Overburden Quotes & Sayings

The apportionment of taxes on the various descriptions of property is an act which seems to require the most exact impartiality; yet there is, perhaps, no legislative act in which greater opportunity and temptation are given to a predominant party to trample on the rules of justice. Every shilling which they overburden the inferior number is a shilling saved to their own pockets. — James Madison

I didn't ever think about being an actor. But I fell in love with it when I realized how amazing, difficult, and interesting it is. — Gregg Sulkin

[Do not] overburden yourself with rules of devotion, but persist in doing well those you have, your daily actions, your work; in a word, let everything revolve around doing well what you are doing. — Vincent De Paul

We simply do not catch a high enough percentage of users to make the law a real threat, although we do catch enough to seriously overburden our legal system. — John Kaplan

No matter how much fame you get, no matter how much money you make, no matter how much admiration you get, nothing feels as monumental as when someone tells you that something you did changed their outlook on life. — Zack W. Van

Not only are you what you eat, but you also can be what's eating you. Don't become your problems or let them overtake you. — Anthony Liccione

And these gems of Heav'n, her starry train. — John Milton

The heart is refined, spiritual, and heavenly by nature - guard it; do not overburden it, do not make it earthly, be temperate to the utmost in food and drink, and in general in bodily pleasures. The heart is the temple of God. 'If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy' (I Cor. 3:17). — John Of Kronstadt

The best leaders blend courage with compassion. — Robin Sharma

I have always loved rock music. But I have played country music since my senior year in high school. That's where my heart is. I try to keep up with the rock world as much as I can. — Tracy Byrd

No one in a productive society wants you to know there ways of looking at the world other than their ways, and among the effects drugs may have is that of switching a mind from the normal track. Reading the works of certain writers has a corresponding effect. When receptive individuals explore the writings of someone such as Lovecraft, they are majestically solaced to find articulations of existence countering those to which the heads around them have become habituated. — Thomas Ligotti

I've always been interested in definitions, because in the Bible, the Ten Commandments are there but there's no real clear definition of what sin is, in a fundamental sense - how we can use the words to evaluate our lives as we go along: Am I doing something that is ethically good? Am I being worthwhile in my life at this moment? — Whitley Strieber

How hard we work to overburden and overcomplicate our lives! — Marty Rubin

He's like several different people in one body. Isn't that a symptom of schizophrenia? I must Google that. — E.L. James