The question is whether personal freedom is worth the terrible effort, the never-lifted burden and risks of self-reliance. — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share Image
“The occupation of Japan was the last immodest exercise in the colonial conceit known as “the white man’s burden.”2” — John W. Dower Copy Share Image
Some politicians fear the burden that migrants will impose on local communities and taxpayers. Others fear extremists masquerading as genuine refugees. — Jose Angel Gurria Copy Share Image
Carry the burden smilingly and cheerfully, because patience is the key to victory. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Now you know how badly someone wanted you, Charley. Children forget that sometimes. They think of themselves as a burden instead of… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
I do not understand how a man can be a true believer, in whom sin is not the greatest burden, sorrow and… — John Owen Copy Share Image
“There's so much shit in this world-what good are friends if not to help shoulder some of the burden?” — Jill Hathaway Copy Share Image
I feel that if I am freed of the burden of politics, then I can do more, and I can take more… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Money is a miraculous thing. It is your personal energy reduced to a portable form and endowed with power you yourself do… — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
The rich are like beasts of burden, carrying treasure all day, and at the night of death unladen; they carry to their… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Living together places a huge burden on the other person to be lover, friend, entertainments manager, chef, domestic help, which is almost… — Deborah Moggach Copy Share Image
The king, which during the opening and middlegame stage is often a burden because it has to be defended, becomes in the… — Jose Raul Capablanca Copy Share Image
There is no sense in agreeing or desiring that the United States take an affirmative position in outer space, unless we are… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“My mother always said that you should share your troubles. If you let them out, then they are less likely to burden… — Kinley MacGregor Copy Share Image
I've been playing old parts forever. I play 93 quite often. When you've done it more than once, you take the hint.… — Maggie Smith Copy Share Image
Can freedom become a burden, too heavy for man to bear, something he tries to escape from?..Is there not also, perhaps, besides… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
She [a mother] never outgrows the burden of love, and to the end she carries the weight of hope for those she… — Florida Scott-Maxwell Copy Share Image
The legal principle placing the burden of proof on accusers rather than the accused can be traced back to Second and Third… — Bob Barr Copy Share Image
I will call not just on Israel, but on the Palestinians, on the Arab States, and the international community to join us… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“His Burden Is Light Then Jesus said, “Come to me, all of you who are weary and carry heavy burdens, and I… — Cheri Fuller Copy Share Image
“The heaviest burden: “What, if some day or night, a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Knowledge is a burden if it robs you of innocence. Knowledge is a burden if it is not integrated into life. Knowledge… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
It would be impossible to calculate the psychic damage concepts of sin has inflicted on generations of children who might have grown… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
My theory is that poems are written because of a state of emotional irritation. It may be present for some time before… — Sara Teasdale Copy Share Image
We all long for someone with whom we are able to share our peculiar burdens of being alive. — Salley Vickers Copy Share Image
Your gift is not a burden," she whispered. "But you must be brave, because it has more power than the sharpest claw... — Erin Hunter Copy Share Image
Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves. — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
How much there is in books that one does not want to know, that it would be a mere weariness and burden… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
“The burden of being human is that we are blessed with phenomenal comprehension, but unfortunately we are not granted the ability to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Someone's attention shouldn't have a physical weight, but it does. Hate's a heavy burden; hope is worse.” — Josin L. McQuein Copy Share Image
He possessed the rare merit of making a property of his time and not a burden. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“How embarrassing. To suddenly understand how much of a burden you are to another person, how much someone else might wish to… — Angela Flournoy Copy Share Image
What a burden to think one is conceived in sin rather than in pleasure; that one is born into evil rather than… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
America in particular imposes an horrendous burden on the world. We have this wonderful standard of living but it comes at enormous… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
What I feel most strongly here being in Congress is kind of the burden - the good burden - of representing all… — Duncan D. Hunter Copy Share Image
The people who carried the burden, who marked in strange field in search of an answer, and ended their journeys an unwilling… — Phil Ochs Copy Share Image
Letting go doesn't mean your weak. It shows that you're strong to go on with that burden waying you down. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Someday, when in the presence of our Savior, we will thank Him for every burden, every trial, and every heartache. — J. Vernon McGee Copy Share Image
In New York, the average total state and local tax burden is $5,260 for every man, woman and child. That's by far… — Tom Golisano Copy Share Image
Some of the burdens we carry include false weight, perhaps to make up for all the horrible stuff we actually did and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image