Burden Quotes
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No one has to thank me for accepting the burden, because it is so big sacrifice for me to please or I would not do for kindness to anyone. I do this to for my country, as a duty of conscience, coldly, calmly completed.
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Whenever you have a proclamation of being chosen, it's always a self-defining process. It's always the people who are chosen who say they are chosen. They never say that about the other. If you're going to say, "I'm chosen," it loads you with a very heavy burden.
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A vacuum should be weightless, but I stagger under the burden of it.
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Being with friends felt like a burden. I remember just sobbing.
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The man of knowledge in our time is bowed down under a burden he never imagined he would ever have: the overproduction of truth that cannot be consumed.
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Don't ask God to give you a light burden. Ask Him to give you strong shoulders to carry a heavy burden.
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There is nothing, under present conditions, that can be more easily and exactly reproduced than a technically good black-and-white photograph, and it is utter rot to burden those interested in them with irrelevant biographical trivia and pet longwinded theory.
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The prosecutor, who is supposed to carry the burden of proof, really is an author.
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Total non-retention has kept my education from being a burden to me.
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We've gone from a preponderance of acute and infectious disease as a source of premature death to chronic diseases, which are the preponderance of the burden of illness in most of the world. That puts a much higher premium on the prevention of chronic disease than ever in history.
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You don't want to burden some poor wretch with the entire story of your life.
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Employees represent an opportunity to inspire not a burden to carry.
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Worse than a true evil is it to bear the burden of faults that are not truly yours.
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There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
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So in sum, what are we? We are the creatures that know and know too much. That leaves us with such a burden again we have a choice, to laugh or cry. No other animal does either. We do, depending on the season and the need.
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One can't erase the tremendous burden of apartheid in 10 years, 20 years, I believe, even 30 years.
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It is the quality of the burden you must consider, Brutus, not the weight.
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As women, we're supposed to bear the burden of raising our families and then also financially providing for them as well, and it's difficult when you're already starting off making less than the average.
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Plus, 40% of our debt is owned by foreign interest. I can't support a plan that passes along cost burden to our children and makes us more reliant on foreign dollars.
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Keeping the commandments of God is not a difficult burden when we do it out of love of him who has so graciously blessed us.
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It was heavy, and I staggered when I lifted it; but it was strangely satifying to have a real burden upon my shoulders – a kind of counterweight to my terrible heaviness of heart.
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Labour may be a burden and a chastisement, but it is also an honour and a glory. Without it, nothing can be accomplished.
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Ah, what is more blessed than to put cares away, when the mind lays by its burden, and tired with labor of far travel we have come to our own home and rest on the couch we longed for? This it is which alone is worth all these toils.
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Car ownership as we know it will change. The promise of car ownership of the past, the freedom of open roads... the reality has been more of a burden.
