Quotes About Burden

I ask our European partners for a truly European migration management. The burden of landings cannot weigh only on the countries of arrival.

I think so many of our educators, when they hear about these programs coming from the federal government, they're just thinking, 'Uh, that's another book of paperwork that I'm going to have to do,' and teachers are so weighed down with that.

To be weighed down by things - books, furniture - seems somehow terrible to me.

Responsibilities have weighed on me my whole life.

Sometimes I feel like there are just too many things weighing on my mind at once, and I can't control my thoughts or even my body at times.

Sometimes feeling overwhelmed is part of what it means to be a Christian. You can't bear somebody else's burden unless you are taking something of their load and it's weighing you down a little bit.

Beauty doesn't need ornaments. Softness can't bear the weight of ornaments.

The majority of my problems stem from other people's issues, but when you're a leader or somebody that people look to for guidance or to be a shoulder to lean on, you got to be strong enough to hold all that weight.

I've got the weight of a rather tempestuous life to carry.

There's nothing heavier than the weight of sin in our lives. It's crushing. What a luxury to know the burden of it can be lifted off our shoulders if we repent and give it to God.

Many a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or peace after death.

But without a caring society, without each citizen voluntarily accepting the weight of responsibility, government is destined to grow even larger, taking more of your money, burrowing deeper into your lives.

The natural movement of one's soul is upwards. But just as any object is dragged down when a heavy weight is tied to it, the burden of the body drags down the soul.

We all have a cross to carry. I have to carry my own cross. If we don't carry our crosses, we are going to be crushed under the weight of it.

The weight that hangs upon our eyelids - is of lead.

A 20-pound weight on the back of a small horse is more damaging than a 20-pound weight on a very big horse.

I felt the weight of the past at the beginning of my career of singer.

I have to confess that there have been some times when I was less than glad to be a minister, and some Sundays still when I tremble under the weight of trying to speak a word for God.

Suddenly in the end when it's over, you feel a big weight on your shoulders. That's the role of the captain. Unfortunately, it's sometimes like that in sport.

Finally, you get the job, and you think you'll be dancing on the ceiling, but I just wanted to go take a nap. It was just like a weight had been lifted off or something.

I don't think I could've carried the weight that Murrow carried.

It's the weight of expectation that's the hardest to deal with, really, from my point of view.

If you play a part that's been done before, on stage for instance, you feel like you're carrying a torch and staggering under the weight of it for a bit and then passing it on to somebody else.

Now that I'm feeling the responsibilities of adulthood, the choices we make become an incredible weight.