#burden

Our country, the United States of America, may be the world's largest economy and the world's only superpower, but we stretch ourselves dangerously thin by taking on commitments like Iraq with only a motley band of allies to share the burden. ↗

— John Spratt

#america #band #burden #commitments #country

It is the tendency of the social burdens to crush out the middle class, and to force society into an organization of only two classes, one at each social extreme. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

#class #classes #crush #each #extreme

Politicians also have a love affair with the 'small business exemption.' Too much paperwork? Too heavy a burden? Not enough time? Just exempt small businesses from the rule. It sounds so pro-growth. Instead it's an admission that the costs of a regulation just can't be justified. ↗

— John Sununu

#affair #also #burden #business #businesses

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

— Amy Tan

#culture #onerous #placing #represent #responsibility

Do not free the camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel. ↗

— M. Kathleen Casey

#burden #camel #free #freeing #him

The winds that blow our billions away return burdened with themes of scorn and dispraise. ↗

— Garet Garrett

#billions #blow #burdened #our #return

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us. ↗

— Samuel Smiles

#behind #burden #casts #journey #like

Musical types tend to combine the burden of the author with the burden of the actor. ↗

— Iggy Pop

#author #burden #combine #musical #tend

I thought if my son was now eighteen years old and he was tempted to join the fight and take the burden of protecting his family - because it's always tempting especially for young men - what would I do as a mother to stop him? ↗

— Nadine Labaki

#because #burden #eighteen #especially #family

A wild light came into Frodo's eyes. 'Stand away! Don't touch me!' he cried. 'It is mine, I say. Be off!' His hand strayed to his sword-hilt. But then quickly his voice changed. 'No, no, Sam,' he said sadly. 'But you must understand. It is my burden, and no one else can bear it. It is too late now, Sam dear. You can't help me in that way again. I am almost in its power now. I could not give it up, and if you tried to take it I should go mad. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#frodo #j-r-r-tolkien #sam #the-lord-of-the-rings #change