Burden Quotes - Page 27

• The heaviest burden that one has to bear in this life is the burden of delaying too long before putting the fruit in the Jell-O so it's too firm and the chunks just sit on top.

  Harold B. Lee

  Thanksgiving, Long, Fruit

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• Since ancient Time began,
  Ever on some great soul God laid an infinite burden--
  The weight of all this world, the hopes of man,
  Conflict and pain, and fame immortal are his guerdon.

  Richard Watson Gilder

  Pain, Men, Soul

  Richard Watson Gilder (1900). “Five Books of Song”

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• The ignorant and the deluded are, I think, in a strange way to be envied. That which is not known of does not trouble us, while an imagined but insubstantial peril does not harm us. To know the truths behind reality is a far greater burden.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Reality, Thinking, Ignorant

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• When I find a man who is not willing to pay his share of the burden of the government which protects him, I find a man who is unworthy to enjoy the blessings of a government like ours.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Blessing, Men, Pay

  Speech at Democratic National Convention, Chicago, Ill., 8 July 1896

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• I live an idle burden to the ground.

  Homer

  Idle, Idleness

  Homer (1806). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.290

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• We should strengthen the faith of our people in their own future, the faith of every Canadian in Canada, and of every province in its sister province. This faith wrongs no one; burdens no one; menaces no one; dishonors no one; and, as it was said of old, faith moves mountains, so I venture reverently to express my own belief that if the difficulties of our future as a dominion were as high as the peaks of the Alps or Andes, yet that the pure patriotic faith of a united people would be all sufficient to overcome and ultimately to triumph over all such difficulties.

  Thomas D'Arcy McGee

  Moving, Patriotic, People

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• The power of the state to impose restraints and burdens upon persons and property in conservation and promotion of the public health, good order, and prosperity is a power originally and always belonging to the states, not surrendered to them by the general government, nor directly restrained by the constitution of the United States, and essentially exclusive.

  Melville Fuller

  Government, Order, United States

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• Knowledge is no burden.

  George Herbert

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.349

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• I don't really believe in pretending to be happy when you're not. Mostly I believe that you should burden your friends with your problems.

  Barbara Park

  Friends, Believe, Problem

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• There are plenty of good Indian writers in English, and none of us feel we are carrying the burden of being a poster boy.

  Vikram Seth

  Boys, Posters, Feels

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• And, I know that I'll hear from them for this. But, throwing God out successfully with the help of the federal court system, throwing God out of the public square, out of the schools. The abortionists have got to bear some burden for this because God will not be mocked. And when we destroy 40 million little innocent babies, we make God mad.

  Jerry Falwell

  Religious, Baby, Humor

  "The 700 Club" with Pat Robertson, September 13, 2001.

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• Nobody needs to justify why they "need" a right: the burden of justification falls on the one seeking to infringe upon the right. But even if they did, you can't give away the rights of others because they're not useful to you. More simply, the majority cannot vote away the natural rights of the minority. Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say.

  Edward Snowden

  Fall, Rights, Giving

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. May 21, 2015.

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• I feel that if I am freed of the burden of politics, then I can do more and I can take more unpopular decisions. I can have as my guidance for decision whatever is right, not whatever is popular.

  Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

  Decision, Guidance, Feels

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• Growing up, I thought wearing a suit was a burden.

  Vincent Piazza

  Growing Up, Suits, Wearing A Suit

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• Define self-awareness and tell me what it is about it that requires something more than a material explanation. I do not accept the burden of explaining all phenomena, real or imagined. If you think more than matter is required for this thing you call self-awareness, which you have not defined, then you have the burden of showing why.

  Victor J. Stenger

  Real, Thinking, Self

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• every issue that we deal with in this country has a moral component to it. And so, to divorce a moral component to the debt burden we're leaving the next generation, the tax structure to how we spend our money in Washington, and how we - you know, how we value human life - I mean, all of those things, to me interrelate. They're not - they're not separate issues.

  Rick Santorum

  Country, Mean, Divorce

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• If you're ever if you're ever thinking, “Oh, but I'm a waste of space and I'm a burden,” remember: that also describes the Grand Canyon. Why don't you have friends and family take pictures of you from a safe distance? Revel in your majestic profile?

  Maria Bamford

  Inspirational, Family, Distance

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• Black women are supposed to be 'strong,' but the burden of carrying our race and carrying our families adds the pressure.

  Aunjanue Ellis

  Strong, Race, Black

  "Aunjanue Ellis on 'Abducted: The Carlina White Story'". Interview with Melanie Yvette, www.ebony.com. October 2, 2012.

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• Fewer and fewer people are paying larger and larger percentage of the tax burden, as you know, almost half the people pay no income taxes at all. We're going to have more people in the wagon than we got pulling the wagon before long and that's not going to work. Those jobless numbers, you know, go hand-in-hand with those tax numbers.

  Fred Thompson

  Numbers, Hands, Long

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• As labor is the common burden of our race, so the effort of some to shift their share of the burden onto the shoulders of others is the great durable curse of the race.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Race, Effort, Common

  Abraham Lincoln, H. C. Whitney, United States. President (1861-1865 : Lincoln) (1907). “Speeches and debates, 1856-1858”

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• We are here because we are made by God, we will return to God. So people who think that they are something, they are totally wrong. And this is the most beautiful thing in life, it is that we don't own anything. So, everything is ours in the sense that we have the world to explore and not things to carry, a burden to carry.

  Paulo Coelho

  Beautiful, Thinking, Things In Life

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• Sometimes I find it too hot to run, and sometimes too cold. Or too cloudy. But I still go running. I know that if I didn't go running, I wouldn't go the next day either. It's not in human nature to take unnecessary burdens upon oneself, so one's body soon becomes disaccustomed. It mustn't do that. It's the same with writing. I write every day so that my mind doesn't become disaccustomed.

  Haruki Murakami

  Running, Writing, Next Day

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• What sets black people apart is not some deficit in personal responsibility. It's the weight on our shoulders. That is what's actually different. We have the weight and burden of history.

  Ta-Nehisi Coates

  Responsibility, People, Black

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Any tear shed in sharing the heartbeat of God, any tear shed through Christlike loving empathy with our fellowmen, any tear born of the yearning constraint of the Holy Spirit is a tear by which we serve the Lord. Nothing pleases Christ more than for us to share with Him His burden for the world and its people. Nothing so weds us to the heart of Christ as our tears shed as we intercede for lost ones with Him. Then truly we become people after God's own heart. Then we begin to know what it is to be Christ's prayer partners.

  Wesley L Duewel

  Prayer, Heart, Lost Ones

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

  Donald Rumsfeld

  President, Benefits, Wells

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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