Quotes with bearing

  • An actor is totally vulnerable. His total personality is exposed to critical judgment - his intellect, his bearing, his diction, his whole appearance. In short, his ego.

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  • Barbara Kingsolver A wife is the earth itself, changing hands, bearing scars.
    The Poisonwood Bible
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Alec Guinness An actor is totally vulnerable. His total personality is exposed to critical judgment - his intellect, his bearing, his diction, his whole appearance. In short, his ego.
    Alec Guinness
    English actor (1914 - 2000)
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  • Arthur E. Waite Behind the man is the Tree of Life, bearing twelve fruits, and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is behind the woman; the serpent is twining round it.
    Arthur E. Waite
    American-born British poet and mystic (1857 - 1942)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Bill Dedman Federal regulations forbid delaying inspections for fracture-critical bridges like the fallen Minneapolis bridge - the kind with a lack of redundancy in design, so that a single failure in a load-bearing part can cause the entire bridge to collapse.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Henry David Thoreau I have a deep sympathy with war, it so apes the gait and bearing of the soul.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • George Eliot I tell you there isn't a thing under the sun that needs to be done at all, but what a man can do better than a woman, unless it's bearing children, and they do that in a poor make-shift way; it had better ha been left to the men.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Frank Crane It takes so little to make people happy. Just a touch, If we know how to give it, just a word fitly spoken, a slight readjustment of some bolt or pin or bearing in the delicate machinery of a soul.
    Frank Crane
    American actor
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  • Buzz Aldrin Just as Mars - a desert planet - gives us insights into global climate change on Earth, the promise awaits for bringing back to life portions of the Red Planet through the application of Earth Science to its similar chemistry, possibly reawakening its life-bearing potential.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Anna Garlin Spencer Of all the wastes of human ignorance perhaps the most extravagant and costly to human growth has been the waste of the distinctive powers of womanhood after the child-bearing age.
    Anna Garlin Spencer
    American educator and feminist (1851 - 1931)
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  • Graham Greene People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery.
    Graham Greene
    English writer (1904 - 1991)
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  • Wallace Stevens 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
    American poet (1879 - 1955)
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  • Cat Stevens 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
    British singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1948 - )
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  • Audre Lorde The quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives has direct bearing upon the product which we live, and upon the changes which we hope to bring about through those lives.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • William Shakespeare The teeming Autumn big with rich increase, bearing the wanton burden of the prime like widowed wombs after their lords decease.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher The test of Christian character should be that a man is a joy-bearing agent to the world.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Epictetus The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Barry Eichengreen This crisis of long-term unemployment is having a profoundly damaging impact on the lives of those bearing the brunt of it. We know this thanks to a series of careful studies of the problem conducted in the depths of the 1930s Great Depression.
    Barry Eichengreen
    American economist
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  • Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 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-Exupéry
    French writer (1900 - 1944)
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