Quotes About Burden

Small-business people do not want to have more than 50 employees, because that's when all the regulatory burden of Obamacare kicks in.

If someone wants to give you, like, $100 million, it's hard to say no. But I don't want to accept that kind of money right now. I'd feel burdened by it.

Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations.

Passive resistance is a sport for gentleman (and ladies)-just like the pursuit of war, a heroic enterprise for the ruling classes but a grievous burden on the rest.

Societies can be sunk by the weight of buried ugliness.

A body can't run from what they done. They carry it with them inside. It fester and spread like poison if it's buried. It gotta be out in the air where it can heal.

I spent my whole life wantin' to take care of children. You a blessing, not a burden." She looked at me hard. "Don't you go forgettin' that." She patted my shoulder and left me alone. As I fell asleep, it come to me that that was the first time anybody had ever told me I was a blessing.

This is a real pain in the neck," said Brandon M., wearing a yoke to carry two buckets of water.

Think of me as the porter . . . and consider the possiblity that life might be less exhausting if you unloaded some of your bags on to my empty trolley.

She constantly felt as if she were physically wading through air the consistency of thick, wet cement. The

He'd already endured enough guilt in his life. Quite possibly, he'd run out of space to carry any more.

Troubles. They stick to skin like glue, like gum to the sole of a shoe. They slide into the crevices of your heart, slither into your veins, and tug at you from the inside until they become something dark and heavy and not so easy to shake. The

Fear is worse than pain, I think. Pain is centralized, identifiable, and wanes as you wait. Fear is a heaviness you can't wriggle out from under.

Encyclopedias?" he asked George. "So damn heavy.

turning an immense pecuniary Mangle.

An ox is born and bred to carry our burdens. A saint is like an ox.

The idea of being strong for someone else having never entered their heads, I find myself in the position of having to console them. Since I'm the person going in to be slaughtered, this is somewhat annoying.

The strain of being a full-fledged adult every day had grown tiresome.

I think she is relieved by Haymitch's absence, and who can blame her?

I feel like I owe him something, and I hate owing people.

You shoot me and go home and live with it!" And as I say it, I know death right here, right now would be the easier of the two.

You'll be the only one who remembers, Sloane, and that in itself could be a curse. I hope you choose wisely.

You owe them the truth. And the more you give them, the less you have to carry.

But she would learn. Every woman was a prisoner for life; it was not some burden that she bore uniquely. She would have all the company she could ever need. *