Bearing Quotations

I believe that life is short, and there is too much time wasted bearing grudges, and I like to move on.

Some men don't want to be responsible fathers. It's easier to say 'Let's just turn the kids over to the state.' Women end up bearing the entire load, raising kids alone without a husband to share the parenting.

As you say goodbye to lingering disappointments and unattended grief, you will discover that every person, situation and painful incident comes bearing gifts.

Truthfully, we don't want my Weezer affiliation to have any bearing on whether someone likes us or not. It's an entirely different thing. The Space Twins have our own chemistry.

I love this life. I feel like I am always catching my breath and saying, 'Oh! Will you look at that?' Photography has been my way of bearing witness to the joy I find in seeing the extraordinary in ordinary life. You don't look for pictures. Your pictures are looking for you.

'On earth the living have much to bear;' the difference is chiefly in the manner of bearing, and my manner of bearing is far from being the best.

If bearing a reputation as a weirdo is all it takes to be a genius, I'm a shoo-in. Come to think of it, half the people I know are geniuses - the other half, peculiarly enough, idiots.

They were of many types of seals, all bearing the insignia of the King.

We're busily wrecking the chances for future generations at a rapid rate of knots by not recognizing the damage we're doing to the natural environment, bearing in mind that this is the only planet that we know has any life on it.

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?

I'm in favor of destruction, aggression, hating things. Not bearing things anymore. We think the breakdown comes because our life is in bad shape. But maybe the ideas cause the disorder. Something tries to break through and causes the disorder.

Let's be honest. Physicality is going to have a bearing on the parts you get. And if you think differently, you're in the wrong business.

We should remember that bearing a heartfelt testimony is only a beginning. We need to bear testimony, we need to mean it, and most importantly we need consistently to live it. We need to both declare and live our testimonies.

'Wingnuts' is the first book bearing the imprint of Beast Books.

Inviting children as gospel learners to act and not merely be acted upon builds on reading and talking about the Book of Mormon and bearing testimony spontaneously in the home.

My having HIV has no bearing on my business.

I go for all sharing the privileges of the government, who assist in bearing its burdens. Consequently, I go for admitting all whites to the right of suffrage, who pay taxes or bear arms (by no means excluding females).

One size does not fit all in any regulation. When it is clear that the smaller companies are bearing a larger part of the burden, then it really has to be addressed. I don't think that was the intent of the legislation.

None of this has any bearing on who will start the season. I told them that today. I've got to move a lot of people around. I've got to see how different guys play off the bench, see how they play with other people.

No, I don?t think what happened last year or the year before has any bearing on this week.

People were expecting us to run before we walk, ... People should be patient with us, bearing in mind that even the (Western) countries that are shouting at the top today about being democracies, it took them time to get there.

If we're confident in how quickly they're able to rebound, that will have a lot of bearing on it.

Look out for all the T-shirts bearing the images of the candidates making the rounds at the arena. While Mr. Patterson and his anticipated farewell message will hold centre stage, no less visible will be the number of supporters each candidate will be bringing to the table.

We're not defending anything. We're not repeating anything. Nothing that happened in the past really has any bearing on (this year). Don't get me wrong. I'm respectful of what this organization has accomplished . . . but none of that really has any bearing on anything we do.

Most of the time building permit activity has a direct bearing on actual construction activity, since developers do not want to expend capital to pay for permits only to be not working on their projects.

She is usually perceived as a dove and bearing that in mind I think her remarks come across as quite upbeat and I think that's why sterling is finding a little bit of relief.

She has held some very prestigious positions and brings a wealth of experience to our university and to the College of Business Administration in particular, ... She has the bearing of one who has handled positions of high visibility and demand with excellence. There are not many people that have the breadth of experience that she has.

So far, the debt payment ratio (of loan payments to income) hasn't been higher this decade than during the 1990s, but it's been partly held in check by lower interest rates. In some sense, we haven't seen the whole burden bearing down yet.

Separation would likely do more harm than good for congressional Republicans. They need to try to rehabilitate the president's political standing, which will have a large bearing on the size of their seat loss in 2006.

When things aren't going your way, he can step up to that other level. That makes him a great player. He's bearing down on opportunities. He's taking all the challenges, and that's a great sign for our team.

has a direct bearing on the quality of the administration that follows it.

Given the Bank of England's apparent wariness about the accuracy of this initial (GDP) estimate, it is questionable whether it will have much of a bearing on policy decisions.

From Azerbaijan to Zimbabwe, we see the same patterns of under-representation and stereotyped portrayal of women in the news. The reason for these patterns is complicated. From the story angle and the choice of interview questions to the use of language and the choice of images; all these have a bearing on the messages that emerge in the news. These patterns are deeply rooted not only in professional practice, but in wider social assumptions about female and male attributes, roles and competencies.

Given they're bearing the entire cost of building out the network, and they're the ones taking on the risk, we think it's only fair for them to try to make it work first.

For most of our young lives, my family was baffled by elementary school bake sales, to which we were told to bring in goodies to sell. While other kids arrived bearing brownies, chocolate chip cookies, and apple pies, Chinese families didn't bake.

God created heavens and the earth ... but my personal belief has no bearing on what should be taught in the schools.

Bearing an eternal longing for Jewishness, I threw myself in all directions and left to work for another people. I am not one of those lucky ones raised in their own environment, whose work is normal.

Bearing in mind I'm not a mental health expert in any way, he seemed fine. He wasn't highly agitated, and didn't seem out of sorts.

Bearing in mind that the Fed wants higher inflation, the news is not unwelcome. And the market will remain firmly in the camp that the Fed will not tighten soon, ... Nevertheless, the risks from the PPI are easy to see and look real in light of the big decline of the dollar and rise in import costs that preceded them.

Bearing in mind your good character ... I am not imposing any custodial sentence.

We suggest that any khipu moving within the state administrative system bearing an initial arrangement of three figure-eight knots would have been immediately recognizable to Inca administrators as an account pertaining to the palace of Puruchuco.

He did have an incredible game, but I don't know how much bearing that will have on this Fiesta Bowl.

He has always found ways to make sure that children could reach their full potential in school. It's obvious this educator is still educating and still making a difference. He was replanted and is still bearing fruit.

Golf is played against the course. What someone else is doing does not have any bearing on your game. In golf, if the conditions are tough, everyone is dealing with them.

He's been mainly our closer, and with the way he throws, he's just better off going a couple of innings, so that was the plan coming in. It had no bearing on his performance. In fact, I thought he threw pretty well.

We just have to keep bearing down and playing hard. We're too good of a team not do that that.

Stanley Hauerwas is correct that Judaism insists on the bearing of children because it is essential to Jewish continuity. But to end the matter there is to miss an essential point: if we are to learn to love others, Judaism says, we must begin by loving those who are closest to us.

Our population growth makes everything harder. We've gone down the dumb-growth path for many years. ... Maybe as we see all this bearing down on us, we'll take the smart-growth path.

Kyle just has had amazing command of his pitch location. He's bearing down on every pitch. He's been nearly perfect.

Just as you can be for health care reform without having any animosity toward nurses, you can be in favor of immigration reform without bearing any animosity toward immigrants.

I think every team goes through phases where they don't play quite as well, especially away from home. They probably haven't played as well in the last two games as they had been, but we've had numerous games like this as well. I don't know if the recent performances by either team will have much bearing on the game Saturday.

Our kids are good at adversity. We've worked on that all year long, on being mentally tough for 80 minutes and they hung in there. I was worried about our composure there for a minute with the heat bearing down on us. But we've been behind before and we've been tied and had to come back, so that's nothing new to us.

I will see how my hip is bearing up in the summer. It is important to be fair to myself and the club if it is affecting me.

Right now the Constitution is mere paper, with no bearing upon the British people, although they might find it good for doorstops, good for real fires and good for fish and chips.

I think we have a very, very generous program here, The students are being asked to bear all of the misery. ... The university employees are not bearing any of the misery.

I think in my heart of hearts that had a big bearing on it,

We need someone to make sure blacks are not always bearing the burden of integration. We have been bearing the burden for a number of years, since this thing started.

You know what? It was what it was. We all played the same scenario. The bottom line is, we didn't get it done and they did. And I don't think the clock was an issue at all. ... I don't think it had any bearing whatsoever on the game, I truly believe that.

Two weekends left and then we've got playoffs. We're bearing down, trying to get something going here and I think we had a good start last weekend.

We have had growing pains, but we are now bearing the fruits of that.

Waddle's testimony is clearly necessary to the court in determining all of the relevant facts and circumstances bearing on the collision,

Utah may well be the most cosmopolitan state in America. Vast numbers of young Mormons - increasingly women as well as men - spend a couple of years abroad as missionaries and return jabbering in Thai or Portuguese and bearing a wealth of international experience.

That's the miracle of Amazon! It's like Internet dating. In the early days, you could get slimed as an author on Amazon by someone bearing a grudge, or jealous, or whatever. And because there were so few reviews posted, this stank.

The 10 million jobs may be realistic, but it may not be all that different from what we would see no matter what happens. We're looking for 3 million jobs to be created in 2004. Even if Kerry is elected, he'll have no bearing on the economy until 2006.

We are obviously concerned regarding the most recent allegation of a document bearing an invalid signature. We have cooperated fully with the FBI with regard to the alleged forged document and will continue to do so. We also hope to identify the wrongdoer in the event the questionable signatures are indeed forgeries.

We believe this issue has no bearing on our proposed acquisition of Guidant. Unfortunately, threats of legal action are commonplace in our industry.

We can't be in the position any longer where we are paying the burden and bearing the burden for countries that won't cooperate with us and take their own citizens back.

Well, we emphasize that you call it when it occurs at the point of attack and if it has a bearing on the play. And even then, it's up to the official to use his discretion as to whether it's a fender-bender or a train wreck. If you arm-clamp or take down the defender, that's what we call a train wreck.

We really needed a win tonight, especially on the road. My mind-set tonight was to really focus in on bearing down and getting a win. I wanted to do everything in my will to get that win tonight.

What we did this year has no bearing on how many games we win next year. There has to be a commitment in the off-season to get better, and there has to be a commitment when we come back to training camp. If we make that commitment, then we'll be a better basketball team.

The outcome will have a bearing on my decision. If it is my last game, all the people that saw me start my career get an opportunity to see me end it. My career will have come full circle.

There are some pretty flagrant differences on items like clarity and color, which would have a bearing on the retail value.

We had no shot of making that one. You have 1.26 seconds and (holder) B.J. (Sander) has a clock in his head, as do I, and the snap came back way behind him. He was trying to rush to get it around and when it's that far off, you kind of lose the bearing on where the spot is.

When I met his dad (Chuck), we talked about Toby, but that didn't have any bearing on me hiring him.

The pins allow rotation of the bridge at the bearing areas. The need for rotation is mainly derived from the fact that steel expands and contracts with temperature variations. When the temperature warms, the bridge naturally expands, or lengthens longitudinally, and unless it's allowed to do so, undesired stresses are introduced to the structure.

We are marching to defend our civil liberties which are under attack and to show our solidarity with the Muslim communities who are bearing the brunt of that attack.

The right to buy weapons is the right to be free.

We congratulate the Lincolnton Bearing Plant on winning this project for Lincoln County.

We contend AOL Time Warner is powerful enough that it won't go gently into the night (unlike Novell, WordPerfect, Lotus, Netscape, et al). We do believe, however, that developments between the two companies over the next year or two will have significant bearing on the long-term direction of the industry.

We really cover the whole spectrum and it's a hoot. It's meant to be a really up, fun show. And it's a nice reward for me personally, since I've never gone back and revisited some of this stuff. And for other people, it's a reward for bearing with me.

When I signed for Celtic I did say to them that it would be best for the club and myself to maybe look at things in the summer but they were quite keen for me to sign for the extra year, which I did eventually. But I will look at things in the summer and see how my hip is bearing up. I'm due to go back to the hip specialist in the summer. It's important to be fair to myself and the club if it is affecting me.

When you say that you write romantic fiction, there are a lot of people who have an image in their mind of the 'bodice ripper.' It's the one term that most romantic fiction writers absolutely hate because it has no bearing on what people are writing.

We've basically sold our position in USAI, ... We're very much focused on bearing down on cable and interactive television.

We've basically sold our position in USAI. We're very much focused on bearing down on cable and interactive television.

Whether we play well or don't play well come Sunday, will have no bearing on how we've done this season. As I recall, we lost our last couple games in the exhibition season and got off to a pretty good start in the regular season.

While Ken's misstatement about his academic credentials is unfortunate, it has no bearing on the accuracy of our financial results or the quality of our financial procedures and controls,

What they'll determine or what they'll recommend will have a lot bearing on saving cats that might want to migrate north of here.

With the hurricane bearing down on Florida, he is taking care of his family. He might still be available. With hurricanes, you never know. It might totally miss Florida, and if that happens, he will be joining us when he can.

Working people are bearing the brunt of the EPA's inaction,

Yeltsin's delivery during his oath and the fact that he made no speech indicated that he was unwell, but his bearing when he walked to the podium suggested that the illness was not very serious.

We're aware of the challenges that lie ahead bearing in mind other teams are coming in with a lot of good players, especially the Super 14 reps.

We knew they would raise their game and we didn't match it after they started coming at us. It's a matter that later we've got to be better. I don't know if it's bearing down more or we've got to be more disciplined, but we're going to need to change and we have to do it in a hurry.

Didn't affect us at all. As a defensive end, it has absolutely no bearing on me. It shouldn't affect Sundays. On Sundays, I promise you, everyone forgets about all of that.

Don't just cross a river--cross it bearing fire!.

Director Mueller and other FBI officials have recognized many of the issues and have already dedicated resources to initiate a variety of near-term improvements in the human resources area. The FBI has accomplished much in this area and its efforts are bearing fruit, ... During the course of this review, we had extraordinary cooperation from, and access to, FBI personnel-from senior executives and managers to unit chiefs and line employees. We believe that this type of access, and the openness of those interviewed, contributed significantly to our ability to understand the issues and develop meaningful and helpful recommendations.

We are an aggressive team, that is the way we play. We sent them to the line and they just had more chances than we did. It was an experience, something these players will always remember. The atmosphere was something they had never seen with entire communities following their teams. These teams come from towns. It was just different. It was loud, very loud, and that had a bearing on how we played.

Warming up for the second inning, I threw my split-finger and everything clicked. The first two starts, I haven't felt like I've been consistently bearing the pitch well and I didn't feel like I've been throwing it at a good angle. And I threw it and it was exactly what I wanted it to be from a feel standpoint. And mentally, I was like, 'There it is.' From that point on, when I needed a strikeout, I felt very comfortable about command, fastball-wise, and about the fact I could bury my split in the ground.

The timing of the TBI has no bearing on the case whatsoever.

The sooner we have a clear indication on this the better -- this has a bearing on how companies invest.

The supply of bonds won't have a large bearing on the yield levels or the structure of the yield curve, ... The influence on interest rates will come more fundamental factors such as inflation expectations, competition for capital and monetary policy.