“Sometimes, he thought wryly, a reputation for being right all the time could be a heavy burden.”

“Time is heavy sometimes; imagine how heavy eternity must be.”

Emil M. Cioran (1911–1995) Romanian philosopher and essayist

“A heart's a heavy burden.”

Diana Wynne Jones book Howl's Moving Castle

“Her drama was a drama not of heaviness but of lightness. What fell to her lot was not the burden but the unbearable lightness of being.”

Milan Kundera (1929–2023) Czech author of Czech and French literature

“This business of womanhood is a heavy burden.”

Tsitsi Dangarembga (1959) Zimbabwean author and filmmaker

“The cabbie laughed. "All right, mister. A guy can tell when he's being kidded." Sometimes," Jencks said, "but only sometimes.”

Michael Crichton book Odds On

“My father, more perceptive than many, wryly commented that by the time I was an adult there might not be an Indian Civil Service to enter. He turned out to be right. I had to settle for British politics instead.”

Margaret Thatcher book Statecraft: Strategies for a Changing World

“When I ran for Presidency of the United States, I knew that this country faced serious challenges, but I could not realize — nor could any man realize who does not bear the burdens of this office — how heavy and constant would be those burdens.”

John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America

“Those of us who shout the loudest about Americanism in making character assassinations are all too frequently those who, by our own words and acts, ignore some of the basic principles of Americanism:
:The right to criticize;
:The right to hold unpopular beliefs;
:The right to protest;
:The right of independent thought.
The exercise of these rights should not cost one single American citizen his reputation or his right to a livelihood nor should he be in danger of losing his reputation or livelihood merely because he happens to know someone who holds unpopular beliefs. Who of us doesn't? Otherwise none of us could call our souls our own. Otherwise thought control would have set in.”

Margaret Chase Smith (1897–1995) Member of the United States Senate from Maine

“Being right half the time beats being half-right all the time.”

Malcolm Forbes (1919–1990) American publisher