Famous Quotes & Sayings

Billy Graham

Heaven gives us hope and makes our present burdens easier to bear.

Ellen Key

Every young person has to bear the burden - heavier in proportion as the individuality is richer - of accommodating himself to existence now that it is no longer seen with the eyes of a child, the eyes to which everything is as it should be.

The overall funding is still less than half of what is needed to comply with (NCLB), leaving the burden on states and local taxpayers.

Daniel Kahneman

Yes, there is a burden of financial insecurity. I don't think you find it in mood. Income is correlated with life satisfaction, so maybe you do find it in life satisfaction. You don't find it in mood, and I think it is very important.

Wole Soyinka

The scales of reckoning with mortality are never evenly weighted, alas, and thus it is on the shoulders of the living that the burden of justice must continue to rest.

Robert Green Ingersoll

George Eliot tenderly carried in her heart the burdens of our race. She looked through pity's tears upon the faults and frailties of mankind.

Justin Trudeau

Living your life in the public eye is a greater burden than most people can imagine.

One of the reasons, surely, why women have been credited with less perfect veracity than men is that the burden of conventional falsehood falls chiefly on them.

Marian Keyes

I've kind of realised life is meant to be tough and everybody is in psychic and spiritual discomfort of some sort and has a burden to carry. I've realised I'm not special.

Abby Wambach

It's a heavy burden to look up at the mountain and want to start the climb.

President Obama's policies have been categorical failures for our country. Unemployment is over nine percent, our deficits are growing, and small businesses are being burdened with regulations.

The ratings on Taiwan could be lowered if further fiscal slippages cause the debt burden to rise markedly.

Traditionally, trucking has not focused on developing and maintaining good human resources practices. Companies like Unique Personnel are able to remove much of that burden from our clients but there is a definite need for more of this type of expertise in the industry and we are happy to help develop it.

Alain Badiou

The declaration of love marks the transition from chance to destiny, and that's why it is so perilous and so burdened with a kind of horrifying stage fright.

(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.

Ron Wyden

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.

Ann Veneman

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.

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.

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.

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.

Graeme Souness

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.

Dolly Parton

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.

Michael Bennet

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.

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 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,

Lynn Swann

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

Patrick Jones

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.

Leona Helmsley

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

Saxby Chambliss

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.