Burden Quotes - Page 11

The ability to see the future can be a burden, and the younger you are and the more isolated you feel, maybe the more of a burden it is.

It has been petrified into a slavery of thought and sentiment, as intolerant superiority on the part of the few and an intolerable burden on the part of the many.

Leadership involves the heavy burden of responsibility, and the fear of getting it wrong can paralyze a leader.

It's true across the U.K. that those who had least to do with causing the economic crisis are carrying the heaviest burden. That's unacceptable.

She had loved him. He knew this; he had never doubted it. But she had also asked him to kill her. If you love someone that much, you did not lay that sort of burden on him for the rest of his life.

God doesn't give people burdens they can't handle.

If there's a new idea, a new invention, or a new gas, or a new whatever you know, It should be brought at least into the open instead of carrying these same old burdens around with you.

I wouldn't burden any decent system of faith by participating in it... I'm not agnostic. Just nonpartisan. Theological Switzerland, that's me.

Music shouldn't be a chore or feel like any kind of burden.

Who had the bigger burden? The one who had to watch the other person endure or the one who endured?

He sobbed in desperation at the burden of fear he carried with him every day of his life.

Musical types tend to combine the burden of the author with the burden of the actor.

I suppose there was never yet a woman who had not somewhere set up on a pedestal in her brain an ideal of manhood. ... He never is finished till the brain of his creator ceases to work, till she has added her last touch to him, and has laid down the burden of life and gone elsewhere, perhaps to some happy land where ideals are more frequently realised than ever happens here.

People should meet an acceptable threshold of appropriateness. But for many women in the public eye, it just seems that the burden is so heavy.

As long as I have the friendship of the sesasons life will never be a burden to me.

Countries do not assume burdens because it is fair, only because it is necessary.

Knowledge is no burden.

A willingness to engage in the give and take of argument displays a commitment to cognitive egalitarianism - the proposition that all people should be treated as intellectual equals, and that no individual can legitimately claim a privileged immunity from the burden of proof.

I don't see any need to unduly burden the taxpayer.

The society of the Culture-Philistines makes life a burden to exceptional men.

Mythologies become exhausting burdens, from a writer's perspective.

We laugh, we weep, we hope, we fear,And that's the burden of a year.

Every burden on the back can become a gift in the hand.

Power comes with a price. It's a burden. It demands sacrifice.

Every president when he is elected has to live with the pluses and minuses his predecessor leaves, which includes benefits as well as burdens.