Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arthur Schopenhauer

The old woman dies, the burden is lifted.

(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.

Gene Sperling

One of the things we have to remember about the poorest countries in the world is that parents, extremely poor parents, are making the choice of whether to send their girls to school. And they are struggling with lack of water, lack of firewood, and lack of care for their youngest children. And those burdens fall on the girls.

Faye Wattleton

Many African-American men are incarcerated. And so African-American women do carry an enormous burden. And traditionally have carried a greater burden than perhaps their white counterparts.

Clay Shirky

The threat [of the U.S. bills SOPA and PIPA] is the inversion of the burden of proof, where we suddenly are all treated like thieves at every moment we're given the freedom to create, to produce or to share.

Alice Hoffman

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

Eric Ripert

What I never want to do is lose my focus on Le Bernardin. That's why I did not want to be burdened with managing the place. I'm not going to be there every day.

What I feel most strongly here being in Congress is kind of the burden - the good burden - of representing all of our military.

I think it eases the fiscal burden on the individual consumer.

David Brown

It can be a large burden for a child to have to undertake a caretaker role that would be expected for someone more in adulthood. You might, in some ways, end up having (the child) sacrifice their opportunity to be a child.

Hatred ever kills, love never dies such is the vast difference between the two. What is obtained by love is retained for all time. What is obtained by hatred proves a burden in reality for it increases hatred.

I think it's important to look at it to help senior citizens who might take interest in it. It would help take the burden off the senior citizens who wanted to use it.

I think the burden is on the plaintiff

James Dolan

We can do this under the economics of our business that makes sense and get a return on our investment. And we don't need to burden the taxpayers of the city of New York or the state of New York with that request, and we're not going to.

Mark King

The people here have really taken a burden off our minds,

He would have been unhappy as captain of the West Indies team because he is a success-oriented person. He would have been feeling the burden of captaincy.

He hasn't been right for probably two months. He's been carrying a burden in a very public way. It's been very, very difficult to be dealing with what he's been dealing with for the last year and dealing with it in this conference.

Pete Carroll

He is handling it as well as you can handle it, but there is a tremendous burden for him and he is just a young pup trying to make it,

He is living under the stress and burden of this thing. It was an accident, and he wishes it hadn't happened.

If that's the case, we will always be a huge financial burden on the city, and we will always be in a situation where there are financial issues because the cost of health care goes up every year.

If the government decides on an increase of more than 30 %, the inflation rate would jump by two to three percent and this would burden the people.

John Knowles

If we could get some grant money, it would ease the burden on the taxpayers of Philipsburg,

Paul Cook

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.

Dick Cheney

I think we need to significantly reduce the regulatory burden on the private sector. The Obama administration is doing the opposite. They're loading on more and more regulation on the private respect to how the economy functions.

Hugh Laurie

I don't think of myself as funny. I think of myself as rather grave, actually. And I'm suspicious of fun. I never quite know what that is or how to deal with it or how to generate it. That's my fault. I know it's a burden on the people I'm with. It's tiresome.

Donny Osmond

With success came an ever-growing burden of responsibility. I lived with a near-constant low-level anxiety that I would make a mistake that would not only threaten my career, but also my brothers' - not to mention the livelihoods of many people who work with us or for us.

There are several hundred municipal mandates in Connecticut. Many of these are partially funded or unfunded and are problematic and unfair because they create financial burdens that cost taxpayers money. Cities and towns have only two ways to pay for these mandates: increase taxes and fees or cut programs and services.

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.

John Boyle O'Reilly

No writer for the press, however humble, is free from the burden of keeping his purpose high and his integrity white.

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

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.

Peter Lerangis

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