Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Thaw

Now are you going to save us a lot of time and trouble, Mr. Downes, and confess or are you going to be a burden on the tax payer?

Robert Thompson

rough contrivance to lift from the social conscience a burden that should not be either lifted or lightened in any way.

Scott Turow

Presumed Innocent was filmed for the movies and The Burden of Proof was filmed for TV.

Amory Lovins

Public discourse about climate change has resulted in the erroneous idea that it's all about cost, burden and sacrifice. If the math was correct, everyone would see it's about profit, jobs and competitive advantage.

Don Young

Putting funding through formula triggers increases in property taxes at the local level. Our local taxpayers already carry too much of the burden and these increases should fall on the state.

I've never written a character that wasn't burdened by years of pain and trauma. Let's face it: Most comic-book heroes have some serious baggage. Not Green Arrow. He's a healthy guy - imagine that? Carrying your hero around in your head, imagining the world through his eyes, is just a hoot.

It would be a financial burden on the schools.

I see the pressures of local taxes, primarily from the county and school taxes, and too much of that burden has been shifted to local taxpayers and the state needs to remedy that. Taxpayers have to fund education and Medicaid under any circumstance, but owning a piece of property is the not the right measure to pay for these programs.

It would just be another burden on businesses.

This is an independent group of people and the jury is going to do whatever the heck it wants to do, ... Burden of Proof.

This is a tremendous sense of guilt and burden that children should not have to bear.

This issue is one of burden and also of feeling bullied.

This is such a huge relief, a big burden off his shoulders. I think he can definitely get back on the podium again. We've got six weeks to make it happen.

This is obviously a major burden on an organization even as large as CTG, ... But this one deserves to be on our stage.

You're putting a financial burden on these businesses when you do that. How many times can you hit them? How many times can you go to the well?

You're going to get more dependence, and that's an increased tax burden on everybody.

You not only have changes in personnel, but you have increased involvement from the division of administration as this moves up the ladder which is typical of most state contracts. We have a heavy burden on our end in terms of how this project moves forward and how the taxpayers' dollars are spent.

Brandon Lee

You only have the burdens on you that you choose to put there.

Stephan Pastis

I never feel burdened or overwhelmed by my work. People tell you to find something you love for a career, and I have. That makes me feel very lucky.

Brandi Carlile

Bear the burdens of others, but don't put them in your pocket too.

We can no longer carry the burden of this underperforming product line. So we're now exploring other strategic options including the sale of our floor care business.

Tullian Tchividjian

The Gospel declares that our guilt has been atoned for, the law has been fulfilled. So we don't need to live under the burden of trying to appease the judgment we feel.

Thomas Friedman

There is nothing more valuable than great classroom instruction. But let's stop putting the whole burden on teachers. We also need better parents. Better parents can make every teacher more effective.

Arthur Schopenhauer

The old woman dies, the burden is lifted.

We really just want our kids to have the same kinds of opportunities that we have, and to make this a better country in the long term. We think the way to do that is to reduce the burden of government.

We have solid scientific evidence that screening through an organized program can reduce cancer deaths and, in some cases, even the incidence of certain cancers. Existing cancer screening has helped reduce the cancer toll in Canada. However, we need to do more to make the most of this opportunity, which has the potential to significantly reduce the cancer burden in this country.

And this the burden of his song / For ever used to be, / I care for nobody, not I, / If no one cares for me.

Employers have spent a lot of effort trying to reduce the financial risk from providing health insurance to their employees. But the greater risk is what employees' health problems can cost them in the form of lost productivity at work or the total burden of illness. This is the risk they should manage, by reducing the overall health risks of their employees.

Pat Roberts

especially with the high cost of energy already an enormous burden for our farmers and ranchers.

Steve Young

Brett is going to have a huge burden to try and lift the rest of the team. I think that burden is too much. I think for the first time in the last six or seven years, I think the burden actually will pull him backwards, maybe into the abyss.

John Boyle O'Reilly

No writer for the press, however humble, is free from the burden of keeping his purpose high and his integrity white.

While there may be short term costs to us individually or collectively, the burden of being secretive and lacking transparency would be catastrophic,

Everybody in Louisiana was watching the game. They're going through a lot of things right now, and I carry those burdens as well as they do. It's one of those things where you always want to represent and give a little light.