Marry me," he said. "Marry me, Tess. Marry me and be Tessa Herondale. Or be Tessa Gray, or be whatever you wish to call yourself, but marry me and stay with me and never leave me, for I cannot bear another day of my life to go by that does not have you in it.
I bear witness, O my God, that Thou hast created me to know Thee and to worship Thee. I testify, at this moment, to my powerlessness and to Thy might, to my poverty and to Thy wealth. There is none other God but Thee, the Help in Peril, the Self-Subsisting.
Many players will not improve because they cannot bear self-knowledge.
All my laurels you have riven away, and my roses; yet in spite of you, there is one crown I bear away with me. . . One thing without stain, unspotted from the world, in spite of doom mine own! And that is. . . my white plume.
If only it were possible for us to see farther than our knowledge reaches, and even a little beyond the outworks of our presentiment, perhaps we would bear our sadnesses with greater trust than we have in our joys.
If there is a load you have to bear that you can't carry, I'm right up the road. I'll share your load if you just call me.
To have the universe bear one company would be a great consolation in death.
Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new impositions; any bungler can add to the old; but is it altogether wise to have no other bounds to your impositions than the patience of those who are to bear them?
If there is something comforting - religious, if you want - about paranoia, there is still also anti-paranoia, where nothing is connected to anything, a condition not many of us can bear for long.
The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
One can bear anything of which one is able to conceive.
This man, lady, hath robb'd many beasts of their particular additions: he is as valiant as a lion, churlish as the bear, slow as the elephant-a man into whom nature hath so crowded humours that his valour is crush'd into folly, his folly sauced with discretion.
God is indeed a jealous God. He cannot bear to see, that we had rather not with him, but with each other play.
I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.
The story has to flow from an unstructured, felt place, but then I have to bring my analytical brain to bear on issues of craft.
We need to confront the life-killing stereotype that says we're all about suffering. We need to bear witness to our pleasures.
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.
Have courage then: make a virtue of necessity: ask of God, not deliverance from your pains, but strength to bear resolutely, for the love of Him, all that He should please, and as long as He shall please.
To be unable to bear an ill is itself a great ill.
The grandchildren should not bear the debts of the grandparents.