Burden Quotes - page 2

A prosperous fool is a grievous burden. (Aeschylus)
It is with obedience to your call that I take up the burden of government leadership for the final time. View quote
Kamisese Mara
Tom appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash and a long-handled brush. He surveyed the fence, and all gladness left him and a deep melancholy settled down upon his spirit. Thirty yards of board fence nine feet high. Life to him seemed hollow, and existence but a burden. View quote
Mark Twain
O most grateful burden, which comforts them that carry it! The burdens of earthly masters gradually wear out the strength of those who carry them; but the burden of Christ assists the bearers of it, because we carry not grace, but grace us. View quote
John Chrysostom
My happiness has to come from within myself or it is too fragile a thing to be of any use to me and too much of a burden to benefit any of my loved ones. View quote
Mary Balogh
Competition in armament, both land and naval, is not only a terrible burden upon the people, but I believe it to be one of the greatest menaces to the peace of the world. View quote
Frank B. Kellogg
I feel sometimes that in children's books there are more and more grim problems, but I don't know that I want to burden third- and fourth-graders with them. View quote
Beverly Cleary
Life is like unto a long journey with a heavy burden. View quote
Ieyasu Tokugawa
If the Administration does nothing, high gasoline prices will continue to increasingly burden our economy, taking millions of dollars out of the hands of families and putting it straight into the pockets of OPEC. View quote
Byron Dorgan
Hospitals are closing across the country due to the burden of illegal immigration, college students find that summer jobs have dried up due to illegal immigration, and wages across the board are depressed by the overwhelming influx of cheap and illegal labor. View quote
Elton Gallegly
The poorest residents of the gulf coast were most affected by the devastating hurricanes, and the poorest Americans have shouldered a disproportionate share of the burden in Iraq. (Marty Meehan)
Assist a man in raising a burden; but do not assist him in laying it down. View quote
Pythagoras
If your judgement is clouded, you must be carrying too many things which are being a burden to you. View quote
Yoko Ono
Deleting 200 spams a day is a drag. And I was checking my email constantly, rather than getting on with my real work, which is reading and writing. Email was becoming a distraction, a burden rather than a liberation. View quote
Tom Hodgkinson
Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us. View quote
Samuel Smiles
The problem was, I enjoyed Question Period too much and loved the challenge it provided. Far from being a dreaded burden, it had become an exciting part of my life; opposition members attacked me, I fought back, I won or lost or held them to draw, and the next day we did it all over again. View quote
Jean Chrétien
One must never allow oneself to acquire an exaggerated sense of one's own importance. There's no necessity to burden oneself with absolutes. View quote
Ayn Rand
At first, being a female role model really terrified me. But it hasn't turned out to be an awful burden. I get a lot of letters from women who tell me that, after watching Xena, they have bought the Harley-Davidson they always wanted or left an abusive relationship. View quote
Lucy Lawless
Up until I came here this week, and I met so many women and young girls who feel, to use their word - and I'm a bit embarrassed, but it's a good word - empowered, by watching. I realized this isn't a burden, this is an honor. View quote
Lucy Lawless
America is ripe for lies and lethargy. The pure mountain air is going and gone. It is a huge burden and a sadness for us all. View quote
Ralph Steadman
Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare. (Oriana Fallaci)
The world is not changing if you don't shoulder the burden of responsibility. View quote
Ai Weiwei
The Samoan puts the burden of amatory success upon the man and believes that women need more initiating, more time for maturing of sexual feeling. A man who fails to satisfy a woman is looked upon as a clumsy, inept blunderer. View quote
Margaret Mead
Words change their meanings, just as organisms evolve. We would impose an enormous burden on our economy if we insisted on payment in cattle every time we identified a bonus as a pecuniary advantage (from the Latin pecus, or cattle, a verbal fossil from a former commercial reality). View quote
Stephen Jay Gould
My object, having a surplus to deal with, is to consider how I can deal with it to the greatest advantage to the consumer- how, without inflicting any injury on Canada, I can secure the most substantial benefit to this country, to the manufacturing, to the commercial, and to the agricultural interests...The real way in which we can benefit the working and manufacturing classes is, unquestionably, by removing the burden that presses on the springs of manufactures and commerce. View quote
Robert Peel