Best 391 quotes in «burden quotes» category

I did all the work at the beginning up until the point where I couldn't handle the increasingly heavy art production burden alone. I needed, and got, assistance.

I dislike paying taxes as much as anyone, but yes, taxes are the price of civilization. There is no America without taxes. The question isn't, "Do we want to have taxes?" The question is, "How heavy is the burden, and who bears that burden"?

I don't carry the burden of the past or the madness of the future. I live in the present.

I don't live under the burden of worries. Problems and challenges are there, you can't deny that. But you must challenge the challenges and not let the challenges turn into worries.

If men should read these words, let them know that power is a heavy burden. Seek not to be bound by its chains.

If 85 percent of Russians support the annexation of Crimea and the aggression against Ukraine, that is a very bad sign. The post-Soviet legacy is a heavy burden: Most Russians want to have the empire back. The only way it is possible to make that happen is to seize foreign territories.

If it is the duty of the State to educate, it is the duty of the State also to bear the burden of education, namely, the taxation out of which education is provided.

I feel that if I am freed of the burden of politics, then I can do more and I can take more unpopular decisions. I can have as my guidance for decision whatever is right, not whatever is popular.

If not for the cost burdens of fear we would all be living in paradise

If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.

If you tell your troubles to God, you put them into the grave; they will never rise again when you have committed them to Him. If you roll your burden anywhere else, it will roll back again like the stone of Sisyphus.

If there's a new idea, a new invention, or a new gas, or a new whatever you know, It should be brought at least into the open instead of carrying these same old burdens around with you.

If your judgement is clouded, you must be carrying too many things which are being a burden to you.

If you want less of something, tax it. If you want more of something, don't tax it or reduce the tax burden.

I had to satisfy the action fans, the romantic fans, the intellectual fans. It was a terrific burden.

I go for all sharing the privileges of the government who assist in bearing its burdens.

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?

I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility.

I love my kids. But I don't give them the burden of being the source of my love.

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.

I live an idle burden to the ground.

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

Imperialism was genuinely popular among Athenians who would expect to share in its profits, even if only indirectly and collectively, and not to have to bear its burdens.

INJUSTICE, n. A burden which of all those that we load upon others and carry ourselves is lightest in the hands and heaviest upon the back.

In a nutshell, when life is pleasant, think of others. When life is a burden, think of others.

In the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each is serving the others, seeking one another's good, and bearing one another's burdens.

Intelligence rules the world, ignorance carries the burden.

I say, if you're going to eat a creature alive, you have to expect some screaming. That is the carnivore's burden.

I received my money from the treasury, I used to very early to go the clubs, but when the burden of looking after my children came upon me I tried to live a quite life, and save as much as I could.

I relax and cast aside all mental burdens, allowing God to express through me His perfect love, peace, and wisdom.

It has been petrified into a slavery of thought and sentiment, as intolerant superiority on the part of the few and an intolerable burden on the part of the many.

I still believe in love. I always will. It's my blessing and my burden.

I think Chris Burden is terrific. I really do.

I think, being a public figure - which, I have to admit, I guess I'm largely responsible for, in terms of going out and putting myself out there - comes with its own burdens, and its own things that cause you stress, and its own worries.

I think to be driven to want to kill must be such a terrible burden.

I think I’m greedy, but I’m not greedy for money - I think that can be a burden - I’m greedy for an exciting life.

It is notorious that the memory strengthens as you lay burdens upon it, and becomes trustworthy as you trust it.

It is a good sign when He burdens us with [crosses] and we carry them well, but woe to the person who runs away from them, for he will find such heavy ones that they will overwhelm him.

It is not the weight of the future or the past that is pressing upon you, but ever that of the present alone. Even this burden, too, can be lessened if you confine it strictly to its own limits.

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

It's also important to develop a burden for the lost.

It's not the burden of your mate or anyone else to heal your emotional issues.

It's true across the U.K. that those who had least to do with causing the economic crisis are carrying the heaviest burden. That's unacceptable.

It's very hard, when you're a famous person, to "de-famous" your home, but tokens of my fame just felt like a burden for my children. And for me.

It is the will of God that we must have critics and missionaries and congressmen and humorists, and we must bear the burden

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.

I've always wanted to land a 1080, it's been a beast of a burden for me.

It would be good if we bore one another's burdens.

It will be sufficient to point to the enormous burdens which armaments place on the economic, social, and intellectual resources of a nation, as well as on its budget and taxes.

Labour may be a burden and a chastisement, but it is also an honour and a glory. Without it, nothing can be accomplished.