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Burden Quotes
"The burden of disease falls on the poor."
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"Because the world is in economic recession, which worsened since this drama happened, and our country will bear the burden of all of these consequences."
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"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."
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"Until you have lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is."
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"The perverse presumption that places the burden of proof on the challenger of spending must be inverted, back to the rule that applies elsewhere in life: 'Prove to me why we should.'"
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"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."
"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."
"Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated."
"OFSTED has made large cuts in the paperwork which schools are asked to provide and further steps to reduce the bureaucratic burden will be introduced in September."
"Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden."
"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."
"We are determined that our nation shall cease to be a burden on other countries but shall contribute positively to world prosperity, while observing fully the fair trade practices in international commerce."
"Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys."
"Brick and mortar businesses - and the communities that depend on them - cannot continue to bear an unfair sales tax burden from which their on-line competitors are effectively exempt."
"Remember, the burden of sorrow is doubled when it is borne alone."
"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."
"All communities have a right to clean water. The taxpayers of Pueblo should not have to carry the burden of the clean up cost simply because they live downstream."
"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."
"Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations."
"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."
"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."
"No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days."
"I think there have been some periods when the writing almost became a bit of a burden."
"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."
"The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest."
"The prosecutor, who is supposed to carry the burden of proof, really is an author."
"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."
"Plus, 40% of our debt is owned by foreign interest. I can't support a plan that passes along cost burden to our children and makes us more reliant on foreign dollars."
"Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way."
"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."
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