We can applaud the state lottery as a public subsidy of intelligence, for it yields public income that is calculated to lighten… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
To eat with a fuller consciousness of all that is at stake might sound like a burden, but in practice few things… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
They are all beasts of burden in a sense, ' Thoreau once remarked of animals, 'made to carry some portion of our… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
As pressure grows to ease the financial burden on social security, pressure will also grow to eliminate the elderly and infirm to… — Cal Thomas Copy Share Image
You must assume 100% responsibility for your financial life. If you're going to improve your situation, you have to put the full… — Steve Pavlina Copy Share Image
What I will remember most about Mr Mandela is that he was a man whose heart, soul and spirit could not be… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
From Britain's point of view the 1939 war had been a liberal war which had been entered into in a condition of… — Maurice Cowling Copy Share Image
There is incredible value in being of service to others. I think if many of the people in therapy offices were dragged… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
To me, when someone wrongs you, you both share the burden of that wrongdoing - the pain of it weighs on both… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“What has to happen to us before we understand that we have to take good care of everything we have, of every… — Sergei Lukyanenko Copy Share Image
Forgiveness is a selective remembering. It is a conscious choice to focus on someone's innocence instead of his or her mistakes...This serves… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
If the bringing of children into the world is today an economic burden, it is because the social system is inadequate; and… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
From our sorrow we might seek out the sweetness and the good that is often associated with and peculiar to our challenge.… — Richard C. Edgley Copy Share Image
Agency is the power to think, choose, and act for ourselves. It comes with endless opportunities, accompanied by responsibility and consequences. It… — Sharon G. Larsen Copy Share Image
The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution; who resists to sorest temptation from within and without;… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Most of those coming from the mainland are very destitute, almost naked. I am trying to find places for those able to… — Harriet Tubman Copy Share Image
Action isn't a burden to be hoisted up and lugged around on our shoulders. It is something we are. The work we… — Joanna Macy Copy Share Image
What does drunkenness not accomplish? It unlocks secrets, confirms our hopes, urges the indolent into battle, lifts the burden from anxious minds,… — Horace Copy Share Image
Life is too short to carry the burden of a heavy heart. It does not serve you or anyone else. Free yourself… — David Simon Copy Share Image
When I got the money, the whole burden descended on me, and the realization of what I had done. And it led… — Aldrich Ames Copy Share Image
Prayer is, paradoxically, both a gift and a conquest, a grace and a duty. Does that not mean, is it not a… — Peter Forsyth Copy Share Image
“But the burden of appearing to be fine, so as to keep others from worrying about her, was almost worse than simply… — Gwen Cooper Copy Share Image
It's hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy and relatively normal, but when you add… — Patricia Heaton Copy Share Image
I disagree with it, but people come to Everest carrying a huge financial burden. Not only that, but they have spent more… — Nirmal Purja Copy Share Image
Growing and aging populations are putting increased pressure on health-care systems that are already buckling under the burden of chronic diseases like… — Frans van Houten Copy Share Image
You have an administration which understands America's international responsibilities and interests, but you have a population which is anxious, tired, and doesn't… — Lee Hsien Loong Copy Share Image
Forgiveness. It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody. You are relieved of carrying that burden… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
But that's what happens when you allow a nice person to write a news paper serial for you; now the world thinks… — Karen Hawkins Copy Share Image
Increasing America’s debt weakens us domestically and internationally . Leadership means that 'the buck stops here.' Instead, Washington is shifting the burden… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
There is no 'thing' to let go of, but a concept, an idea of an ego that burdens us. As soon as… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
And we will move forward to our work, not howling out regrets like slaves whipped to their burdens, but with gratitude for… — Albert J. Beveridge Copy Share Image
The alternative minimum tax was designed to prevent the very wealthiest Americans from overusing certain tax benefits to avoid most of their… — Richard Neal Copy Share Image
“There are just some things you cannot bring yourself to say when you know it will break someone's heart. Sometimes it is… — Sarah Reid Copy Share Image
I love creating partnerships; I love not having to bear the entire burden of the creative storytelling, and when I have unions… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
There is nothing more valuable than great classroom instruction. But let's stop putting the whole burden on teachers. We also need better… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
The mounting burden of taxation not only undermines individual incentives to increased work and earnings, but in a score of ways discourages… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“His absence seemed a solid thing, a burden I must carry in addition to my grief... Yet I knew I would continue… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
In that hour of trial it was the love of his master that helped most to hold him firm; but also deep… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The burden is on Saddam Hussein. And our policy, our national policy - not the UN policy but our national policy -… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
“is your choice to relinquish your burden or not. But you can’t finish your journey if you don’t get rid of the… — Cyndy Sherwood Copy Share Image