If you pay off your mortgage before retirement, you take a huge financial load off your shoulders. You also become eligible to take out a reverse mortgage once you turn 62.
People love talking about when they were young and heard Honky Tonk Women for the first time. It’s quite a heavy load to carry on your shoulders, the memories of so many people.
I had two surgeries during the early part of 2012, and I was advised to restrict my work load.
We would be driving down the street in a place like Zaire, now the Democratic Republic of Congo, and started to see, my gosh, the only people that have shoes are men. Why does that woman have a baby in her belly and one on her back, and she’s carrying a huge load of bananas? You start to ask these questions.
An ex-boyfriend of mine is living with HIV. He has an undetectable viral load so I know first-hand how this can affect people in a serodiscordant couple – which is where one partner is HIV-negative and one is HIV-positive.
The ’80s don’t seem to have gone away. Most weekends in the summer we’re off doing a festival in front of 10,000 or 15,000 people with a load of other ’80s acts. It was just such a great era for music, for individuals and characters. It just had a spirit.
If a student believes that taking too many exams is hard or skipping advanced courses for a lighter load is a better deal, just wait until he or she goes to college and needs to prepare for finals or has to figure out complex work problems in a stressful environment.
You can’t put a load of rockstars up on a stage and expect to wipe out global poverty. That’s ludicrous.
I sometimes wonder how we’re short of cod. There’s gonna be a load deep down that are hiding. But it’s a good reason to put the price up, and it means a load of people will have haddock. They should tell people they’re running out of all sorts. Make ’em panic a bit.
Prosecutors frequently overcharge, load up charges on individual defendants, knowing that three strikes laws and harsh mandatory minimum sentences will force people to plea bargain and essentially convict themselves because they’re terrified of doing a life sentence for a relatively minor crime.
When you get your viral load down to zero, you reduce the risk of transmission of HIV by 90 percent.
I love working for myself. I’ve grown to dislike the Hollywood machine. Too much bull, disappointment, and quite frankly, untalented, mindless, and hugely disrespectful people involved in the process. I’ll take carrying the load on my back, all the way up Everest if needed, to be able to steer away from it.
Like in great painting and architecture, in couture, to make clothes you must eliminate, eliminate, eliminate to obtain the true sense of a line. You see, the more you add, the more you load on, the more it’s mad. You must try to have just the silhouette, which is an intelligence in clothes.
Your genetics load the gun. Your lifestyle pulls the trigger.
Investing in renter’s insurance is hugely worthwhile. It protects you from a whole load of financial pitfalls around your home. Your home should be the center of your sense of security – not the cause of you losing financial security.
My dad would load me into the car under a pile of blankets in the middle of the night so I could sleep the whole way and be on the mountain when it opened.
I just look at like, if I’m doing 200 plus dates a year on the road with Raw or SmackDown, or I’m doing a manageable load of 30 to 50 matches with NXT – I can do four years of that in the time that I do one year on Raw or SmackDown.
As an actor, your focus is very finite. All you’re worried about is your character and what you have to do, what your goals are in this scene and in this piece of material. Whereas, as the director, everything is your responsibility. I enjoy carrying the load like that and being the responsible party.
I love jewellery and stuff, so when I first got signed, I spent it on a load of bling.
I know in the back of my head I have a Grand Slam win, which definitely takes a lot off of me, a big load off.
Sympathy is two hearts tugging at one load.
If one tends to be a humorous person and you have a sense of humor the rest of your life then you can certainly lighten the load, I think, by bringing that to your trials and tribulations. It’s easy to have a sense of humor when everything is going well.
After high school, I attended the Virginia Military Institute and then Eastern Virginia Medical School – both great public schools that prepared me well for my career as a physician and didn’t saddle me with a load of debt.
I can design a collection in a day and I always do, cause I’ve always got a load of Italians on my back, moaning that it’s late.
Energy, health care and education are just three examples of areas in which information and information management are critically important. How are we using our energy? What appliances in homes or business are consuming the most energy? When do they consume it? Can the load be shifted? How efficient are these devices?
The whole ‘American Idol’ way of looking at things is the antithesis of what I grew up with. There are a whole lot of kids wanting to be famous now, whereas if I’d even mentioned that word to one of my teachers, I would have got into a whole load of trouble.
We all have burdens and we need to learn to carry each other’s burdens, lighten each other’s load.
About 100 things that your kid will do that will surprise you and break your heart and it will be a combination of fact based therapy, medically advised kinds of passages accompanied by celebrity anecdotes and just some funny stuff to lighten the load.
You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him to a heavy load.
I take a tremendous amount of punishment and abuse every weekend because every team serves at me. So I have to carry the offensive load. I’m hitting the ball all the time.
I used to play football with a load of lads, and I would be like a secret agent going out with a hat on so they wouldn’t see my hair in a bun.
In all my work, I try to say – ‘You may be given a load of sour lemons, why not try to make a dozen lemon meringue pies?’
Just because my song was being played on the radio didn’t mean I had a load of money. You don’t get royalties overnight.
Nurturing and spending time and effort on what’s happening underneath our exteriors is much more lucrative than spending a lifetime and shed load of money on your outside.
During the offseason, when you don’t have the worries and the grind of the games and the wear and tear of your body, you can really attack the training element a lot harder. More load on your body, more stress – whether that be through running or in the weight room with the lifting program that you’re doing at the time.
Few words in any language carry such a load of meaning as ‘honor.’ It is an old word, unchanged even in its spelling from classical Latin to modern English. Spoken or written, it does not seem to require much explanation; most people think they know what it means.
Because comedy is cheap to put on: if you’ve got a play or an opera, there’s a whole load of people and a set, but comedy is just one man or woman. And because TV has learned to love comics – there’s so many more around now than when I started out.
Sometimes feeling overwhelmed is part of what it means to be a Christian. You can’t bear somebody else’s burden unless you are taking something of their load and it’s weighing you down a little bit.
That’s what’s great about the horror genre is that you’re getting a load of people together in the cinema at the same place and the same time, having them all experience extreme fear and come out alive at the end. It’s an uplifting experience, and there’s a sense of elation.
People choose to shut themselves off and build a load of defense mechanisms and not let anybody in because it’s easier that way. You don’t get hurt, and there’s less risk involved if you build this hard shell.
Well that’s probably what’ll end up happening: a load of really good musicians who can’t afford to be in bands, who have to have day jobs, you know what I mean? And then that’s when you start losing a lot of the live touring bands.
I spent my whole life helping my mother carry around her psychic trunks like a bitter bellhop. So a great load was lifted when she died, and my life was much easier.
The jury could get the case as early as next week, but the defense says they just want to introduce one last-minute load of crap.
We would load up the yellow Cutlass Supreme station wagon and pick blackberries during blackberry season or spring onions during spring onion season. For us, food was part of the fabric of our day.
Admire a small ship, but put your freight in a large one; for the larger the load, the greater will be the profit upon profit.
The world is constantly in a race to the top, in terms of there’s a limited amount of capital and you’ve got to figure where it’s going. And if your currency is weakening, that means you’re paying a load.
If you go away on location for three months and your wife stays at home, you’ve made a whole new load of friends and she’s made a whole new load of friends and you get home and you’re kind of strangers.
And I love working, that’s my life. I’m a lonely person anyway. I don’t like being around a load of people so I can work on myself and think.
I’m so fortunate that I’ve chosen the right career path. Yes, perhaps I could have been out there with my own restaurant earning a load more dosh, but television has been good to me.
