Famous Quotes & Sayings

Any time you do any increase whatever you get will help in a positive way and it keeps you from placing a burden on one party. We will eventually look at other methods of doing cost saving measures as well as revenue sources.

Any time you have a sudden, unexpected spike in enrollment, it can be a financial burden for the local districts, and we are working with them to make sure they get their money as fast as possible.

In laymans terms, taxes in Granby will go down this year as the result of true-value and that will shift the burden to the other six municipalities that are in the district,

I know that they are excited about it being open. It just takes a burden off.

Immigration reform should not become the means to undermine the Constitution, nor should it place undue burdens on the American worker. Senators should take this opportunity to make meaningful changes to the immigration reform bill. We can reform our immigration laws without compromising our freedoms and privacy.

Tamba Hali

I keep her in my prayers. I don't try to make it a burden on me, every day worrying about her. I just have faith that she's doing well.

I know who's running and who's thinking of running and it would have been a big burden to raise the money we needed to overcome the lack of name recognition.

I'm sure there are all sorts of solutions out there, but we need time to look at them and see how we can put a fair tax burden on our people and still provide the necessary services.

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.

There's still time to forge a genuine national compact and promote a national identity, but institutional restraints that so far have prevented a break-up are fast eroding. The main burden is on Iraq's leaders, but they need all the help and pressure the US and others can muster.

There should be a lower burden on local property taxpayers.

The trade-offs involved are shifting more of the tax burden onto middle-income folks or cutting programs.

The time is very precious. When they come into first grade or kindergarten for the first time, they learn within a few weeks of the school experience that they're not as capable, and that's a burden that is extremely damaging.

Eric Chavez

I started scoreboard-watching three or four weeks ago; that's when you know things are starting to get interesting. It's not a burden to be playing for the playoffs. This is the time of the year when every game counts, every pitch counts. It's an honor to be able to play for something when other teams are making vacation plans.

Ella Wilcox

What can be said in New Year rhymes,That's not been said a thousand times?The new years come, the old years go,We know we dream, we dream we know.We rise up laughing with the light,We lie down weeping with the night.We hug the world until it stings,We curse it then and sigh for wings.We live, we love, we woo, we wed,We wreathe our prides, we sheet our dead.We laugh, we weep, we hope, we fear,And that's the burden of a year.

We certainly don't want to burden a company with dues.

This is too big a burden for the building, development industry to carry.

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,

Jonathan Coleman

In writing non-fiction about people who are living, you are always walking a fine line, carrying a burden to be fair that, in my opinion, should always be there.

In a district like ours, early dismissal puts a huge burden on parents because they have to pick up their kids. So when we have early dismissal, I make the call the day before.

John Kerr

I just hope and pray that this thing works out. You've got to have a consistent tax system so it wouldn't be a burden on people trying to figure things out of state.

I just don't think our girls, offensively, are playing with a whole lot of confidence, so it puts a burden on all of them and us as coaches to know who to throw it to that might make a shot.

I just don't have a lot of confidence in Senator Mitchell. I think he's burdened by having an interest in the game. This matter is so serious that it requires complete independence.

Trent Dilfer

I put the burden on me. I don't care how low it is, it's my job to get it. I saw the ball. I tried to go down and get it. It hit off my foot. I tried to grab it and Ray took it from me.

Tom Daschle

If you burden any vehicle ultimately that vehicle stops,

If you're a busy person and you don't want to put the burden on yourself to call every three months and you have the money, these services could be a convenience and a comfort,

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.

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.

Kelsey Grammer

I guess Frasier and I have always looked for the same thing in life: being happy and making an honest living, trying to do some good in the world and changing a few minds if we can. Or at least lifting somebody's burden for a time.

David Gilmour

I'm very relieved not to be carrying the burden around, the big snail shell. Because it sometimes does feel like a big weight. The pressure of expectation is just too big. The whole Pink Floyd name, carting it around ... I don't want to be there at the moment.

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