Onerous Quotes

#1. For a novelist, it's kind of an onerous burden to represent an entire culture.

Khaled Hosseini

#2. Although one may direct the future or past through the onerous linkages of temporal cause and effect, riding the breaking waves of the present and never once overstepping it, the better way is to go there and do it yourself.

Mary-Jean Harris

#3. Throwing money at something doesn't really create - forgive me that onerous word - art.

Harold Prince

#4. I awaken in the morning with confidence, rejoicing in whatever work is given to me to do. Whatever that work is, I do it, not in order to earn a living or in a sense of performing an onerous duty; but, with joy and gladness, I let it unfold as the activity of God's expression through me.

Joel S. Goldsmith

#5. Shit is a more onerous theological problem than is evil.

Milan Kundera

#6. Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it's twice as onerous a duty.

John Selden

#7. Cooking can be rewarding when it is a choice and no longer the onerous duty of the housewife, and when a dishwasher can lighten the load at the other end of the process.

Julian Baggini

#8. Some realities are too onerous to be borne by nations, let alone by children.

Gregory Maguire

#9. It was through reading that I discovered the crucial, even sacrosanct place the rituals of drinking held in the American imagination - the ingenious way alcohol seemed to lubricate everything from onerous chitchat to self-conscious sexual advances.

Daphne Merkin

#10. We just simply want to get back to basics, get - restore essentially the constitutional foundation of the country, and that means the federal government becoming less onerous, less involved in every - basically every item of our lives. And what that means is there does have to be some transition.

Joe Miller

#11. The crowning insult [of abortion] is that this ordeal is represented to her as some kind of a privilege.Her sad and onerous duty is garbed in the rhetoric of a civil right.

Germaine Greer

#12. Woman, no less than man, can qualify herself for the more onerous occupations of life.

Victoria Woodhull

#13. On this morning his first waking moments were filled with the audible lamenting breath of having survived another winter night on the streets of St. Louis, those onerous recurring sighs that had become his respiration.

Dan Groat

#14. Placing on writers the responsibility to represent a culture is an onerous burden.

Amy Tan

#15. The situation of having to belong to a state to which one does not wish is no less onerous if it is the result of an election than if one must endure it as the consequence of a military conquest.

Ludwig Von Mises

#16. Without true medical liability reform, our doctors will continue to leave, and young doctors coming out of medical school $100,000 to $200,000 in debt will not be able to afford such onerous costs.

Jim Gerlach

#17. A harmony established contrary to sense is often more onerous than a war.

Victor Hugo

#18. As a man, this child would be one's offering to the future races of men. The burden of his upbringing, wherever it fell: however tiresome or onerous, was of no importance compared with his living grasp of the future.

Dorothy Dunnett

#19. The federal government needs to get off the backs of small businesses and let the private sector grow and create jobs instead of harnessing it with onerous regulations and a repressive tax code.

Matt Salmon

#20. In a free country, government is a dull and onerous responsibility. It is a parent-teacher conference.

P. J. O'Rourke

#21. The responsibilities which are imposed by rank and privilege and good fortune can ... become very onerous indeed.

Robert W. Welch Jr.

#22. Air travel survived decades of terrorism, including attacks which resulted in the deaths of everyone on the plane. It survived 9/11. It'll survive the next successful attack. The only real worry is that we'll scare ourselves into making air travel so onerous that we won't fly anymore.

Bruce Schneier

#23. Isolation in creative work is an onerous thing. Better to have negative criticism than nothing at all.

Anton Chekhov

#24. competition could turn the most mundane task into a thrill, and that successfully completing a job - no matter how onerous - made me feel unaccountably happy.

Scott Jurek

#25. Being a witch was indeed an onerous task. If people accepted us, they wanted the impossible. If they didn't, they wanted to burn us at the stake.

Maria E. Schneider

#26. It is preferable to incur a mild punishment than to perform an onerous task.

Roald Dahl

#27. My kids say if there's any family dinner that doesn't result in somebody crying, it's not a good dinner. They cry because it helps relieve them of a guilt or some onerous emotional burden. It's like a family tradition.

William Shatner

#28. Taxation according to income is the most effective instrument yet devised to obtain just contribution from those best able to bear it and to avoid placing onerous burdens upon the mass of our people.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#29. The most onerous slavery is to be a slave to oneself.

Seneca The Younger

#30. There is nothing more onerous than enforced gratitude.

Margaret Atwood

#31. When you're making a TV drama, the showrunner is God, and so however onerous and difficult and consuming that responsibility is, you're being treated with respect, so it changes your whole outlook to the production. You're being asked about costumes, set design, music, every aspect of the show.

Michael Hirst

#32. Onerous moral strictures weed out the uncommitted and guarantee a minimum level of solidarity and trust within the group.

Eduardo Porter

#33. The EPA's greenhouse gas regulations, along with a host of other onerous regulations, are unnecessarily driving out conventional fuels as part of America's energy mix. The consequences are higher energy prices for families and a contraction of our nation's economic growth.

Gina McCarthy

#34. When accepting a responsibility, imagine that it's something that you'll have to do next week. That way you don't agree to something just because it seems so far off that it doesn't seem onerous.

Gretchen Rubin

#35. We have the means to change the laws we find unjust or onerous. We cannot, as citizens, pick and choose the laws we will or will not obey.

Ronald Reagan