Bearing

Famous quotes containing the word bearing:

    There was ease in Casey’s manner as he stepped into his place,
    There was pride in Casey’s bearing and a smile on Casey’s face;
    Ernest Lawrence Thayer (1863–1940)

    What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.
    François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)

    In our most trivial walks, we are constantly, though unconsciously, steering like pilots by certain well-known beacons and headlands, and if we go beyond our usual course we still carry in our minds the bearing of some neighboring cape; and not till we are completely lost, or turned round,—for a man needs only to be turned round once with his eyes shut in this world to be lost,—do we appreciate the vastness and strangeness of nature.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)