Burden Quotes
"Never speak of me in the past tense". My presence here will be many times greater without the burden of my tortured body.
With those who are willing to join, let us cooperate to reduce the burden of arms, to strengthen the structure of peace, to lift up the poor and the hungry.
The strength of a friendship can be measured by the weight of the burden it's willing to share. (If you want to test this just ask someone to help you move.)
Since ancient Time began, Ever on some great soul God laid an infinite burden-- The weight of all this world, the hopes of man, Conflict and pain, and fame immortal are his guerdon.
The first duty of man is to support himself - to see to it that he does not become a burden. His next duty is to help others if he has a surplus, and if he really believes they deserve to be helped.
Anyone can carry their burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do their work, however hard, for one day.
The problem with being Irish... is having 'Riverdance' on your back. It's a burden at times.
I like being a mother. For some people, it's so much work that it can be a burden. But it's not for me, maybe because I had my daughter, Valentina, later on in life, at 41.
Those who can take that crabbed tree handsomely upon their back, and fasten it on cannily, shall find it such a burden as wings unto a bird, or sails to a ship.
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.
I'm sorry to burden you,' she said. She felt like a crybaby. 'What can we do with our stories,' he said, 'but tell them?
Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
The human mind is utterly stupid when it carries, quite willingly, the heavy burden of resentment.
Anguish devours the mind, and furious rage, and hope than which the heart can bear no heavier burden, when it is long deferred.
Relative to the world's other advance democracies, Americans get off easy on tax day. Of the 35 richest countries, the U.S. ranks 32nd in total tax burden.
Horrible things happen when you run out of other people's money, and life and work becomes a burden when there is no reward for your effort.
If you want less of something, tax it. If you want more of something, don't tax it or reduce the tax burden.
All for each, and each for all, is a good motto; but only on condition that each works with might and main to so maintain himself as not to be a burden to others.
Cast off the burden of sin and you will find within you the upward path that will make your ascent possible.
I try not to take on the weight or the burden of it. Once it's on the paper, I try to leave it, because I want to surrender to what I'm supposed to write about.
I think the African American community, the Latino community, the Native American communities have borne an unfair burden in the last century, and continue to.
I think the Muslim community is now being asked to bear an unfair burden to save a great faith from the fundamentalists and a great nation from bigotry.
There are plenty of good Indian writers in English, and none of us feel we are carrying the burden of being a poster boy.
I bear a burden that might well try Men that do all by rule, And what can I That am a wandering-witted fool But pray to God that He ease My great responsibilities?
The war-function has grasped us so far; but the constructive interests may some day seem no less imperative, and impose on the individual a hardly lighter burden.
When I find a man who is not willing to pay his share of the burden of the government which protects him, I find a man who is unworthy to enjoy the blessings of a government like ours.
If your judgement is clouded, you must be carrying too many things which are being a burden to you.
God is an hypothesis, and, as such, stands in need of proof: the onus probandi rests on the theist.
Hatred is a burden that can hunt you day by day, robbing you off your personal joy in broad day light.
He said, one time, that no true leader burdened his followers with a greater load than they could carry, and no true leader sets too fast a pace for his follows to keep up.
Forgiveness allows the burdens that we carry to become the histories that we forget.
Free yourself from the burden of feeling the need to hold on to anything. Let go… you are a part of everything.