Famous Quotes & Sayings

Spread the burden evenly and require businesses in Texas, where we have a very favorable business environment to pay more of their fair share.

Sonny Perdue

My purpose in temporarily suspending fuel tax collection is to relieve some of the financial burden placed on Georgians by disruptions of our fuel supply resulting from the effects of Hurricane Katrina,

Many governments have said they are concerned about the burden of form-filling and inspection on business - but we are the first to face up to the challenge by pledging to properly measure the scale of the problem and then set meaningful targets to reduce it,

It is entirely undemocratic to continue these burdens on the people for years and years after the requirements of protection have been met and the representatives of these industries have become incrusted with wealth.

Tom Daschle

That would lift a great burden from the Senate,

Most businesspeople are properly skeptical of government programs labeled 'streamlined,' ... I'm skeptical of the burden this is placing on some smaller businesses. I'm skeptical of government's efforts to force retailers to charge taxes for an incredible number of municipalities around the country.

Mark Dayton

Methamphetamine labs can be found in virtually every state in our nation. Nobody is safe, and we all share the burden of cleanup costs.

Juan Carlos

I think people will respond, ... That's the good part of a festival like this - it can take that burden off people's minds, for a day at least.

Orrin Hatch

We must protect the rights of the creator, but we cannot in the name of copyright unduly burden consumers and the promising technology the Internet presents to all of us,

Stephen Ames

It has been a big burden on me trying to play golf, ... It was very difficult for me to focus or even see shots that I wanted to play because there are other things that were playing in my mind.

I struggle with the burden we are going to put on the taxpayers.

Graham Nash

We just about finished mixing the record at my house in Hawaii, Crosby was there and Russell and Nathaniel, and when we figured out that we would be going out with CSN this year and that we had all this new music. I knew that it would be a burden for Stephen to try and learn 20 new songs, because they - they're not easy.

Eric Chavez

We were made a mockery of in the first two months and here we are in September still playing for something. We've come through a lot. It's not a burden to be playing for the playoffs. There are a lot of teams making vacation plans.

We clearly are in a much better economic position than other rural counties. Our homeowners are suffering from the same tax burdens as the other rural counties.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Shoulders are from God and burdens too.

Homer

I live an idle burden to the ground.

J. Paul Getty

I find all this money a considerable burden.

George Herbert

Knowledge is no burden.

I felt such relief when I knew that he had been found. It was a big burden that had been lifted,

Tim Buckley

I don't think everybody realizes how much of a burden this has been for (Mills), losing Peyton. He came into the season being Robin and now he's Batman.

I am very proud of this resolution, and I hope that the New Brunswick Faculty Council adopts this policy because it's one step further in lessening the incredible burden that textbooks are on college students.

If, coming out of this, ... New Orleans gets to lessen the burden of the social problems that its city and state government are supposed to solve, that would be amazing.

Lauren Jackson

I feel light as a feather, ... I'm really happy that we won. I feel like everyone has written us off all year, and I just knew we could make the playoffs. God, it just feels so good. It feels like a huge burden off our shoulders.

I don't want to put that burden on the staff, to go with someone from the outside would be better.

John W. Snow

I don't think they will derail the economy but they are a burden on the economy,

He's not going to stand by and let this problem become an even heavier burden on the city-county health clinics in Montana.

Billy Graham

How often we commit our burdens to the Lord and then fail to trust Him by taking matters into our own hands. Then, when we have messed things up, we pray, "Oh, Lord, help me, I'm in trouble." The choice is yours. Do you want to trust your life in God's "pocket" or keep it in your own?

Parents seek to raise their children to be self-sufficient adults. If children can vote, drive, order a drink and go to war, why do parents feel obligated to carry the full financial burden of their college education?

Over the last several months, we have been through some very difficult and tumultuous times. Many of these events have been very disruptive and harmful to my personal well being, my family and many of my closest friends. This is a burden I will no longer carry.

The overall funding is still less than half of what is needed to comply with (NCLB), leaving the burden on states and local taxpayers.

Daniel Kahneman

Yes, there is a burden of financial insecurity. I don't think you find it in mood. Income is correlated with life satisfaction, so maybe you do find it in life satisfaction. You don't find it in mood, and I think it is very important.

Wole Soyinka

The scales of reckoning with mortality are never evenly weighted, alas, and thus it is on the shoulders of the living that the burden of justice must continue to rest.

Justin Trudeau

Living your life in the public eye is a greater burden than most people can imagine.