Burden Quotes - Page 40

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

  Georg Brandes

  Men, Culture, Exceptional

  Georg Brandes (2015). “Friedrich Nietzsche (English Edition)”, p.6, WILLIAM HEINEMANN

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• His goodness stands approved,Unchanged from day to day;I'll drop my burden at His feet,And bear a song away.

  Philip Doddridge

  Song, Feet, Bears

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• What writers do is they tell their own story constantly through other people's stories. They imagine other people, and those other people are carrying the burden of their struggles, their questions about themselves.

  Tobias Wolff

  Struggle, Writing, People

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• Modern man is weighed down more by the burden of responsibility than by the burden of sin. We think him more a savior who shoulders our responsibilities than him who shoulders our sins. If instead of making decisions we have but to obey and do our duty, we feel it as a sort of salvation.

  Eric Hoffer

  Responsibility, Men, Thinking

  "The Passionate State Of Mind, and Other Aphorisms". Book by Eric Hoffer. Section 84, 1955.

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• While it is very sturdy of comfortable men to point out that life is unfair, the people it is unfair to are not apt to be morally or philosophically elevated by the announcement. If you are going to preach that unfairness is inescapable for some, good sense suggests that you also accept the inevitability of beastly behavior by people who have to carry the burden.

  Russell Baker

  Men, People, Life Is

  "So This Is Depravity and Other Observations". Book by Russell Baker, 1980.

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• Let us trust in Him who has placed this burden upon us. What we ourselves cannot bear let us bear with the help of Christ. For He is all-powerful, and He tells us: 'My yoke is easy, and my burden light.'

  Saint Boniface

  Powerful, Light, Yoke

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• I write to withdraw as a nominee to serve as an Associate Justice on the Supreme Court of the United States. ... I am concerned that the confirmation process presents a burden for the White House and our staff that is not in the best interest of the country.

  Harriet Miers

  Country, Writing, White

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• If you're always under the pressure of real identity, I think that is somewhat of a burden.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Real, Thinking, Identity

  "Facebook's 10th birthday: from college dorm to 1.23 billion users" by Jemima Kiss, www.theguardian.com. February 4, 2014.

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• The colossus of World War II seemed to be like a pyramid turned upside down, and for the moment the whole burden of the war rested on the few hundred German fighter pilots on the Channel coast.

  Adolf Galland

  War, Pyramids, World

  Adolf Galland (1954). “The first and the last: the rise and fall of the German fighter forces, 1938-1945”

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

  Jill Scott

  Kind, Feels, Chores

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• Strengthen your mind and refuse to carry the burden of mental and moral weakness acquired in past years; burn them in the fires of your present divine resolutions and right activities. By this constructive attitude you will attain freedom.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Attitude, Past, Fire

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• The Samoan puts the burden of amatory success upon the man and believes that women need more initiating, more time for maturing of sexual feeling. A man who fails to satisfy a woman is looked upon as a clumsy, inept blunderer.

  Margaret Mead

  Believe, Men, Feelings

  Margaret Mead (1973). “Coming of Age in Samoa”

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• We've gone from a preponderance of acute and infectious disease as a source of premature death to chronic diseases, which are the preponderance of the burden of illness in most of the world. That puts a much higher premium on the prevention of chronic disease than ever in history.

  Harvey V. Fineberg

  Gone, World, Prevention

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• I wish to be up and doing. I wish to face each day with resolution and purpose. I wish to use every waking hour to give encouragement, to bless those whose burdens are heavy, to build faith and strength of testimony.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Encouragement, Work, Giving

  "Testimony". Ensign magazine, p. 69, May 1998.

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• It is my view that what is important is cutting government spending, however spending is financed. A so-called deficit is a disguised and hidden form of taxation. The real burden on the public is what government spends (and mandates others to spend). As I have said repeatedly, I would rather have government spend one trillion dollars with a deficit of a half a trillion than have government spend two trillion dollars with no deficit.

  Milton Friedman

  Real, Cutting, Government

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• But then everyone would be burdened and pained. They don't want that. And that's the real reason The Receiver is so vital to them, and so honored. They selected me--and you-to lift that burden from themselves.

  Lois Lowry

  Real, Would Be, Want

  Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver Quartet Omnibus”, p.104, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• God is not an obligation or burden. God is the joy of my life!

  Mychal Judge

  Joy, Obligation

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• A pretty woman is a Christmas tree,' my mother told me in the airport. This fella is hanging things on my branches as his gaze sweeps from my face all the way down my body to my hips and then back to my face. Ideas fly from his widened eyes and land on me like teeny, decorative burdens. He is giving me shyness, maybe, some book smarts, and a certain yielding sweetness in bed. The oil-slick eyes get me, and I find myself hanging a few ornaments myself, giving him deft hands and a sense of humor.

  Joshilyn Jackson

  Mother, Smart, Book

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• She realized with deep respect that this woman had always done what she had to do and faced what she had to face. If many of her fears and burdens would have seemed unreal to another woman, there was nothing unreal about her courage.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Fear, Done, Faces

  Elizabeth Goudge (1963). “The Scent of Water”

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• Standing up for what's right is a huge burden to bear. It's normal to have some doubt.

  Daisy Whitney

  Doubt, Bears, Normal

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• There can be no burden for distant unreached peoples without a burden for unreached neighbors.

  R. Kent Hughes

  Neighbor

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• I've always wanted to land a 1080, it's been a beast of a burden for me.

  Shaun White

  Land, Beast, Wanted

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• Friends are an indispensable part of a meaningful life. They are the ones who share our burdens and multiply our blessings. A true friend sticks by us in our joys and sorrows. In good times and bad, we need friends who will pray for us, listen to us, and lend a comforting hand and an understanding ear when needed.

  Beverly LaHaye

  Life, Friendship, Meaningful

  Beverly LaHaye (1995). “The Desires of a Woman's Heart”, Tyndale House Publishers

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• I cannot worry much about your sins and miseries when I have so many of my own. I can only love you all, poor fellow travellers, fellow sufferers. I do not want to add one least straw to the burden you already carry.

  Dorothy Day

  Prayer, Love You, Heart

  "House of hospitality".

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• We are all aware that corruption is pervasive. It operates at every level. The poor may carry its greatest burden, but it is an affliction that every Indian is desperate to be rid of.

  Rahul Gandhi

  Affliction, Levels, May

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