Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Vick

They place burdens and expectations on me, ... What people don't understand is that it takes time in this game. They expect me to win a Super Bowl. They expect me to go out and throw for 4,000 yards and rush for 1,000 yards every season. But it doesn't work like that.

David Freeman

They have had to carry the burden of the port's success.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Shoulders are from God and burdens too.

Flannery O'Connor

Total non-retention has kept my education from being a burden to me.

Frederick Banting

Insulin is not a cure for diabetes; it is a treatment. It enables the diabetic to burn sufficient carbohydrates, so that proteins and fats may be added to the diet in sufficient quantities to provide energy for the economic burdens of life.

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.

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.

FEMA will not have this preparedness burden on it anymore,

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.

Patrick Murray

As the campaign gets under way and voters take a closer look at the candidates, property taxes will be at the forefront, ... have to convince the voters that they are serious about lowering the property tax burden and that they can do it without significantly raising other taxes.

Michio Kaku

Originally, the burden of proof was on physicists to prove that time travel was possible. Now the burden of proof is on physicists to prove there must be a law forbidding time travel.

The time is very precious. When they come into first grade or kindergarten for the first time, they learn within a few weeks of the school experience that they're not as capable, and that's a burden that is extremely damaging.

Eric Chavez

I started scoreboard-watching three or four weeks ago; that's when you know things are starting to get interesting. It's not a burden to be playing for the playoffs. This is the time of the year when every game counts, every pitch counts. It's an honor to be able to play for something when other teams are making vacation plans.

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.

Ella Wilcox

What can be said in New Year rhymes,That's not been said a thousand times?The new years come, the old years go,We know we dream, we dream we know.We rise up laughing with the light,We lie down weeping with the night.We hug the world until it stings,We curse it then and sigh for wings.We live, we love, we woo, we wed,We wreathe our prides, we sheet our dead.We laugh, we weep, we hope, we fear,And that's the burden of a year.

Dick Cheney

What the Clinton/Gore administration has done is to shortchange the military, continue to impose significant burdens on them and not made the kind of investments that need to be made,

We will undoubtedly see some of the tax burden shift to residential.

Prince Charles

Truly the burden of the world rests on your shoulders,

Joseph B. Wirthlin

While we yearn for peace, we live in a world burdened with hunger, pain, anguish, loneliness, sickness, and sorrow.

Donny Osmond

With success came an ever-growing burden of responsibility. I lived with a near-constant low-level anxiety that I would make a mistake that would not only threaten my career, but also my brothers' - not to mention the livelihoods of many people who work with us or for us.

There are several hundred municipal mandates in Connecticut. Many of these are partially funded or unfunded and are problematic and unfair because they create financial burdens that cost taxpayers money. Cities and towns have only two ways to pay for these mandates: increase taxes and fees or cut programs and services.

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

We don't want students to be a burden on families. When (our family) hosted a student, we didn't feel an impact on our family budget.

We certainly don't want to burden a company with dues.

Users do not want be burdened with having to remember to carry a device like a smart card.

There's only one way -- through good science. We know the burden is upon us to do this right.

There's still time to forge a genuine national compact and promote a national identity, but institutional restraints that so far have prevented a break-up are fast eroding. The main burden is on Iraq's leaders, but they need all the help and pressure the US and others can muster.

There should be a lower burden on local property taxpayers.