adheres to
~ Dennis Lehane
Without one word of direct explanation or apology, he had given me the message he intended. I gave you justice, it said, as I was taught it. And I gave you mercy, too, so far as I could. While I could not spare you pain and humiliation, I make you a gift of my own pains and humiliations, that yours might be easier to bear.
~ Diana Gabaldon
Christ is not only the name of an historical personage but a reality in our own lives."32 He uses the term "christophany" to indicate that each person bears the mystery of Christ within.
~ Unknown
A game lasts 90 minutes. And how long are 90 minutes? How long are they without society? And who bares them?
~ Unknown
What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless. – Ovid
~ Inglath Cooper