Burdensome Quotes

#1. Beneath your burdensome regrets and who you think you are through the lens of past mistakes, there is someone beautiful who wants to emerge.

Bryant McGill

#2. Where self-interest is suppressed, it is replaced by a burdensome system of bureaucratic control that dries up the wellsprings of initiative and creativity.

P. J. O'Rourke

#3. The only legitimate basis of creative work lies in the courageous recognition of all the irreconcilable antagonisms that make our life so enigmatic, so burdensome, so fascinating, so dangerous - so full of hope.

Joseph Conrad

#4. When thought is in bondage the truth is hidden, for everything is murky and unclear, and the burdensome practice of judging brings annoyance and weariness. What benefit can be derived from distinctions and separations?

Sengcan

#5. Every person has to prepare himself to the point where no place would be burdensome for him. The place may get bored with him, but he will not get bored; he has to get prepared to that extent. Because otherwise these are infinite places; there is no end to the places. Infinite places are there.

Dada Bhagwan

#6. The cost of being a publicly traded stock has gone way, way up. It doesn't make sense for a little company to be public anymore. A lot of little companies are going private to be rid of these burdensome requirements ...

Charlie Munger

#7. This is what the love of God means, that we observe his commandments; and yet his commandments are not burdensome. 1 John 5:3

Anonymous

#8. I was living an extremely burdensome life, because every time I prayed, I became more clearly aware of my faults. On the one hand, God was calling me. On the other, I was following the way of the world. Doing what God wanted made me happy; but I felt bound by the things of this world.

Saint Teresa Of Avila

#9. I wondered what it was like to live in a world with the freedom to choose. Did you somehow lose yourself, or your focus, when decisions pulled your mind in so many directions? Was it confusing, burdensome, somehow?

Sarah Domet

#10. The American people should be free to advocate for their candidates and their positions without burdensome limitations.

Mitt Romney

#11. The rule of law bakes no bread, it is unable to distribute loaves or fishes (it has none), and it cannot protect itself against external assault, but it remains the most civilized and least burdensome conception of a state yet to be devised.

Michael Oakeshott

#12. Why must one climb the hill ? Why must one climb? Why not stay below? Why force one's way up the slope? Why force one's way up and up, when one is at the bottom? Oh, it was very tiring, very wearying, very burdensome. Always burdens, always, always burdens.

D.H. Lawrence

#13. Education is not acquisition of burdensome information regarding objects and men. It is the awareness of the immortal spirit within,, which is the spring of joy, peace and courage.

Sai Baba

#14. History had its fascinations, but could be burdensome.

William Gibson

#15. O impotence of mind, in body strong! But what is strength without a double share Of wisdom, vast, unwieldy, burdensome, Proudly secure, yet liable to fall By weakest subtleties, not made to rule, But to subserve where wisdom bears command.

John Milton

#16. Life and Death took a break,
weary from their burdensome role.
Nobody lived or died that day.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#17. For men who had easily endured hardship, danger and difficult uncertainty, leisure and riches, though in some ways desirable, proved burdensome and a source of grief.

Sallust

#18. There are over 170,000 pages of regulations in Washington, D.C. I want to streamline the rules in the federal government to basically allow businesses to grow without fear of burdensome federal regulations. That's a passion to me, regulatory reform.

Jason T. Smith

#19. When griefs are genuine, I find, there is nothing more vacuous, more burdensome, or even more impertinent, than letters of consolation.

Lord Chesterfield

#20. I have walked myself into my best thoughts and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it ... but by sitting still, and the more one sits still, the closer one comes to feeling ill.

Soren Kierkegaard

#21. What is amazing is how we treat a meeting with God as ordinary or burdensome.

Francis Chan

#22. For a majority of women it remains difficult to reconcile increasingly burdensome maternal responsibilities with personal fulfillment.

Elisabeth Badinter

#23. I am shy by nature, a person who's always found something burdensome about human interaction and who probably always will, at least to some degree.

Caroline Knapp

#24. I came here as a practical man, to talk, not simply on the question of peace and war, but to treat another question which is of hardly less importance - the enormous and burdensome standing armaments which it is the practice of modern Governments to sustain in time of peace.

Richard Cobden

#25. When we are true to ourselves, all that is toxic and burdensome simply falls away

Dina Hansen

#26. The future is dark, the present burdensome. Only the past, dead and buried, bears contemplation.

Geoffrey Elton

#27. Definitely the biggest misconception is that it is overly burdensome to be a woman and pursue this line of work. But being a woman gives me a unique perspective and style, which is probably why I get the work that I do.

Reed Morano

#28. The National Flood Insurance Program is a voluntary program. If a community really feels that the building insurance requirements are too burdensome, they don't have to participate.

Earl Blumenauer

#29. Do you understand what this passage is saying? When we love, we're free! We don't have to worry about a burdensome load of commands, because when we are loving, we can't sin.

Francis Chan

#30. When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.

Herodotus

#31. Nothing in this world is more burdensome than sin - it is the heaviest cross men and women ever bear.

Jeffrey R. Holland

#32. By saying "blessed are those who mourn", Jesus does not intend to declare an unfortunate and burdensome condition in life to be happy. Suffering is not a value in itself, but a reality that Jesus teaches us to live with the correct attitude.

Pope Francis

#33. I, myself, sank into that abysmal pit of feeling utterly worthless, useless and burdensome. Caring for an animal, especially one that's been rescued, can help return people to a sense of being needed and useful.

Ken Wahl

#34. I knew that Sundays in England aren't just ordinary dull Sundays, the same the world over, which demand that one simply tiptoe through without disturbing them or paying them the least attention, they are vaster and slower and more burdensome than anywhere else I know.

Javier Marias

#35. It is no secret that our tax code is drastically outdated and burdensome to all Americans. Fortunately, more and more people are aware daily of the inequities that arise from things such as the estate tax, and it has come to the forefront of Congress' agenda.

Jeff Miller

#36. The real trouble is that the pure Word of Jesus has been overlaid with so much human ballast - burdensome rules and regulations, false hopes and consolations - that it has become extremely difficult to make a genuine decision for Christ.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#37. My dear Scipio and Laelius. Men, of course, who have no resources in themselves for securing a good and happy life find every age burdensome. But those who look for all happiness from within can never think anything bad which Nature makes inevitable.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#38. Above all, do not loose your desire to walk. Every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness. I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it.

Soren Kierkegaard

#39. However many and however great and burdensome your sins may be, with God there is greater mercy. Just as His majesty is, so likewise is His mercy.

Patriarch Tikhon Of Moscow

#40. Sorrows when shared are less burdensome, though joys divided are increased.

Bill Vaughan

#41. If you have an open, loving, positive attitude, anything burdensome in life can be lightened!

James Van Praagh

#42. Since bad men find the rule of kings no less burdensome than that of tyrants, the recognition of the right of private citizens to kill tyrants involves rather more chance of losing a king than of being relieved of a tyrant.

William Archibald Dunning

#43. He, then, that would mortify any disquieting lust: let him take care to be equally diligent in all parts of obedience, and know that every lust, every omission of duty, is burdensome to God, though only one be burdensome to him.

John Owen

#44. It is not death therefore that is burdensome, but the fear of death.

Ambrose Burnside

#45. When a book remembers, we remember. It reminds you that you have a body. So many of the things we may think of as burdensome are actually the things that make us more human.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#46. The Obama administration has already imposed burdensome regulations - for instance, the sprawling Clean Power Plan aimed at wiping out the coal industry - that will raise the cost of energy and put hundreds of thousands of Americans out of work.

John Barrasso

#47. Nothing is burdensome if taken lightly, and nothing need arouse one's irritation so long as one doesn't make it bigger than it is by getting irritated.

Seneca.

#48. For every bridge you burn
there is the burdensome task
of building another one.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#49. Let me start by emphasizing that I am open to efforts to expedite environmental procedures for true emergencies or in other clear cases where current laws are needlessly burdensome.

Sherwood Boehlert

#50. One no longer becometh poor or rich; both are too burdensome. Who still wanteth to rule? Who still wanteth to obey? Both are too burdensome.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#51. Worry is a part of life. These burdensome thoughts plaque us all. The key is not to let these thoughts ruin your day & your life.

Timothy Pina

#52. That which renders life burdensome to us generally arises from the abuse of it.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#53. In any real democracy, magistracy isn't a benefit - it's a burdensome responsibility that can't fairly be imposed on one individual rather than another

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#54. To retrieve the past is no great effort, when the events to be recalled are so firmly imprinted on the mind. It is existence in the present, the bleak wreckage and residue of what has gone before, that is so burdensome.

K.W. Jeter

#55. The most reasonable of requests felt burdensome if a person had no choice in the matter.

Juliet Marillier

#56. Yajna is not yajna if one feels it to be burdensome or annoying.

Mahatma Gandhi

#57. Nothing is more burdensome than an unfinished task.

Jim Rohn

#58. Many think that the price of discipleship is too costly and too burdensome. For some, it involves giving up too much. But the cross is not as heavy as it appears to be. Through obedience, we acquire much greater strength to carry it.

James E. Faust

#59. Trust free people and free enterprise as opposed to meddling, burdensome government.

George Allen

#60. Wisdom is at all times the least burdensome traveling pack.

William Camden

#61. Vulgarity finds its antidote; old crudities become softened with time. Distinctions, both those that are useful and those that are burdensome, flourish and die, reflourish and die again.

Robert Burchfield

#62. Moralism and its stepchild, legalism, reduce the love story of God for his people to the observance of burdensome duties and oppressive laws.

Brennan Manning

#63. To be sensitively aware of thought, of feeling, of the world about you, of your office and of nature, is to explode from moment to moment in affection. Without affection, every action becomes burdensome and mechanical and leads to decay.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#64. Prayer need not be a burdensome duty. It is meant to be a joyful and creative privilege.

Hannah Hurnard

#65. A state-based regulatory system is quite burdensome. It allows price controls to create market distortions. It can hinder development of national products and can directly impact the competitiveness of U.S. insurers.

Henry Paulson