#bearing

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

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Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#child-bearing #dear #deity #sovereign

It is, finally, a word is untimely in three different senses, and bearing it as one's treasure will not win one anyone's favours; one rather risks finding oneself outside everyone's camp... Beauty is the word that shall be our first. ↗

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

#bearing #beauty #camp #different #everyone

I do not come bearing a party label on my sleeve - or a quick fix in my back pocket. I do not come with a rigid ideology in my heart - or a soul that tells me to go it alone. I do not come to uproot tradition - or to be imprisoned by it. ↗

— Ted Kulongoski

#back #bearing #come #fix #go

Honesty is the most single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product. ↗

— Ed McMahon

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The war is coming to the streets of America and if you are not keeping and bearing and practicing with your arms then you will be helpless and you will be the victim of evil. ↗

— Ted Nugent

#arms #bearing #coming #evil #helpless

It would be so weird if we knew just as much as we needed to know to answer all the questions of the universe. Wouldn't that be freaky? Whereas the probability is high that there is a vast reality that we have no way to perceive, that's actually bearing down on us now and influencing everything. ↗

— George Saunders

#answer #bearing #down #everything #freaky