Quotes on the topic: Burden


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I feel sometimes that in children's books there are more and more grim problems, but I don't know that I want to burden third- and fourth-graders with them.


People expect a lot more from someone they think looks interesting. It's a burden.


Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.


Asking your children about their fears or worries about going back to school will help them share their burden.


I love getting to be in 'The Avengers.' You just breathe a little bit. It's not all about you. It's so nice to have other people bearing the burden of responsibility.


No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.


When you make new musicals, you have the great freedom and the great burden that it can be changed.


Since I became a favorite in every race, it's just another burden that I have to bear.


We finally sat down and asked ourselves how much of our lives we wanted to give everybody. We had just given a little too much, and it started to become a burden.


If the Administration does nothing, high gasoline prices will continue to increasingly burden our economy, taking millions of dollars out of the hands of families and putting it straight into the pockets of OPEC.


It's a tremendous responsibility to be direct descendants of the prophet Muhammad. This family has had the burden of leadership on its shoulders for 1,400 years. I'm not going to drop the ball on my shift.


The fact that the Arctic, more than any other populated region of the world, requires the collaboration of so many disciplines and points of view to be understood at all, is a benefit rather than a burden.


Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot.


Monetary policy has less room to maneuver when interest rates are close to zero, while expansionary fiscal policy is likely both more effective and less costly in terms of increased debt burden when interest rates are pinned at low levels.


The American people ask, and legitimately so, why should we carry the heavy burden to ensure international peace and stability. You also profit from it, so you should also take your share in the burden. That's Secretary Gates's message. I share that message.


I think with the smaller-scale projects, the burden for success falls more squarely on the shoulders of the actors and the director and the script.


When you're writing stuff that's already clotted with neologisms and trying to get across fairly abstruse concepts, you're already putting a heavy burden on the reader.


I think Chris Burden is terrific. I really do.


Placing on writers the responsibility to represent a culture is an onerous burden.


The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction.