Assigned Quotes
215 quotes by 195 authors
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I was assigned to the heavy cruiser Chicago.
— Jack Adams
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Because thought has by now been perverted into the solving of assigned problems, even what is not assigned is processed like a problem.
— Theodor Adorno
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The Communist regime didn't consider this to be a shining moment in history and assigned no heroism to it. They classified it as merely an…
— Kathryn Bigelow
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As you get older it's more confusing. Suddenly, there's more pressure to fit in to your assigned gender.
— Chaz Bono
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The case of the Seminoles constitutes at present the only exception to the successful efforts of the Government to remove the Indians to the homes…
— Martin Van Buren
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I was the first Navy, Marine or Air Force person who had been an astronaut to return back to the Air Force. I had certain…
— Buzz Aldrin
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My main point here is that if you are the child of God and God is a part of you, the in your imagination God…
— John Henrik Clarke
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Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our…
— Grover Cleveland
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Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man-yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of time assigned to…
— Marcus Aurelius
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That Americans are entitled to freedom is incontestable on every rational principle. All men have one common original: they participate in one common nature, and…
— Alexander Hamilton
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When the general is weak and without authority; when his orders are not clear and distinct; when there are no fixed duties assigned to officers…
— Sun Tzu
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You are very fortunate to be assigned to duty at Fortress Monroe on Chesapeake Bay; it is just the season for soft shelled crabs, and…
— Winfield Scott
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During the time I have had WACs under my command, they have met every test and task assigned to them...their contributions in efficiency, skill, spirit,…
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Always you have been told that work is a curse and labor a misfortune. But I say to you that when you work you fulfill…
— Khalil Gibran
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Woman does not possess the image of God in herself but only when taken together with the male who is her head, so that the…
— Saint Augustine
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You are the vibrational writers of the script of your life, and everyone else in the Universe is playing the part that you have assigned…
— Esther Hicks
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In that memorable year, 1822: Oersted, a Danish physicist, held in his hands a piece of copper wire, joined by its extremities to the two…
— Louis Pasteur
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Saudi Arabian oil production is at or very near its peak sustainable volume (if it did not, in fact peak almost 25 years ago), and…
— Matthew Simmons
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With respect to those points, on which the declaration of Scripture is positive and decisive, as, for instance, in asserting the low antiquity of the…
— William Buckland
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Plenty of mathematicians, Hardy knew, could follow a step-by-step discursus unflaggingly-yet counted for nothing beside Ramanujan. Years later, he would contrive an informal scale of…
— Robert Kanigel
Who Wrote These Assigned Quotes
195 authors contributed a total of 215 Assigned Quotes, led by these top contributors: