#bear

I just met someone who read Gone With the Wind 62 times for exactly that same reason. She couldn't bear that it wasn't real. She wanted to live in it. ↗

— Alison Bechdel

#exactly #gone #gone with the wind #i #just

Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#despise #fatigue #great #habit #pain

Job was the greatest of all the children of the east, and his afflictions were well-nigh more than he could bear; but even if we imagined them wearing him to death, that would not make his story tragic. ↗

— Andrew Coyle Bradley

#bear #children #could #death #east

I adore art... when I am alone with my notes, my heart pounds and the tears stream from my eyes, and my emotion and my joys are too much to bear. ↗

— Giuseppe Verdi

#alone #am #art #bear #emotion

Only free people have an incentive to be virtuous. Only people who bear the consequences of their own acts will care about those consequences and try to learn from their mistakes. ↗

— Harry Browne

#acts #bear #care #consequences #free

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. ↗

— James Buchan

#bear #before #boom #bust #circles

There's no life without humour. It can make the wonderful moments of life truly glorious, and it can make tragic moments bearable. ↗

— Rufus Wainwright

#glorious #humour #life #make #moments

Those who can bear all can dare all. ↗

— Luc de Clapiers

#dare #those #who

I'm not a very gregarious person. I can't bear attention being called to me in a public place, which is ridiculous in a business that pays you to be noticed. ↗

— Gabriel Byrne

#bear #being #business #called #gregarious

There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt: and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#contempt #forgive #forgotten #injury #insult