#bearing

The mere fact of an American being present could help save the lives of innocent people. That's why I believe in the importance of bearing witness, to become a voice for the voiceless. ↗

— Bianca Jagger

#bearing #become #being #believe #could

Every artist seems to me to have the job of bearing witness to the world we live in. To some extent I think of all of us as artists, because we have voices and we are each of us unique. ↗

— Jane Rule

#artists #bearing #because #each #every

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#bearing #cathedral #ceases #contemplates #him

Had we taken all of Iraq, we would have been like a dinosaur in the tar pit - we would still be there, and we, not the United Nations, would be bearing the costs of that occupation. ↗

— Norman Schwarzkopf

#been #costs #dinosaur #had #iraq

Because I am afraid of commitment. This movie certainly has some bearing and is some reflection of my real feeling about relationships, because I do have commitment issues. My friends tell me I have intimacy problems, but they don't know me, so who cares what they think? ↗

— Garry Shandling

#afraid #am #bearing #because #cares

The latest horror to hit the U.S. looks to have been caused by people of Middle Eastern origin, bearing Muslim names. Again, shame. This fuels more hatred for a religion and a people who have nothing to do with these events. ↗

— Cat Stevens

#bearing #been #caused #eastern #events

Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which it is found, whether the poem, the manner of a god, the bearing of a man. It is not a dress. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#bearing #dress #found #god #man

The Lord's mercy often rides to the door of our heart upon the black horse of affliction. ↗

— Charles H. Spurgeon

#cross-bearing #mercy #trials #horses

The word knight, which originally meant boy or servant, was particularly applied to a young man after he was admitted to the privilege of bearing arms. ↗

— Thomas Bulfinch

#after #applied #arms #bearing #boy

There is also an epidemic of infertility in this country. There are more women who have put off child-bearing in favor of their professional lives. For them, the only way they are going to have a family is to adopt from China. ↗

— Iris Chang

#also #child-bearing #china #country #epidemic