Quotes with burden

  • You don't want to burden some poor wretch with the entire story of your life.
  • As pressure grows to ease the financial burden on social security, pressure will also grow to eliminate the elderly and infirm to 'free up' more money for the 'fit' and those who contribute more than they take from society.
  • When you make new musicals, you have the great freedom and the great burden that it can be changed.
  • Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, until the sun goes down. And this is all that life really means.
  • Of rich men it telleth, and strange is the story how they have, and they hanker, and grip far and wide; And they live and they die, and the earth and its glory has been but a burden they scarce might abide.
  • The fact that the Arctic, more than any other populated region of the world, requires the collaboration of so many disciplines and points of view to be understood at all, is a benefit rather than a burden.
  • Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.
  • The money cost of the reservoir plan literally fades into insignificance when it is compared with the financial burden which the great depression imposed on the nation.
  • It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death.
  • The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget.
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  • John F. Kennedy Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Desiderius Erasmus Heaven grant that the burden you carry may have as easy an exit as it had an entrance. [Prayer To A Pregnant Woman]
    Desiderius Erasmus
    Dutch humanist and philosopher (1469 - 1536)
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  • G.W.F. Hegel America is, therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World's history shall reveal itself. It is a land of desire for all those who are weary of the historical lumber-room of Old Europe.
    G.W.F. Hegel
    German philosopher (1770 - 1831)
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  • Barbara Mikulski America must continue diplomacy, even as we continue the war, to expand the coalition of the willing to share the burden of war and to share the responsibility and the economic cost of rebuilding Iraq.
    Barbara Mikulski
    American politician (1936 - )
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, until the sun goes down. And this is all that life really means.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Cal Thomas As pressure grows to ease the financial burden on social security, pressure will also grow to eliminate the elderly and infirm to 'free up' more money for the 'fit' and those who contribute more than they take from society.
    Cal Thomas
    American columnist and author (1942 - )
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  • Alfred A. Montapert Before every action ask yourself. Will this bring more monkeys on my back. Will the result of my action be a blessing or a heavy burden?
    Alfred A. Montapert
    American writer
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  • Daniel Day Lewis Being at the center of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence - the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with trepidation.
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  • Bob Dylan Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot.
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Edwin Markham Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, the emptiness of ages in his face, and on his back the burden of the world.
    Edwin Markham
    American poet and editor (1852 - 1940)
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  • Bill Delahunt Brick and mortar businesses - and the communities that depend on them - cannot continue to bear an unfair sales tax burden from which their on-line competitors are effectively exempt.
    Bill Delahunt
    American lawyer and politician (1941 - )
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Do not free the camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Enjoy what thou has inherited from thy sires if thou wouldn't really possess it. What we employ and use is never an oppressive burden; what the moment brings forth, that only can it profit by.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Robert H. Schuller Every burden is a blessing.
    Robert H. Schuller
    American Christian televangelist, pastor, motivational speaker, and au (1926 - 2015)
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  • Madame Chiang Kai-Shek Every clique is a refuge for incompetence. It fosters corruption and disloyalty, it begets cowardice, and consequently is a burden upon and a drawback to the progress of the country. Its instincts and actions are those of the pack.
    Madame Chiang Kai-Shek
    Chinese political figure who was First Lady of the Republic of China (1897 - 2003)
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  • Betty Friedan Friedan: I think it's partly a reaction against feminism, partly envy of feminism, and partly partly a real need of men to evolve through the burden of the masculine mystique, the burden of machismo.
    The Playboy Interview
    Betty Friedan
    American feministisch writer (1921 - 2006)
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  • Betty Friedan Friedan: Men had to be supermen: stoic, responsible meal tickets. Dominance is a burden. Most men who are honest will admit that.
    The Playboy Interview
    Betty Friedan
    American feministisch writer (1921 - 2006)
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  • Anne Morrow Lindbergh Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way.
    Anne Morrow Lindbergh
    American Author (1906 - 2001)
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  • Roxana Robinson Grief was an actual weight, he thought. It felt like a physical burden. You carried it with you all day, unsheddable. Your shoulders, by nightfall, felt dragged down.
    This is My Daughter p.320
    Roxana Robinson
    American writer (1946 - )
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  • Plato He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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