Burden Quotations | Page 4

Civilization is not a burden. It is an opportunity.

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

Well, the taxes that everyone else is paying are supporting lots of programs that were in place prior to Obama's new spending. So new spending has too be paid for by new taxes, or by eliminating existing tax breaks. And Obama wants that burden to be borne exclusively by the rich.

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.

To be relieved of love, she thought, was to give up a terrible burden.

View your burden as a gift. It's the theme that has been given you to work with. Accept that and lean into it.

Once you know some things, you can't unknow them. It's a burden that can never be given away.

Bureaucracies temporarily suspend the Second Law of Thermodynamics. In a bureaucracy, it's easier to make a process more complex than to make it simpler, and easier to create a new burden than kill an old one.

God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours.

It's also important to develop a burden for the lost.

Beneath the hush a whisper from long ago, promising peace of mind and a burden shared. No peace which is not peace for all, no rest until all has been fulfilled.

I have only my own burden to bear.

(Wall Street Journal writer Troy McMullen) sort of lumped it together with Montana and Wyoming like wastelands, frozen wastelands, and made it sound like it's such a horrible burden to own such a property.

We're still watching to see what the ruling means. It will lift some of the burden off Microsoft, but it doesn't end things.

We're trying to provide small business with an opportunity to obtain better health insurance at more competitive rates without the burden of some of the regulatory mandates.

When large numbers of poor families started showing up in the central valley of California, and also in Los Angeles, at a time when the federal government was providing very little assistance, then the burden of caring for those new residents fell to those towns and cities, and sympathy dried up pretty quickly.

With 20 years of experience under our belt, we recognize that we can reduce the burden without losing much of the data we now receive. These are very small facilities that account for a very small percentage of the releases.

We virtually can lose a school district, which will have a financial impact on a lot of neighboring school districts, which will be a burden on the state,

We don't like to burden taxpayers, ... I knew that we had to float a bond and that would be an issue.

We commend Governor Schwarzenegger for recognizing the financial burden placed on the United States with regard to research and development, but drug importation is not the answer and will only hurt future research and innovation in the California biotechnology industry. We strongly encourage the governor to re-think his stance toward drug importation and to realize the economic damage it will cause our state, which now leads the world's life science industry.

We don't want to burden individuals with unfair taxes.

We don't want to add additional burden to the taxpayers,

We put the burden of proof on them.

We put the burden of coming into Middletown on the developers, not the people who are here now.

When my delegate Jeff Frederick, talks about holding the line on taxes, what he's really talking about is putting the burden for his failure to do his job on the backs of Prince William County taxpayers.

We will do everything possible to lighten their burden during this terrible time,

We will continue to work for deficit reduction that will not burden farmers, particularly after the high fuel costs and extreme weather of the 2005 crop year, and without harming the mutually-beneficial relationship between farmers and food stamp families.

Why put the burden on baseball to try and figure out where to go, and maybe put an asterisk? Just wipe the whole thing out.

Why place that burden on me to get back what's rightfully mine to begin with?

Why isn't it natural for people who have lived and worked at something to want to use the knowledge and capacity in a new way, free from the burden of making a living?

Why does a human body become deceased? The reason is that as long as the human body is not free from suffering, mind cannot be happy. If a man lacks enthusiasm, either his body or mind is in a deceased condition.... Now what saps the enthusiasm in man? If there is no enthusiasm, life becomes drudgery - a mere burden to be dragged. Nothing can be achieved if there is no enthusiasm. The main reason for this lack of enthusiasm on the part of a man is that an individual looses the hope of getting an opportunity to elevate himself. Hopelessness leads to lack of enthusiasm. The mind in such cases becomes deceased.... When is enthusiasm created? When one breaths an atmosphere where one is sure of getting the legitimate reward for one's labor, only then one feels enriched by enthusiasm and inspiration.

To be successful, we must be able to cope with this burden and play the season one game at a time. We cannot be a bunch of award-winning individuals, but must be an unselfish team who can visualize the concept: 'It is amazing what can be accomplished when no one cares who receives the credit.' With that being our attitude, the sky is the limit for these young ladies.

To me, the burden of proof isn't on people looking for ways to improve our schools; it's on people who want to keep things the same. Our current system isn't working, and too many kids are being left behind.

This young lady has taken the burden of last season and has made it her personal mission to change the attitude of the entire team.

To sacrifice of ourselves to serve and to share with others His word, I just felt such a strong burden on my heart to go.

We had a burden to meet and that burden was proven: That she committed the offenses beyond a reasonable doubt, ... I did what the law required me to do. I presented all the evidence.

We believe it will place a burden on local animal control programs.

Truly the burden of the world rests on your shoulders,

The problem is that the plants all derive from the cannabis genus. It would allow marijuana and hemp to be grown side by side. It would impose an unreasonable burden on local law enforcement.

There are school budgets that are being voted down around New Jersey even though they're efficient budgets, they're good budgets, because people can't see straight regarding property taxes. It has become such a burden that the way education funding has played its way out in the state as a result of the various Abbott decisions that we've got a real crisis on our hands.

You have more business leaders willing to enter into that conversation, mostly for self-serving reasons, quite frankly. This is a huge burden on their bottom line. It has become pretty clear that this system is not sustainable, and business leaders are finally coming to this conclusion.

When you have two highly placed cooperators, it eases the prosecution's burden substantially. At the same time, when you're faced with officers who are trying a hear-no-evil, see-no-evil defense, your corroborator is bolstered because the hear-no-evil see-no-evil defense just doesn't strike jurors as common sense.

When you have got a name like that, it's a massive burden to carry around with you, but I am told he is a good player, so we'll have to wait and see.

We love singing harmony, ... And no one has to carry the burden of the weight, which is wonderful. ... There's no pressure. It really came together kind of naturally. We all loved the same songs.

Without Free Choice Vouchers, there is little in the health reform law that discourages employers from increasingly passing the burden of health care costs onto their employees.

We must be prepared for a worsening drought. Children are especially vulnerable to malnutrition and disease and the burden on already over-stretched health, nutrition and water services will be even greater.

We welcome the European Union's intention to assume the lion's share of the financial burden and, given the U.S. role in the military campaign, this is an appropriate division of labor,

The president is saying through his plan that by saving instead of squandering the surpluses brought on by our discipline and prosperity, we can address much of our long-term retirement challenge in a way that lifts that burden off our children and grandchildren.

But really just to take the burden from us. In the end, she still worried about others, and kept assuring us that she was fine, at peace, and not to worry about her, and told us to call her after funeral party a gala and have fun at it.

The governor realizes the tremendous burden property taxes have placed on families across the state. We are preparing the budget with that in mind.

The government will argue that staying the conduct remedies pending appeal will have further anti-competitive effects. The burden then would be on Microsoft to show that those remedies would have such a dramatic effect on their business that it would be inequitable to have them go into effect before the appeal. The outcome of the two arguments depends on art as well as science.

The government has to spend more on education, healthcare and pensions to take the burden off individuals and give them more confidence to spend.

We need to get the word out that we want people to watch this on TV. We need to reduce the burden on the public service folks out on the road.

The government has confirmed that (the power industry) will be expected to bear the entire burden of reductions in phase two of the scheme.

While there may be short term costs to us individually or collectively, the burden of being secretive and lacking transparency would be catastrophic,

We've had a lot of police overtime expenditures. Officers are working double shifts. The fatigue factor builds up. We've been doing this since Monday morning. It creates a burden on our regular operations.

There is nothing contentious about obtaining court approval for a trip outside of North America. Court approval for international travel is normal and is not bothersome or any burden to Mr. Black or his counsel.

This was a very heavy burden to carry around for all these years. She's unloading it, getting rid of it. She's saying, 'This is who I am, this is how it affected me.' She's trying to move beyond it.

What can be said in New Year rhymes,That's not been said a thousand times?The new years come, the old years go,We know we dream, we dream we know.We rise up laughing with the light,We lie down weeping with the night.We hug the world until it stings,We curse it then and sigh for wings.We live, we love, we woo, we wed,We wreathe our prides, we sheet our dead.We laugh, we weep, we hope, we fear,And that's the burden of a year.

We will undoubtedly see some of the tax burden shift to residential.

We will support the package of laws which ease the tax burden and develop our industry ... but financial and economic measures alone will not save the country.

We don't want students to be a burden on families. When (our family) hosted a student, we didn't feel an impact on our family budget.

We certainly don't want to burden a company with dues.

...we think it's about giving consumers choice, we think it's about not necessarily asking them to pay over the odds for a technology that, at the moment, is unproven. It's an interesting bet to play -- we're watching what goes on, but I think we're offering a broader, more flexible choice that doesn't burden the consumer with a cost element that may be wasted.

User fees are costly and require a large bureaucracy to administer and are an administrative burden to companies. It's of no value.

We think Santonio Holmes is a great player, ... Early last year, he was about the only guy that was making plays for us. The people we played against saw that and put more attention on him. Some of our young guys then got a little more involved and that eased the burden off Santonio a little bit. If we can get to the point where we can recognize that he is being singled, we need to go to Santonio Holmes, because from a receiver standpoint he's top-notch.

We are appealing to donors to share with us the burden of transition,

We had reached the end of the road, ... Our feelings for one another were unchanged but they had incurred for us a burden so great that we decided, together, to lay it down.

We want as much federal funding as possible in order to lessen the burden on the state.

Brett is going to have a huge burden to try and lift the rest of the team. I think that burden is too much. I think for the first time in the last six or seven years, I think the burden actually will pull him backwards, maybe into the abyss.

Bring it on, ... With the talent that we have, I definitely see that burden being lifted.

As the campaign gets under way and voters take a closer look at the candidates, property taxes will be at the forefront, ... have to convince the voters that they are serious about lowering the property tax burden and that they can do it without significantly raising other taxes.

As the three governors before him have done, he will rely on the Protocol Foundation to help alleviate any burden that would have been placed on government, so we can market California opportunities abroad while at the same time minimizing the impact on taxpayers,

As I said to Davin or any of our players, no one play (decided the outcome). I can think of 100 in any ball game.... No one should have to carry the burden for that. Not Davin. Not anyone else.

Don't expect a new government to arrive and somebody to flip a switch to make everything look just fine again. We're at a painful threshold that we need to cross in order to see an improvement later. In the short run, the measures will burden private households.

CVD is the biggest single health problem facing Europe both in terms of resource burden and economic burden.

And this the burden of his song / For ever used to be, / I care for nobody, not I, / If no one cares for me.

Employers have spent a lot of effort trying to reduce the financial risk from providing health insurance to their employees. But the greater risk is what employees' health problems can cost them in the form of lost productivity at work or the total burden of illness. This is the risk they should manage, by reducing the overall health risks of their employees.

England's national debt would not be so great an evil as it now appears to us, if England's aristocracy would concede that this burden should be borne by the class who were benefited by the cost of wars, namely, by the rich.

especially with the high cost of energy already an enormous burden for our farmers and ranchers.

Europeans' cries are falling on deaf ears. Their wish that the euro not bear the burden of readjustment will not make it into the G7 statement.

Europeans' cries are falling on deaf ears, ... Their wish that the euro not bear the burden of readjustment will not make it into the G7 statement.

FEMA will not have this preparedness burden on it anymore,

There's only one way -- through good science. We know the burden is upon us to do this right.

There's still time to forge a genuine national compact and promote a national identity, but institutional restraints that so far have prevented a break-up are fast eroding. The main burden is on Iraq's leaders, but they need all the help and pressure the US and others can muster.

There's a fork in the road, you can be jealous, or you can be happy. I always choose happiness. Jealousy is one of the seven deadly sins, ... If I've got two loaves of bread under each arm, why must I feel jealous of anybody? Why can't I just be happy for myself? If that's the way you look at it, then why isn't Randy jealous of David Letterman or Jay Leno? Because there's always somebody better than you. The thing is, I would rather just be thankful and live each day as if it was a gift instead of a burden. It is a burden if you're so competitive or so ego-driven that you can't live unless you make everything else dead around you.

There should be a lower burden on local property taxpayers.

There's no accountability for the MTA right now, and there's a huge burden on the workers. Everyone shares the blame, but the MTA in my opinion bears most of the onus if there's a shutdown.

The trade-offs involved are shifting more of the tax burden onto middle-income folks or cutting programs.

The total amount of debt that foreigners have bought this year is $66 billion, which is about the amount of the total federal deficit during the same period of time. So in other words, we benefit by basically eliminating the burden of the debt on domestic capital markets.

The time is very precious. When they come into first grade or kindergarten for the first time, they learn within a few weeks of the school experience that they're not as capable, and that's a burden that is extremely damaging.

The time has come for concerted action to share the burden of adjustment and maximize the benefits that such action can produce,

I started scoreboard-watching three or four weeks ago; that's when you know things are starting to get interesting. It's not a burden to be playing for the playoffs. This is the time of the year when every game counts, every pitch counts. It's an honor to be able to play for something when other teams are making vacation plans.

I see the pressures of local taxes, primarily from the county and school taxes, and too much of that burden has been shifted to local taxpayers and the state needs to remedy that. Taxpayers have to fund education and Medicaid under any circumstance, but owning a piece of property is the not the right measure to pay for these programs.

It would make people more comfortable if I made a film that said all targeted assassination is bad, or good, but the movie doesn't take either of those positions. It refuses to. Many of those pundits on the Left and Right would love the film to land somewhere definite. It puts a real burden on the audience to figure out for themselves how they feel about these issues. There are no easy answers to the most complex story of the last 50 years.

It would just be another burden on businesses.

These are the kinds of companies that want all the benefits of American citizenship and all the benefits from doing business with the federal government, but they don't want to bare the burden of the responsibilities of paying taxes to our government,

The Saints are bearing the entire financial burden of playing here at Tiger Stadium. Everything. We don't expect to lose anything at all. We're ensured against any loss whatsoever and against wear and tear on the stadium and the field.

I've never looked at it as a burden and I don't think I ever will. It's exciting. It means that people are interested in hockey and that's important. That's the best part about it.

It would be a financial burden on the schools.