Burden Quotes

It is with obedience to your call that I take up the burden of government leadership for the final time.

Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.

Life is like unto a long journey with a heavy burden.

Please believe that I do this because I am convinced that my illness cannot be helped for any length of time and I cannot bear to be a burden on anyone any longer.

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.

There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.

The collective conscience of a hundred musicians is no light burden. Think for a moment of what it would mean to a pianist if by some miracle every key of his instrument should suddenly become a living thing.

The fact that the Arctic, more than any other populated region of the world, requires the collaboration of so many disciplines and points of view to be understood at all, is a benefit rather than a burden.

My kids say if there's any family dinner that doesn't result in somebody crying, it's not a good dinner. They cry because it helps relieve them of a guilt or some onerous emotional burden. It's like a family tradition.

There I was limited to what happened the same way I am with Riel. It doesn't feel like a great burden to have your story, to some degree, set. I am enjoying figuring out what I think is the most dramatic way of telling this set of historical facts.

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

The American people ask, and legitimately so, why should we carry the heavy burden to ensure international peace and stability. You also profit from it, so you should also take your share in the burden. That's Secretary Gates's message. I share that message.

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.

The prosecutor, who is supposed to carry the burden of proof, really is an author.

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.

If NASA is to reach beyond the Moon and someday reach Mars, it must be relieved of the burden of launching people and cargo to low earth orbit. To do that, we must invest more in commercial spaceflight.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

One can't erase the tremendous burden of apartheid in 10 years, 20 years, I believe, even 30 years.

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.

And I think most people in this country want to see a president that's got the courage to say we're going to cut the tax burden, and reduce the regulatory climate, and we're going to get Americans working.

Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot.

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.

Until you have lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.

History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.

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.

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.

I think there have been some periods when the writing almost became a bit of a burden.

Wall Street shouldn't be deregulated. I think Wall Street and Main Street need to play by the same set of rules. The middle-class can't carry the burden any longer, that is what happened in the last decade. They had to bail out Wall Street.

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.

There is no way to ease the burden. The voyage leads on from harm to harm, A land of others and of silence.