Pastoral Resources

The burden of the past is only, I think, oppressive when you've got to go on the experience of the avant garde.

Until you have lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.

The Democratic Party opposes tax cuts but it cannot say so publicly. Thus, it is forced to support the idea of lowering the tax burden but using class warfare rhetoric to dispute the allocation of the relief.

OFSTED has made large cuts in the paperwork which schools are asked to provide and further steps to reduce the bureaucratic burden will be introduced in September.

The collective conscience of a hundred musicians is no light burden. Think for a moment of what it would mean to a pianist if by some miracle every key of his instrument should suddenly become a living thing.

The alternative minimum tax was designed to prevent the very wealthiest Americans from overusing certain tax benefits to avoid most of their tax burden.

People really have to believe in their tax system. They have to believe that there is an equitable distribution of the burden, but there is also an important investment based upon the potential achievements that come from us paying our taxes.

We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday's burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it.

I saw him... at peace in my armchair. I remember wishing he could stay in peace like that forever. I had a feeling of easing his burden with my strength.

The artist writes, paints, sings or dances the burden of some idea or feeling off his mind.

It puts the provider in a situation of looking for ways to have someone else pick up a piece of the cost. As a result, every customer who has insurance ends up paying a 'hidden premium.' It simply adds to the health care cost burden.

I think there have been some periods when the writing almost became a bit of a burden.

The burden which is well borne becomes light.

A diagnosis is burden enough without being burdened by secrecy and shame.

Remember, the burden of sorrow is doubled when it is borne alone.

There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.

No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.

He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.

Information is a source of learning. But unless it is organized, processed, and available to the right people in a format for decision making, it is a burden, not a benefit.

Being Elvis Presley's daughter is a whole lot of pressure. It's been a constant burden in my life.