The importation of foreigners into a country that has as many inhabitants as the present employments and provisions for subsistence will bear, will be in the end no increase of people, unless the new comers have more industry and frugality than the natives, and then they will provide more subsistence, and increase in the country; but they will gradually eat the natives out. Nor is it necessary to bring in foreigners to fill up any occasional vacancy in a country for such vacancy will soon be filled by natural generation.
I bear no grudges. I have a mind that retains nothing.
It was stated,. . . that the value of architecture depended on two distinct characters:--the one, the impression it receives from human power; the other, the image it bears of the natural creation.
As for ourselves, yes, we must be meek, bear injustice, malice, rash judgment. We must turn the other cheek, give up our cloak, go a second mile.
. . bear in mind that, in general, it is the object of our newspapers rather to create a sensation-to make a point-than to further the cause of truth. " Dupin in "The Mystery of Marie Roget
Without virtue it is difficult to bear gracefully the honors of fortune.
Grant me, O Lord, a sunny mind-Thy windy will to bear!
Whenever I refused to follow my fate, something very hard to bear would happen in my life.
As such, I also bear witness to the unexpected extent to which man is capable of defying and braving even the worst conditions conceivable.
If the bear were to make a racial comment, it would be more likely to get a laugh than if a person on stage were to make a racial comment.
We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit.
Seeing, looking at what others cannot bear to see is what my life is all about.
Alyosha's heart could not bear uncertainty, for the nature of his love was always active. He could not love passively; once he loved, he immediately also began to help.
Christ also takes from us all inclination or power to boast of our national prestige. To me, it is prestige enough to be a Christian--to bear the cross Christ gives me to carry and to follow in the footsteps of the great Crossbearer.
Homeless people bear God's image too.
We. . . have to open our mouths and bear testimony.
Only those who must bear the consequences of a decision have the right to make it.
All we are asked to bear we can bear.
Never sell the bear's skin before one has killed the beast.
Sometimes, you get the bear. Sometimes, the bear gets you.