#bear

Brick and mortar businesses - and the communities that depend on them - cannot continue to bear an unfair sales tax burden from which their on-line competitors are effectively exempt. ↗

— Bill Delahunt

#brick #burden #businesses #cannot #communities

Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance. ↗

— Max Eastman

#bears #caprice #chance #classic #modern

A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there. ↗

— Meister Eckhart

#being #cover #covering #depths #forty

Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#beat #cracked #dance #kettle #language

I just play him as myself, I don't ease myself into any role really. I stick a beard on and play me. ↗

— Michael Gambon

#beard #ease #him #i #into

We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#abuse #anger #constituted #forbearance #human

You, too, women, cast away all the cowards from your embraces; they will give you only cowards for children, and you who are the daughters of the land of beauty must bear children who are noble and brave. ↗

— Giuseppe Garibaldi

#bear #beauty #brave #cast #children

I see the beard and cloak, but I don't yet see a philosopher. ↗

— Aulus Gellius

#cloak #i #i see #philosopher #see

No one hit home runs the way Babe did. They were something special. They were like homing pigeons. The ball would leave the bat, pause briefly, suddenly gain its bearings, then take off for the stands. ↗

— Lefty Gomez

#ball #bat #bearings #briefly #did

David and his followers taught no new doctrines, in their dispersion or when they came to power, that can be brought to countenance thee at all in shaving off thy beard. ↗

— Lord George Gordon

#brought #came #countenance #david #dispersion