Burden Quotes

It still puts burden on some troops of ours who are there [in Afghanistan and Iraq] as advisors and facilitators.

No nation in the world has so many drastic problems squeezed into so small a space, under such urgent pressure of time and heavy burden of history, as Israel.

It's weird that people expect me to be funny. I find it a real burden when I'm expected to be humorous on talk shows.

The Lourie Center eases the burden of children and their families through early intervention and diagnoses and treatment.

Since I became a favorite in every race, it's just another burden that I have to bear.

Soon it will be a sin of parents to have a child that carries the heavy burden of genetic disease. We are entering a world where we have to consider the quality of our children.

Bear the burdens of others, but don't put them in your pocket too.

Everyone in daily life carries such a heavy mixed burden on his own conscience that he is reluctant to penalize those who have been caught.

Wherever any precept of traditional morality is simply challenged to produce its credentials, as though the burden of proof lay on it, we have taken the wrong position.

It is his absence that is part of me and has been for years. This is who I am, perhaps who we all are, keepers of the absent and the dead. It is the blessing and burden of being alive.

Was this what it meant to love someone? That any burden was a burden shared, that they could give you comfort with a word or a touch?

Some secrets, she thought, were better told; some were better left the burden of the carrier, that they might not cause pain to others.

Heaven suits the back to the burden.

Take up your own daily cross; it is the burden best suited for your shoulder, and will prove most effective to make you perfect in every good word and work to the glory of God.

I'm not gonna become Ann Bancroft or Meryl Streep and have all the burden that being a "serious actress" entails.

Whenever I travel anywhere, I'm constantly asked if I'm Swedish. It's the burden of most Norwegians. The Swedes have just got a better publicity agent, I think.

Poverty is easy to bear if it is only temporary, easier still if it is an entirely voluntary burden.

Beneath the hush a whisper from long ago, promising peace of mind and a burden shared. No peace which is not peace for all, no rest until all has been fulfilled.

Thus fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself when apparent to the eyes ; and we find the burden of anxiety greater, by much, than the evil which we are anxious about.

Sometimes, I think one should only live in the present. The past is only a heavy burden to carry with you. And yet... it's so hard to let them go... to forget... to move ahead.

Sourav has done an excellent job of balancing his captaincy with his personal game. He looks like he is enjoying being captain. And effectively, he has lightened the burden on Sachin Tendulkar.

Only time conquers time and its burdens.

Keeping the commandments is not a burden, but a joyous rehearsal for the eternity.

... something under $50 billion for the cost. How much of that would be the U.S. burden, and how much would be other countries, is an open question.

Every president when he is elected has to live with the pluses and minuses his predecessor leaves, which includes benefits as well as burdens.

You cannot even start a small business under the tremendous regulatory burden we have today in America.

Power comes with a price. It's a burden. It demands sacrifice.

America in particular imposes an horrendous burden on the world. We have this wonderful standard of living but it comes at enormous cost.

Every burden on the back can become a gift in the hand.

In today's world, we all live with the burden of feeling that anything is possible if we're only clever enough, smart enough, work hard enough.

We laugh, we weep, we hope, we fear,And that's the burden of a year.

We all have an interest, and a duty to future generations, to ensure that the benefits of mobility that we now take for granted, do not place an intolerable burden on our environment

God did not burden the United States with a diversity of backgrounds, ideas and religions, He blessed America with them.

I know that when you're a teenager - sometimes when you're an adult - what sets you apart can sometimes feel like a burden and it's not. And a lot of the time, it's what makes you great.

Mythologies become exhausting burdens, from a writer's perspective.

The unbosoming oneself to another is a kind of release to the soul, which strives to lighten its burden and find ease by throwing off the weight that lay heavy upon it.

Words can carry any burden we wish. All that's required is agreement and a tradition upon which to build.

He thought that the world would make more rapid progress without the burden of old people.

The society of the Culture-Philistines makes life a burden to exceptional men.

Not a sorrow, not a burden, not a temptation, not a bereavement, not a disappointment, not a care, not a groan or tear, but has its antidote in God's rich and inexhaustible resources.

I don't see any need to unduly burden the taxpayer.

Three helping one another, beare the burthen of sixe. [Three helping one another, bear the burden of six.]

Knowledge is no burden.

We believe that by removing a crippling debt burden we'll help millions of Africans improve their lives and grow their economies.

Now the long-feared Asiatic colossus takes its turn as world leader, and we--the white race--have become the yellow man's burden.Let us hope that he will treat us more kindly than we treated him.

Awareness of insanity does not make one any less insane. Awareness of drowning does not make one any less of a drowning person--it only adds the burden of panic

No parents will in that future time have the right to burden society with a malformed or mentally incompetent child.

The saving grace of all really great gifts is that the persons who bear their burden remain superior to what they have done, at least as long as the source of creativity is alive.

I don't think it feels like a burden. We did not really think of it ["Mary and Jane"] that way. I think it is certainly how we branded. The thing it does is enables us to be a little bit surreal.

Countries do not assume burdens because it is fair, only because it is necessary.