Burden Quotes - Page 12

• A man who murders another shortens by a few brief years the life of a human being; but he who votes to increase the burden of debts upon the people of the United States assumes a graver responsibility.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Responsibility, Men, Years

  William Jennings Bryan, Mary Baird Bryan (1900). “The Life and Speeches of Hon. Wm. Jennings Bryan”

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• Knowing something may be a terrible burden to bear, but it holds no danger to them as aren't afraid of truth.

  Orson Scott Card

  Knowing, May, Bears

  Orson Scott Card (2004). “The Crystal City: The Tales of Alvin Maker”, p.87, Macmillan

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• American troops and American taxpayers are shouldering a huge burden with no end in sight because Mr. Bush took us to war on false premises and with no plan to win the peace.

  Al Gore

  War, Winning, Sight

  "How to Debate George Bush" by Al Gore, www.nytimes.com. September 29, 2004.

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• Agency is the power to think, choose, and act for ourselves. It comes with endless opportunities, accompanied by responsibility and consequences. It is a blessing and a burden. Using this gift of agency wisely is critical today because never in the world's history have God's children been so blessed or so blatantly confronted with so many choices.

  Sharon G. Larsen

  Children, Blessed, Responsibility

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• While journalists cannot right every wrong, champion every cause or fix every problem, they can - through the written word - lift someone's burden for a day, make some elderly woman on a bus smile or let them know they are noticed by someone.

  Regina Brett

  Elderly, Champion, Causes

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• The human mind is utterly stupid when it carries, quite willingly, the heavy burden of resentment.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Stupid, Mind, Resentment

  "Seventy Seven Thousand Service-Trees". Poetry series by Sri Chinmoy (#16575, Part 17), 1998.

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• If your judgement is clouded, you must be carrying too many things which are being a burden to you.

  Yoko Ono

  Judgement, Clouded, Ifs

  Twitter post from Oct 25, 2015

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• Words can carry any burden we wish. All that's required is agreement and a tradition upon which to build.

  Frank Herbert

  Agreement, Wish, Tradition

  Frank Herbert (2008). “God Emperor of Dune”, p.134, Penguin

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• There was a jolly miller once, Lived on the River Dee; He worked and sang, from morn to night; No lark so blithe as he. And this the burden of his song, Forever used to be, "I care for nobody, not I, If no one cares for me.

  Isaac Bickerstaffe

  Song, Night, Rivers

  Love in aVillage act 1, sc. 2 (1762)

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• The West has not lived through totalitarianism, with a single ideology for 70 years.We are escaping from the burden of the past, and onlyafter we have done that will we be ready to integrate with Europeand Europe needs Russia.

  Boris Yeltsin

  Past, Russia, Escaping

  1991 Addressing socialist MPs in Strasbourg, 15 Apr.

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• For beauty with sorrow Is a burden hard to be borne: The evening light on the foam, and the swans, there; That music, remote, forlorn.

  Walter de La Mare

  Swans, Evening Light, Sorrow

  Walter De la Mare (1941). “Collected poems”

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• There is no burden of the spirit but is lightened by kneeling under it. Little by little, the bitterest feelings are sweetened by the mention of them in prayer. And agony itself stops swelling, if we can only cry sincerely, "My God, my God!"

  William Mountford

  Prayer, Agony, Feelings

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 466), 1895.

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• There's no way to avoid a burden on your freedom. The costs themselves are a burden on your freedom. The restrictions that are necessary in order to get rid of the terrorists are a burden to your freedom. So there's no way in the short run to avoid a restriction on your freedom.

  Milton Friedman

  Running, Order, Cost

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Money is like a canvas or a shape shifter. It's like whatever you project on that canvas, that's what money is for you. Really, in its essence it's power. Most people relate to money the way they relate to power. They either think other people have it, and they don't and they're mad about it, or they feel fearful of it like having it would be a burden or a responsibility.

  Tony Robbins

  Responsibility, Thinking, Essence

  "Interview with Tony Robbins on His New Book, ‘Money: Master the Game’". Interview With Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 20, 2014.

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• Some of the burdens we carry include false weight, perhaps to make up for all the horrible stuff we actually did and forgot.

  David

  Weight, Stuff, Horrible

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• I can't say I'm thankful about being German because I sometimes experience it as a huge burden. But it is an integral part of me and I wouldn't want to escape it. I have accepted it.

  Bernhard Schlink

  Want, Sometimes, Accepted

  "Bernhard Schlink: being German is a huge burden". Interview with Kate Connolly, www.theguardian.com. September 16, 2012.

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• When God says to us, "Give me your load, trust me, what you cannot do, I will do for you," He puts our faith to one of the strongest tests. He never consents to carry our burdens unless we give them to Him.

  Theodore L. Cuyler

  Giving, Tests, Trust Me

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 598, 1895.

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• At first, being a female role model really terrified me. But it hasn't turned out to be an awful burden. I get a lot of letters from women who tell me that, after watching Xena, they have bought the Harley-Davidson they always wanted or left an abusive relationship.

  Lucy Lawless

  Female Role Models, Roles, Letters

  "Is it a bird?". The Sunday Times, July 27, 1997.

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• Up until I came here this week, and I met so many women and young girls who feel, to use their word - and I'm a bit embarrassed, but it's a good word - empowered, by watching. I realized this isn't a burden, this is an honor.

  Lucy Lawless

  Girl, Honor, Use

  "Lucy Lawless is a Star on the Strength of 'Xena'". The Seattle Times, September 29, 1996.

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• Blessed are they who, in the calm moments of retirement, of worship, of prayer, of silent waiting, have found that to "the weary and heavy laden " Christ can indeed give rest; that compared with the heavy bondage of the world or the exactions of human systems, His yoke indeed is easy, and His burden is light.

  Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

  Retirement, Prayer, Blessed

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 98), 1895.

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• God grant that as our horizon of duty is widened, our minds may widen with it; that as our burden is increased, our shoulders may be strengthened to bear it. God grant to us that spirit of wisdom and understanding, uprightness, and godly fear, without which, even in greatest things there is nothing; with which, even in the smallest things there is every thing.

  Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

  Godly, Understanding, Mind

  Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, Emma Elizabeth Brown (1879). “Thoughts that breathe”

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• An artist who dedicates his life to art, burdens his art with his life, and his life with his art.

  Ad Reinhardt

  Art, Artist

  Ad Reinhardt, Barbara Rose (1991). “Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt”, p.54, Univ of California Press

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• One always treads with a joyful step when one has dropped the burden called the ego.

  Anthony de Mello

  Ego, Steps, Joyful

  "One Minute Nonsense". Book by Anthony de Mello (p. 177), 1992.

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• October's bellowing anger breakes and cleavesThe bronzed battalions of the stricken woodIn whose lament I hear a voice that grievesFor battle's fruitless harvest, and the feudOf outrage men. Their lives are like the leavesScattered in flocks of ruin, tossed and blownAlong the westering furnace flaring red.O martyred youth and manhood overthrown,The burden of your wrongs is on my head.

  Siegfried Sassoon

  Men, Voice, Battle

  Siegfried Sassoon, “Autumn”

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• All loans, in the eyes of honest borrowers, must eventually be repaid. All credit is debt. Proposals for an increased volume of credit, therefore, are merely another name for proposals for an increased burden of debt. They would seem considerably less inviting if they were habitually referred to by the second name instead of by the first.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Eye, Names, Credit

  Henry Hazlitt (2010). “Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics”, p.37, Crown Business

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