Overburdened Quotes

A lot of boxers have too much on their plate.

But I'm thinking about 12 things at once, a hundred thousand times a day. Most people do, I would imagine.

He had more on his mind than his mind could hold.

There are too many people that depend on me. I'm too obligated. I'm in too far to get out.

Doves that are too heavily armed don't fly.

When things get too grand or too big, I struggle to keep up with it all.

Women don't take care of themselves because they take care of everybody else.

I'm deeply involved in big problems.

Doing films and TV together becomes difficult to manage when you have too many things in your hand.

Wearing a turtleneck is like being strangled by a really weak guy, all day. Wearing a backpack and a turtleneck is like a weak midget trying to bring you down.

The ass that is common property is always the worst saddled.

I'm drowning in papers.

You have overburdened your argument with ostentatious erudition.

I feel incompetent to perform duties... which have been so unexpectedly thrown upon me.

I keep waiting for things to get back down to whelming, but they stay at overwhelming.

It's hard for the donkeys to win the race if they're going to carry the elephants on their backs.

Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

You know what it's like having five kids? Imagine you're drowning. And someone hands you a baby.

Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and... the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.

I find a lot of input from other people very stressful.

I'm a terrible person for carrying things around. I carry everything around with me, it's like my home.

What a circus act we women perform every day of our lives. Look at us. We run a tightrope daily, balancing a pile of books on the head. Baby-carriage, parasol, kitchen chair, still under control. Steady now! This is not the life of simplicity but the life of multiplicity that the wise men warn us of.

When are programmers happy? They're happy when they're not underutilized - when they're not bored - and also when they're not overburdened with inappropriate specifications or meaningless bureaucracies. In other words, programmers are happiest when they're working efficiently. This is a general preference in creative work.

Everybody assumes I know everything, so they send me these notes sometimes, and I don't know what they're talking about.

This federal welfare system is large, fragmented, and growing in cost. This system may have started out with good intentions, but it has become a confusing maze of programs that are overlapping, duplicative, poorly coordinated and difficult to administer.