Burden Quotes - page 18

The prosecutor, who is supposed to carry the burden of proof, really is an author. (Scott Turow)
They both seemed to understand that describing it was beyond their powers, the gratitude that spreads through your body when a burden gets lifted, and the sense of homecoming that follows, when you suddenly remember what it feels like to be yourself. View quote
Tom Perrotta
When you're playing someone who really lived, you carry a burden, a burden to be accurate. But it's one that you have to let go of ultimately. View quote
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Your best retirement plan for retiring happy and prosperous - don't be a burden on others. View quote
Ernie J Zelinski
I can't say I'm thankful about being German because I sometimes experience it as a huge burden. But it is an integral part of me and I wouldn't want to escape it. I have accepted it. View quote
Bernhard Schlink
To separate oneself from the burden, the angst, the anguish that we all encounter everyday. To say I am alive, I am wonderful, I am. I am. That is something to aspire to. View quote
Garth Stein
The Toltec tradition tells us that we surrender a portion of our life force when we dwell on any unhealed wounding event from our past. The unprocessed emotions surrounding these events burden us and weigh heavily on our hearts. They must be dealt with if we want access to all of our vitality. Ultimately, what we will find is that forgiveness is the key to reclaiming all the life force locked in past hurt. View quote
Debbie Ford
When you were young, you thought time was a burden, something to be discharged as fast as possible so you could be grown-up. But it was such a bait-n-switch – when you were an adult, you came to realize that minutes and hours were the single most precious thing you had. View quote
J.R. Ward
Keep in mind that part of growing up is dealing with difficult issues, and the benefits can be great if you have the courage to ask for help. Human beings are not designed to go through life alone. No one has to bear the burden of tough times all by themselves. View quote
Jack Canfield
The burden of regret can weigh us down heavily on our spiritual journey. The best way to release regret is to forgive ourselves. View quote
James Van Praagh
Power comes with a price. It's a burden. It demands sacrifice. (Drew Karpyshyn)
You have to learn to fight for things, to bear the burden and have a life which does not in any way correspond to other peoples' lives. View quote
Emmanuel Macron
A lot of what children go through is because you adults don't carry the burden yourself. View quote
Laura Schlessinger
A donkey is a very useful beast of burden. View quote
Lawrence Wright
The aim is not therefore to liberate some 'essential self' by throwing off the burden of government and the State, but to develop the self in creative and voluntary relations with others. View quote
Peter Marshall
Superstition changes a man to a beast, fanaticism makes him a wild beast, and despotism a beast of burden. View quote
Jean-Francois de La Harpe
Man has been trained in the same way as animals. He has become an author, as they became beasts of burden. View quote
Julien Offray de La Mettrie
These incidents will never break down our determination nor undermine our achievements. Rather, they should encourage all parties to draw the necessary lessons and never detract from the imperative to continue our work with determination and enthusiasm because the dignity and invulnerability of Tunisia are a burden which are invested all Tunisian men and women. Thank you for your attention. View quote
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali
If royalty did not exist, the storm of strife would never subside, nor selfish ambition disappear. Mankind (is) under the burden of lawlessness and lust... View quote
Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak
When the international prices rise, we expect the government to cut its share of profit and its revenue earnings and share the burden of the increase with the common man. View quote
Arun Jaitley
All democracies, especially in developing countries that have considerable diversities and carry the burden of developmental imbalances, have had to grapple with one paramount challenge and that is : how to harmonies' the legitimate self – assertion of communities that suffered deprivation and dis-empowerment in the past with imperatives of good governance. (Atal Bihari Vajpayee)
Carrying a grudge is a heavy burden. As you forgive, you will feel the joy of being forgiven. View quote
Henry B. Eyring
"Much knowledge of the right sort is a dangerous thing for the poor," might have been the motto put up over the door of the village school in my day. The less book-learning the labourer's lad got stuffed into him, the better for him and the safer for those above him, was what those in authority believed and acted up to. I daresay they made themselves think somehow or other-perhaps by not thinking-that they were doing their duty in that state of life to which it had pleased God to call them, when they tried to numb his brain, as a preliminary to stunting his body later on, as stunt it they did, by forcing him to work like a beast of burden for a pittance. View quote
Joseph Arch
Sometimes, he thought wryly, a reputation for being right all the time could be a heavy burden. View quote
John Flanagan
Children are not a burden. View quote
Ziggy Marley