What sets black people apart is not some deficit in personal responsibility. It's the weight on our shoulders. That is what's actually… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
When you're under pressure and you're getting hammered by the media, it is a burden. It's the opinions that get you, and… — David James Copy Share Image
One of the advantages of appearing in such a play is that you begin to understand it properly, I feel Ophelia's tragedy… — Lalla Ward Copy Share Image
In a virtuous government, and more especially in times like these, public offices are what they should be - burdens to those… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The great news is that overwhelmingly far more than adults, youth already care about the environment. Young people are recognizing that we… — Philippe Cousteau, Jr Copy Share Image
To continue to condemn only brings condemnation, then, for self. This does not mean that self's activity should be passive, but rather… — Edgar Cayce Copy Share Image
Yes, as an oppressed people, American Indians have this epic burden, but first and foremost, they're human: sometimes a mess, sometimes funny… — Alexandra Fuller Copy Share Image
Sometimes a King has to do terrible things in order to protect those he has sworn to look after. When the stakes… — Cressida Cowell Copy Share Image
In an active life is sown the seed of wisdom; but he who reflects not, never reaps; has no harvest from it,… — Edward Young Copy Share Image
My main contribution was to demolish the myths that India couldn't economically afford nuclear weapons. Of course I made these political arguments… — Subramanian Swamy Copy Share Image
So just look into your acts, into your thoughts, into your feelings: you will find the armor everywhere. Wherever you see fear,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The absence of marriages will result in all kinds of financial burdens that gay people wouldn't face if they could get married.… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
And so I am this pilgrim - if I can somehow answer your question - who's constantly amazed by this journey. Who… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“Maybe what River had meant was that time itself was like a river, moving steadily forward, and you got to be in… — Cate Tiernan Copy Share Image
I cannot worry much about your sins and miseries when I have so many of my own. I can only love you… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
If we have chosen the position in life in which we can most of all work for mankind, no burdens can bow… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
If Christianity is dull and boring, if it is a burden and not a blessing, then most likely we are involved in… — Joseph Stowell Copy Share Image
The unbosoming oneself to another is a kind of release to the soul, which strives to lighten its burden and find ease… — Francois Alexandre Frederic, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt Copy Share Image
As a part of the ISO-NE grid, New Hampshire energy policy is connected to the decisions of our regional neighbors. It is… — Chris Sununu Copy Share Image
While vast continents are shrouded in darkness... the burden of proof lies upon you to show that the circumstances in which God… — Ion Keith-Falconer Copy Share Image
It will be sufficient to point to the enormous burdens which armaments place on the economic, social, and intellectual resources of a… — Ludwig Quidde Copy Share Image
To reduce the burden on the state exchequer, we increased the price of rice. I find nothing wrong in doing so in… — N. Chandrababu Naidu Copy Share Image
“The moral I draw is that the writer should seek his reward in the pleasure of his work and in release from… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
He had a carrying, congressional sort of voice, the kind that sounded good saying things like Less of a tax burden on… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
As they work hard for our children, America's teachers often reach into their own pockets to make sure they have the best… — John Warner Copy Share Image
All speech should be presumed to be protected by the Constitution, and a heavy burden should be placed on those who would… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
Fear, conformity, immorality: these are heavy burdens. They drain us of creative energy. And when we are drained of creative energy, we… — David McCallum Copy Share Image
The world is a resource for us and we have access to the world because of the kind of bodies and skills… — Alva Noe Copy Share Image
“It must be a burden, not even being able to say you were just obeying orders.” “Well, that is always a lie,… — Iain M. Banks Copy Share Image
“Every choice we make affects the other. It always has… We share our choices and our burdens. But that way neither of… — Olivia Fuller Copy Share Image
Science has gone a long way toward helping man to free himself from the burden of hard labor; yet, science itself is… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“Conversely, the absolute absence of a burden causes man to be lighter than air, to soar into heights, take leave of earth… — milan kundera Copy Share Image
Modern man is weighed down more by the burden of responsibility than by the burden of sin. We think him more a… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
We want to live at any price; so we cannot burden ourselves with feelings which, though they might be ornamental enough in… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
He who learns, and makes no use of his learning, is a beast of burden with a load of books. Does the… — Saadi Copy Share Image
God knows that any man who would seek the presidency of the United States is a fool for his pains. The burden… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Knowing that girls are inspired to not have the burden of self-hate, even if it's a tiny way, makes me happy to… — Barbie Ferreira Copy Share Image
The tree is happy because it is scarcely sentient; the hard rock is happier still, it feels nothing: there is no pain… — Ruben Dario Copy Share Image
“You're very young...you haven't got to that yet. But it does come! The blessed relief when you know that you've done with… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
I bear my burden proudly for all to see, to conquer prejudice and ignorance and hate with knowledge and sincerity and love.… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image