I say, if you're going to eat a creature alive, you have to expect some screaming. That is the carnivore's burden.
Our burden in going forward is tremendous. But our opportunity is glorious.
I think when we talk about corporal punishment, and we have to think about our own children, and we are rather reluctant, it seems to me, to have other people administering punishment to our own children, because we are reluctant, it puts a special obligation on us to maintain order and to send children out from our homes who accept the idea of discipline. So I would not be for corporal punishment in the school, but I would be for very strong discipline at home so we don't place an unfair burden on our teachers.
My color is my joy and not my burden.
People talk about love as though it were something you could give, like an armful of flowers. And a lot of people give love like that -- just dump it down on top of you, a useless strong-scented burden.
Let us be wary of ready-made ideas about cowardice and courage: the same burden weighs infinitely more heavily on some shoulders than on others.
When a great burden is lifted, the relief is not always felt at once. The galled places still ache.
I wept heartily over this poor little deceased soul. It was the first sentient being I had ever killed. I was now a killer. I was now as guilty as Cain. I was sixteen years old, a harmless boy, bookish and religious, and now I had blood on my hands. It's a terrible burden to carry. All sentient life is sacred.
No nation in history has ever survived a tax burden that reached a third of its national income.
There are none among us who have not been, even for a moment, cruel to those whom we love most, as if unable, in that moment, to shoulder any longer the magnificent weight and burden, the responsibility, of that love.
That he loved her was his life’s greatest grace—that she loved him was a burden and mystery beyond compare.
If you want less of something, tax it. If you want more of something, don't tax it or reduce the tax burden.
The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.
I know very well that Berlin attaches great importance to NATO and solidarity, in terms of sharing the burden. For this reason, I feel confident that the German government will take the right decision, one that serves both German and NATO interests.
Who had the bigger burden? The one who had to watch the other person endure or the one who endured?
You know, just in terms of having to have a life on the road, you know, having the celebrity aspect be a burden for my family, friends and extended family.
One can't erase the tremendous burden of apartheid in 10 years, 20 years, I believe, even 30 years.
I have been made to learn that the doom and burden of our life is bound forever on man’s shoulders; and when the attempt is made to cast it off, it but returns upon us with more unfamiliar and more awful pressure.
Redemption through the Cross is worse than damnation, because of the terrible burden it imposes upon humanity, because of the effect it has on the human soul, fettering and paralyzing it with the weight of the burden exacted through the death of Christ.
Out from the heart of Nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old.