Burden Quotes - page 3

There is hardly any other sphere in which prejudice and superstition of the most horrific kind have been retained so long as in that of women, and just as it must have been an inexpressable relief for humanity when it shook off the burden of religious prejudice and superstition, I think it will be truly glorious when women become real people and have the whole world open before them. (Karen Blixen)
"My burden is light," said the blessed Redeemer, a light burden indeed, which carries him that bears it. I have looked through all nature for a resemblance of this, and seem to find a shadow of it in the wings of a bird, which are indeed borne by the creature, and yet support her flight towards heaven. View quote
Bernard of Clairvaux
...There are too many idiots in this world. And having said it, I have the burden of proving it. View quote
Frantz Fanon
American troops and American taxpayers are shouldering a huge burden with no end in sight because Mr. Bush took us to war on false premises and with no plan to win the peace. View quote
Al Gore
A man who murders another shortens by a few brief years the life of a human being; but he who votes to increase the burden of debts upon the people of the United States assumes a graver responsibility. View quote
William Jennings Bryan
Knowing something may be a terrible burden to bear, but it holds no danger to them as aren't afraid of truth. View quote
Orson Scott Card
One always treads with a joyful step when one has dropped the burden called the ego. View quote
Anthony de Mello
Placing on writers the responsibility to represent a culture is an onerous burden. View quote
Amy Tan
Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden. View quote
Corrie Ten Boom
Repression is an evolutionary adaptation permitting us to function under the burden of our expanded consciousness. For what we are conscious of could drive us mad. View quote
Camille Paglia
Considering mankind's indifference to freedom, their easy gullibility and their facile response to conditioning, one might very plausibly argue that collectivism is the political mode best suited to their disposition and their capacities. Under its regime, the citizen, like the soldier, is relieved of the burden of initiative and is divested of all responsibility, save for doing as he is told. (Albert Jay Nock)
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. View quote
Charles Spurgeon
This obligation to move can be a burden to a player without strategic vision. View quote
Garry Kasparov
The money cost of the reservoir plan literally fades into insignificance when it is compared with the financial burden which the great depression imposed on the nation. View quote
Benjamin Graham
If you could not accept the past and its burden, there was no future, for without one there cannot be the other, and [...] if you could accept the past you might hope for the future, for only out of the past can you make the future. View quote
Robert Penn Warren
The society of the Culture-Philistines makes life a burden to exceptional men. View quote
Georg Brandes
The burden of the incommunicable. View quote
Thomas De Quincey
The human mind is utterly stupid when it carries, quite willingly, the heavy burden of resentment. View quote
Sri Chinmoy
Gratitude is a burden upon our imperfect nature. View quote
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
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. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
Blessed are they who, in the calm moments of retirement, of worship, of prayer, of silent waiting, have found that to "the weary and heavy laden " Christ can indeed give rest; that compared with the heavy bondage of the world or the exactions of human systems, His yoke indeed is easy, and His burden is light. (Arthur Penrhyn Stanley)
God grant that as our horizon of duty is widened, our minds may widen with it; that as our burden is increased, our shoulders may be strengthened to bear it. God grant to us that spirit of wisdom and understanding, uprightness, and godly fear, without which, even in greatest things there is nothing; with which, even in the smallest things there is every thing. View quote
Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
God will not place a burden on a man's shoulders knowing that he cannot carry it. View quote
Muhammad Ali
And that, in a way, was the burden of being a philosopher: one knew what one had to do, but it was so often the opposite of what one really wanted to do. View quote
Alexander McCall Smith
Conventional nudes based on classical originals could bear no burden of thought or inner life without losing their formal completeness. View quote
Kenneth Clark