Better guilt than the terrible burden of freedom and responsibility.
Sometimes I feel I have more faith in European ideals than some of my British or French friends. For them, it's a financial burden. For me, Europe is primarily about values, about fundamental rights, freedom, women's rights.
Now you know how badly someone wanted you, Charley. Children forget that sometimes. They think of themselves as a burden instead of a wish granted.
I think I’m greedy, but I’m not greedy for money - I think that can be a burden - I’m greedy for an exciting life.
Being an actor writer is a responsibility and a burden and a gift. The responsibility to me is that you can't just wait to be cast into something and then you create the role. You almost have a voice inside of you telling you what you might want to play and be able to play. It's hard, but once that thing comes out of the printer and you hold those warm pages to your cheek it's great. It's a huge sense of accomplishment.
If you bear the cross unwillingly, you make it a burden, and load yourself more heavily; but you must bear it.
Having lived in Utah all of my life, I can tell that in many ways I know of no place more lonely, no place more unfamiliar. When I talk about how it is both a blessing and a burden to have those kinds of roots, it can be terribly isolating, because when you are so familiar, you know the shadow.
Assist a man in raising a burden; but do not assist him in laying it down.
The human mind is utterly stupid when it carries, quite willingly, the heavy burden of resentment.
I think that the internet is a beast of burden.
The sparrow is sorry for the peacock at the burden of its tail.
American leadership is not simply a matter of going it alone and bearing all of the burden ourselves.
No nation in history has ever survived a tax burden that reached a third of its national income.
The essential in artistic creativity is victory over the burden of necessity. In art, man lives outside himself, outside his burdens, the burdens of life. Every creative artistic act is a partial transfiguration of life. In the artistic concept man breaks out through the heaviness of the world. In the creative-artistic attitude towards this world we catch a glimpse of another world.
Peace comes not because your prayer has been answered exactly as you prayed it, but because you shifted your focus and the burden of responsibility on to Him.
Frequently the burden or concern in the spirit is for prayer.
My likely historical significance is a terrible burden. ~ Calvin
This business of womanhood is a heavy burden.
I did all the work at the beginning up until the point where I couldn't handle the increasingly heavy art production burden alone. I needed, and got, assistance.
Why, then, did I always feel as if his happiness was my responsibility? It wasn't fair for him to burden me with that. It had never been fair.