#bear

Black bears, though, are not fearsome. I encountered one on the road to my house in Vermont, alone at night. I picked up two stones just in case, but I wasn't afraid of him. I felt a hunter's exhilaration and a brotherly feeling. ↗

— Edward Hoagland

#alone #bears #black #brotherly #case

All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#cases #equal #equal rights #law #majority

If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it? ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#forbear #pain #pleasure #who #would

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them. ↗

— Carl Jung

#being #deem #experience #happy #ills

Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half. ↗

— Francois Fenelon

#bear #best #friends #half #heavily

The Taliban and its backers bear the responsibility for the consequences of this outrageous act. ↗

— Amanullah Khan

#backers #bear #consequences #outrageous #responsibility

While I drew, and wept along with the terrified children I was drawing, I really felt the burden I am bearing. I felt that I have no right to withdraw from the responsibility of being an advocate. ↗

— Kathe Kollwitz

#along #am #bearing #being #burden

At NIH, what tends to happen is that the proven researchers tend to get the money. New researchers, younger researchers, or people on the cutting edge don't get the money until they have gray beards. ↗

— Mort Kondracke

#cutting #cutting edge #edge #get #gray

The Bears treat offense as if it's bubonic plague. ↗

— Tony Kornheiser

#bubonic #offense #plague #treat

Yes and for two reasons: one, I couldn't find anything to imitate at the time, and secondly because what I heard on the radio didn't bear any resemblance to what I wanted to hear on the guitar. ↗

— Leo Kottke

#anything #bear #because #find #guitar