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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.
Author:
Shigeru Yoshida
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One of the advantages of appearing in such a play is that you begin to understand it properly, I feel Ophelia's tragedy was that she had been so used by everybody and felt that she bore a great burden of guilt.
Author:
Lalla Ward
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What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.
Author:
Voltaire
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The prosecutor, who is supposed to carry the burden of proof, really is an author.
Author:
Scott Turow
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Placing on writers the responsibility to represent a culture is an onerous burden.
Author:
Amy Tan
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The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.
Author:
Rabindranath Tagore
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Lay the burden at the feet of the Savior.
Author:
Richard Scott
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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.
Author:
John Salazar
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In the pregnancy process I have come to realize how much of the burden is on the female partner. She's got a construction zone going on in her belly.
Author:
Al Roker
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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.
Author:
Ellen Richards
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I think to be driven to want to kill must be such a terrible burden.
Author:
Ruth Rendell
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No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.
Author:
Max Planck
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There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
Author:
Petrarch
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Remember, the burden of sorrow is doubled when it is borne alone.
Author:
Goran Persson
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The burden which is well borne becomes light.
Author:
Ovid
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I think there have been some periods when the writing almost became a bit of a burden.
Author:
Leo Ornstein
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We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday's burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it.
Author:
John Newton
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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.
Author:
Charles Munch
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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.
Author:
Estelle Morris
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Until you have lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.
Author:
Margaret Mitchell
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Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, the emptiness of ages in his face, and on his back the burden of the world.
Author:
Edwin Markham
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Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations.
Author:
James Madison
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Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way.
Author:
Anne Lindbergh
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Now that copyrights can be just about a century long, the inability to know what is protected and what is not protected becomes a huge and obvious burden on the creative process.
Author:
Lawrence Lessig
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Every burden is a blessing.
Author:
Walt Kelly
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There is no way to ease the burden. The voyage leads on from harm to harm, A land of others and of silence.
Author:
Donald Justice
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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.
Author:
Bruce Jackson
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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.
Author:
Steve Israel
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None knows the weight of another's burden.
Author:
George Herbert
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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.
Author:
Dag Hammarskjold
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Every document, apparently ancient, coming from the proper repository or custody, and bearing on its face no evident marks of forger, the law presumes to be genuine, and devolves on the opposing party the burden of proving it to be otherwise.
Author:
Simon Greenleaf
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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.
Author:
Simon Greenleaf
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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.
Author:
Brian Green
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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.
Author:
Paul Gillmor
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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.
Author:
Byron Dorgan
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No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.
Author:
Charles Dickens
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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.
Author:
Bill Delahunt
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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.'
Author:
Mitch Daniels
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The yoke you wear determines the burden you bear.
Author:
Edwin Cole
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The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.
Author:
Jean Bruyere
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The burden of disease falls on the poor.
Author:
Gro Brundtland
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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.
Author:
Chester Brown
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The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out his best energy, that he may be able to bear the burden.
Author:
Phillips Brooks
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Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.
Author:
Christian Bovee
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Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.
Author:
Corrie Boom
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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.
Author:
Omar Bongo
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Respect the burden.
Author:
Napoleon Bonaparte
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The dreadful burden of having nothing to do.
Author:
Nicolas Boileau
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Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.
Author:
Hosea Ballou
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Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.
Author:
Isaac Asimov
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Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.
Author:
Maya Angelou
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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.
Author:
Theodor Adorno
