Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lauren Jackson

I feel light as a feather, ... I'm really happy that we won. I feel like everyone has written us off all year, and I just knew we could make the playoffs. God, it just feels so good. It feels like a huge burden off our shoulders.

I don't want to put that burden on the staff, to go with someone from the outside would be better.

John W. Snow

I don't think they will derail the economy but they are a burden on the economy,

He's not going to stand by and let this problem become an even heavier burden on the city-county health clinics in Montana.

Billy Graham

How often we commit our burdens to the Lord and then fail to trust Him by taking matters into our own hands. Then, when we have messed things up, we pray, "Oh, Lord, help me, I'm in trouble." The choice is yours. Do you want to trust your life in God's "pocket" or keep it in your own?

Nan Aron

By failing to allay the concerns his record raised prior to the hearings, Judge Roberts simply has not met the heavy burden of proving that he warrants a lifetime appointment to the most powerful judgeship in the country.

By changing ownership of the manufacturer, not just the branding, much of the regulatory burden and investor scrutiny financial advisors had faced may be eliminated.

Bill Nelson

By my order today, I'm putting the burden on Prudential to show why I should not impose the stiffest of fines or revoke or suspend its license to do business in Florida,

Carl Hiaasen

I always try to burden even the villains with some weird predilection they have to cope with. It helps make them memorable, and gives them a human side.

Childs has not won. It's still his burden to prove race discrimination.

Canada's progressive tax system imposes an ever increasing burden on people as they earn more income. Clearly our tax system is sending the wrong message when it penalizes people for being successful.

But helping a number of people contribute to their communities without the burden of missed class time is worth the trade-off.

In a sense, the burden of proof has shifted from the people who are saying there's a risk, to the skeptics now.

Tom Daschle

If you burden any vehicle ultimately that vehicle stops,

Dusty Baker

I have three years, ... I don't have anything to do with the other 100 or something years. That's how I look at it. It's not a burden to me. I have three years and I'm hoping to turn it around in year No. 4.

I haven't talked about it in ... forever, but I know that holding something like that inside has been a burden for so long,

Harry Anderson

I don't know if I want to carry this burden - its still a mystery to me - but I know what I don't want to do, which is just to sit around ... I came here to find out whether ... we are going to control our own fate.

I didn't think Yao was particularly as good tonight as he has been. There's obviously a huge burden on his shoulders right now, but we're capable of making (shots) and we didn't tonight.

Craig Bellamy

It was a really tough 12 months for Greg. He had to cope with a lot and while we tried to lighten the burden as much as we could, the way he handled it all, it was a real credit to him. He is incredibly mature for his age.

It's very valuable to the State Department to have what are called second track contacts with North Korea because they are more frank, and they're not burdened by the official process.

E. B. White

I want the burden to be on my shoulders. I relish it. I don't mind putting the team on my back.

It's hard to fathom what it's like to lose five children, two nieces and a father in one shot. It seems like a burden too big to bear.

Stephen Ames

It's been a big burden trying to play golf. Other things play on your mind. I'm happy to be in this position again. It's been a long battle.

It's always a concern. Declining population can also equate to a declining tax base. It puts a burden on the people who live here.

It's always more difficult to take on a case in which a contract might contradict or not substantiate verbal promises. However, it's not a burden that's never been met before.

Noam Chomsky

That is what I have always understood to be the essence of anarchism: the conviction that the burden of proof has to be placed on authority, and that it should be dismantled if that burden cannot be met.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

Not few nor light are the burdens of life; then load it not with heaviness of spirit.

Mitch Daniels

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.

J. Paul Getty

I find all this money a considerable burden.

Mitch Albom

Bad news has no limits. We often feel it should, like a rainstorm that can't possibly get any heavier. But a storm can always worsen, & the burdens of life can too.

The dreadful burden of having nothing to do.

Mason Cooley

Many who take up burdens come to resent being put upon.

Ted Nugent

If you want less of something, tax it. If you want more of something, don't tax it or reduce the tax burden.