We have used the Bible as if it were a mere special constable's handbook, an opium dose for keeping beasts of burden patient while they are overloaded.
~By Charles Kingsley ~
If you love your children, if you love your country, if you love the God of love, clear your hands from slaves, burden not your children or your country with them.
~By Richard V. Allen ~
People expect a lot more from someone they think looks interesting. It's a burden.
~By Catherine Deneuve ~
The dreadful burden of having nothing to do.
~By Nicolas Boileau ~
Why isn't it natural for people who have lived and worked at something to want to use the knowledge and capacity in a new way, free from the burden of making a living?
~By James Rouse ~
Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and... the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
To lose a son under those circumstances - a violent death like my son went through, it just puts a burden on your heart.
~By Brian Jones ~
Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot.
~By Bob Dylan ~
The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out his best energy, that he may be able to bear the burden.
~By Phillips Brooks ~
Let me start by emphasizing that I am open to efforts to expedite environmental procedures for true emergencies or in other clear cases where current laws are needlessly burdensome.
~By Sherwood Boehlert ~
Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.
~By Isaac Asimov ~
Rising health care spending occurs because it is beneficial, not a burden on the economy.
~By Robert Hall ~
Fortunately, historians are now beginning to recognise the historic role of Islam as a liberating force for peoples oppressed by the burdens of unjust social systems.
~By Aly Khan ~
If someone wants to give you, like, $100 million, it's hard to say no. But I don't want to accept that kind of money right now. I'd feel burdened by it.
~By Michelle Wie ~
I am in favor of carrying out the Declaration of Independence to women as well as men. Women having to suffer the burdens of society and government should have their equal rights in it. They do not receive their rights in full proportion.
~By Leland Stanford ~
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
~By John F. Kennedy ~
The prosecutor, who is supposed to carry the burden of proof, really is an author.
~By Scott Turow ~
The earth has grown old with its burden of care, but at Christmas it always is young, the heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair, and its soul full of music breaks the air, when the song of angels is sung.
~By Phillips Brooks ~
When we are sure that we are on the right road there is no need to plan our journey too far ahead. No need to burden ourselves with doubts and fears as to the obstacles that may bar our progress. We cannot take more than one step at a time.
~By Orison Swett Marden ~
Now that copyrights can be just about a century long, the inability to know what is protected and what is not protected becomes a huge and obvious burden on the creative process.
~By Lawrence Lessig ~
Reducing the tax burden is necessary to produce economic growth.
~By Bob Schaffer ~
It is entirely undemocratic to continue these burdens on the people for years and years after the requirements of protection have been met and the representatives of these industries have become incrusted with wealth.
~By John Griffin Carlisle ~
It is with obedience to your call that I take up the burden of government leadership for the final time.
~By Kamisese Mara ~
Every burden is a blessing.
~By Walt Kelly ~
As they work hard for our children, America's teachers often reach into their own pockets to make sure they have the best classroom supplies. I feel strongly that the federal government should help make up for their personal financial burden.
~By John Warner ~
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.
~By Ludwig Quidde ~
The burden which is well borne becomes light.
~By Ovid ~
I came here as a practical man, to talk, not simply on the question of peace and war, but to treat another question which is of hardly less importance - the enormous and burdensome standing armaments which it is the practice of modern Governments to sustain in time of peace.
~By Richard Cobden ~
No other country in the world gives protection like that, but it is not absolute protection. People sometimes meet that high burden and win libel suits, and in those cases I think they ought to win.
~By Floyd Abrams ~
Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.
~By Maya Angelou ~
When I got the money, the whole burden descended on me, and the realization of what I had done. And it led me then to make the further step, a change of loyalties.
~By Aldrich Ames ~
Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.
~By Samuel Smiles ~
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.
~By Kamisese Mara ~
Soaring prescription drug costs have placed a tremendous strain on family budgets. They have also imposed a heavy burden on employers - both public and private - who are struggling to provide affordable health insurance coverage to their workers.
~By Susan Collins ~
What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.
~By Voltaire ~
Many students graduate from college and professional schools, including those of social work, nursing, medicine, teaching and law, with crushing debt burdens.
~By Jon Porter ~
One of the advantages of appearing in such a play is that you begin to understand it properly, I feel Ophelia's tragedy was that she had been so used by everybody and felt that she bore a great burden of guilt.
~By Lalla Ward ~
What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.
~By Dag Hammarskjold ~
Respect the burden.
~By Napoleon Bonaparte ~
I really can't hate more than 5 or 10 years. Wouldn't it be terrible to be always burdened with those primary emotions you had at one time?
~By Han Suyin ~
In the pregnancy process I have come to realize how much of the burden is on the female partner. She's got a construction zone going on in her belly.
~By Al Roker ~
In a government whose distinguishing characteristic should be a diffusion and equalization of its benefits and burdens the advantage of individuals will be augmented at the expense of the community at large.
~By Martin Van Buren ~
If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.
~By John Acton ~
None so little enjoy themselves, and are such burdens to themselves, as those who have nothing to do. Only the active have the true relish of life.
~By William Jennings Bryan ~
I think we have a number of young people - like yourself - who want to make a difference. I'm not sure the numbers are as large because I think the burden of getting elected to public office at the national level has become astronomically expensive.
~By Birch Bayh ~
It is no secret that our tax code is drastically outdated and burdensome to all Americans. Fortunately, more and more people are aware daily of the inequities that arise from things such as the estate tax, and it has come to the forefront of Congress' agenda.
~By Jeff Miller ~
While there are many influences on gas prices in America, I believe the passage of a national energy bill will help relieve this burden on our country.
~By Paul Gillmor ~
The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility.
~By Georges Bataille ~
Proceeding further, to inquire whether the facts related by the Four Evangelists are proved by competent and satisfactory evidence, we are led, first, to consider on which side lies the burden of establishing the credibility of the witnesses.
~By Simon Greenleaf ~
It is the tendency of the social burdens to crush out the middle class, and to force society into an organization of only two classes, one at each social extreme.
~By William Graham Sumner ~
Nothing is more useless in developing a nation's economy than a gun, and nothing blocks the road to social development more than the financial burden of war. War is the arch enemy of national progress and the modern scourge of civilized men.
~By King Hussein I ~
The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction.
~By Allen Ginsberg ~
Placing on writers the responsibility to represent a culture is an onerous burden.
~By Amy Tan ~
There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
~By Petrarch ~
In addition to relieving patient suffering, research is needed to help reduce the enormous economic and social burdens posed by chronic diseases such as osteoporosis, arthritis, diabetes, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases, cancer, heart disease, and stroke.
~By Ike Skelton ~
Most of us feel overburdened by information, although I would say the overloaded feeling comes more from coordinating all of the information and responding to it.
~By David Rose ~
Traditionally, Medicare's assurance has been that for the elderly and persons with disabilities that they will not be alone when confronted with the full burden of their health care costs.
~By Mike Fitzpatrick ~
That is why I strongly believe we should working in Congress to make America a better place to run a business by reducing the costly burdens of bureaucracy and red tape.
~By Michael K. Simpson ~
Do not free the camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.
~By M. Kathleen Casey ~
The natural movement of one's soul is upwards. But just as any object is dragged down when a heavy weight is tied to it, the burden of the body drags down the soul.
~By Vinoba Bhave ~
We must have a relentless commitment to producing a meaningful, comprehensive energy package aimed at conservation, alleviating the burden of energy prices on consumers, decreasing our country's dependency on foreign oil, and increasing electricity grid reliability.
~By Paul Gillmor ~
Life is like unto a long journey with a heavy burden.
~By Ieyasu Tokugawa ~
If it is a relief to take your clothes off at night, be sure that something is wrong. Clothes should not be a burden. They should be a comfort and a protection.
~By Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards ~
For small businesses, regulatory burdens can be overwhelming.
~By Michael K. Simpson ~
One of the reasons, surely, why women have been credited with less perfect veracity than men is that the burden of conventional falsehood falls chiefly on them.
~By Katharine Fullerton Gerould ~
For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease; he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness.
~By Aeschylus ~
It's hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy and relatively normal, but when you add on some kind of disability or disease, it can just be such a burden.
~By Patricia Heaton ~
We finally sat down and asked ourselves how much of our lives we wanted to give everybody. We had just given a little too much, and it started to become a burden.
~By Brian Austin Green ~
Being at the centre of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with trepidation.
~By Daniel Day Lewis ~
When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor.
~By Lyndon B. Johnson ~
Until you have lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.
~By Margaret Mitchell ~
Almost all the ideas we have about being a man or being a woman are so burdened with pain, anxiety, fear and self-doubt. For many of us, the confusion around this question is excruciating.
~By Andrew Cohen ~
For reforms ameliorate the situation of the working class, they lighten the weight of the chains labour is burdened with by capitalism, but they are not sufficient to crush capitalism and to emancipate the workers from their tyranny.
~By Clara Zetkin ~
People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
Much is said about the burdens and responsibilities of married men. Responsibilities indeed there are, if they but felt them: but as to burdens what are they?
~By Ernestine Rose ~
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.
~By Beverly Cleary ~
Think twice before burdening a friend with a secret.
~By Marlene Dietrich ~
Many of those who once were so passionately in love with Christ now run about pursuing their own interests. They're burdened down with stress and problems, chasing after riches and the things of this world.
~By David Wilkerson ~
The burden of proof is now on the Palestinians... They must fight terrorism and dismantle its infrastructures in order to make possible progress on the roadmap.
~By Kjell Magne Bondevik ~
Information is a source of learning. But unless it is organized, processed, and available to the right people in a format for decision making, it is a burden, not a benefit.
~By William Pollard ~
Well, where is the money? Show me the money? Our allies have put up a few billion dollars, but the American taxpayer has been required to shoulder the burden of this war.
~By Jim Cooper ~
One way we gave small businesses more money to invest was by extending tax provisions on expensing. This allows businesses to immediately write off things like equipment, without being burdened by depreciation requirements.
~By Dennis Hastert ~
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.
~By J. M. Roberts ~
My kids are not known, and I think that is very important. So far they have lived a normal life, and will continue to do so. I feel they should have the possibility to live a free life without the burden of fame I have created.
~By Michael Schumacher ~
When I was a kid, no one would believe anything positive that you could say about black people. That's a terrible burden.
~By Kareem Abdul-Jabbar ~
Bad leadership during the past years has cast on our Party the shadow of great and grave burdens.
~By Janos Kadar ~
I think there have been some periods when the writing almost became a bit of a burden.
~By Leo Ornstein ~
I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility and to discharge my duties as king as I would wish to do without the help and support of the woman I love.
~By Edward VIII ~
The National Flood Insurance Program is a voluntary program. If a community really feels that the building insurance requirements are too burdensome, they don't have to participate.
~By Earl Blumenauer ~
The practice of patience toward one another, the overlooking of one another's defects, and the bearing of one another's burdens is the most elementary condition of all human and social activity in the family, in the professions, and in society.
~By Lawrence G. Lovasik ~
The burden of the past is only, I think, oppressive when you've got to go on the experience of the avant garde.
~By Jonathan Miller ~
The most powerful person is he who is able to do least himself and burden others most with the things for which he lends his name and pockets the credit.
~By Theodor Adorno ~
If our soldiers are not overburdened with money, it is not because they have a distaste for riches; if their lives are not unduly long, it is not because they are disinclined to longevity.
~By Sun Tzu ~
It is a high patriotic duty that we support and sustain the men who have been placed in position of difficulty, burden, responsibility, and even danger as the result of our suffrages.
~By Bainbridge Colby ~
To the extent that I considered the personal burden of harming the people who had trusted me, plus the Agency, or the United States, I wasn't processing that.
~By Aldrich Ames ~
It is important to recognize and politics positive thinking is often the slaves' virtue - something that people do to con themselves about the burden and change being placed upon them.
~By James Bovard ~
You are part of that horrid expression, the best and the brightest. It can be a terrible burden if you let it be, but it is the great challenge of your time. And being a warrior in that challenge should be wondrous.
~By Paul Tsongas ~
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.
~By Joe Shuster ~
The burden of disease falls on the poor.
~By Gro Harlem Brundtland ~
We shouldn't have to be burdened with all the technicalities that come up from time to time with shrewd, smart lawyers interpreting what the laws or what the Constitution may or may not say.
~By Dan Quayle ~
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