The scales of reckoning with mortality are never evenly weighted, alas, and thus it is on the shoulders of the living that… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
I am also, I must confess, a little sceptical of the theory that we have a right, if we could, to pass… — John James Cowperthwaite Copy Share Image
He [Brian Fraser] told me that a man must be responsible for any see he sows, for it's his duty to take… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
The emphasis has been on rights, not responsibilities. When it comes to piecing together the fragments of broken lives, we have tended… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
“If you follow the pescribed way of how people want you to be, then it will be of great relieve if you… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“The aim is not therefore to liberate some 'essential self' by throwing off the burden of government and the State, but to… — Peter Marshall Copy Share Image
Words strain, Crack and sometimes break, under the burden, Under the tension, slip, slide, perish, Decay with imprecision, will not stay in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Contemporarily, we struggle with people worried about representation sometimes. It's a burden, as artists, that we take on that limits the work.… — Dee Rees Copy Share Image
Experience has taught me that if we, like President Monson, exercise our faith and look to God for help, we will not… — Carl B. Cook Copy Share Image
I know no study which is so unutterably saddening as that of the evolution of humanity, as it is set forth in… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Nietzsche ... argues that all that passes in the life of a society is ephemeral and banausic except for the presence of… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
It is through solving problems correctly that we grow spiritually. We are never given a burden unless we have the capacity to… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
[Our troops in Iraq and Afganistan] does give us the ability to make sure that we are strengthening those folk who are… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The miracle is that some have stepped out of the rags of the Republic's definition to assume the great burden and glory… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
What was I supposed to be, growing in your womb -- assuming it was even in our womb that I was conceived?… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
All my stepchildren carried the burden of my fame. Sometimes they would read terrible things about me, and I'd worry about whether… — Marilyn Monroe Copy Share Image
Nobody supports me at the expense of his own adventure. Then I get bitter: I am not loved enough to be supported.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too… — John Newton Copy Share Image
I hate all pain, Given or received; we have enough within us The meanest vassal as the loftiest monarch, Not to add… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
I would like Taeyeon unnie to be the leader, but like Hyoyeon unnie said, I think shes carrying a lot of burdens… — Seohyun Copy Share Image
Unlike the American inventions and achievements that have expanded horizons of possibility, our nation's tax code has become an excessive burden that… — Kevin Brady Copy Share Image
I think it's a great handicap to be discovered at an early age. I didn't have that burden of early success. I… — Philip Glass Copy Share Image
The burden of proof is now on the Palestinians... They must fight terrorism and dismantle its infrastructures in order to make possible… — Kjell Magne Bondevik Copy Share Image
“I didn’t know if the forgiveness itself was light, glittery stuff that showered down and absolved a person and set them free,… — Jane Hamilton Copy Share Image
I'm the guy that's always defusing everything and taking the burden off a lot of people and letting everything fall onto me.… — Mike Conley Jr Copy Share Image
Unless you reduce the long-term spending burden, you cannot cut taxes in any lasting way, but can only shift the burden of… — Peter George Peterson Copy Share Image
So it's the unwinding of your nervous system. The corresponding experience to what winds you up comes out in your dreams. To… — George Harrison Copy Share Image
The baby boomer surge is forcing society to face decisions about costs - and particularly what is valuable. It's senseless for clinicians… — Dave deBronkart Copy Share Image
Stay away from lazy parasites, who perch on you just to satisfy their needs, they do not come to alleviate your burdens,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One can feel the urge, the need to give, coming from within him. He is such a pure and true person. It’s… — Marcel Marceau Copy Share Image
I developed depression. But I never let people know how down I was feeling. That would have been another burden for my… — Ncuti Gatwa Copy Share Image
I keep my eyes on the sea, waiting to be rocketed into it on a wave of fire. I'll be ready for… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
Fortunately, historians are now beginning to recognise the historic role of Islam as a liberating force for peoples oppressed by the burdens… — Aly Khan Copy Share Image
Prayer is the soul's sincere desire, Uttered or unexpressed, The motion of a hidden fire That trembles in the breast. Prayer is… — James Montgomery Copy Share Image
The best system of education is that which draws its chief support from the voluntary effort of the community, from the individual… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
In the 1930s, Adolf Hitler believed that his great-power rivals would be easy to exploit and isolate because each had little interest… — John Mearsheimer Copy Share Image
If we could figure out ways for kids to exit college without having the burden of debt, what we have really figured… — Killer Mike Copy Share Image
I think we have a number of young people - like yourself - who want to make a difference. I'm not sure… — Birch Bayh Copy Share Image
...you have to learn where your pain is. You have to burrow down and find the wound, and if the burden of… — Jane Hamilton Copy Share Image