Assigned Quotes
215 quotes by 195 authors
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No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Saviour, if it is just and if the intention is purely for…
— Christopher Columbus
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Only you can impact the world in the way that God uniquely assigned to you.
— Rich Nathan
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My walk is a public one. My business is in the world, and I must mix in the assemblies of men or quit the post…
— William Wilberforce
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What we are assigned to bear is in a sense a measure of our stature.
— Peter De Vries
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I always concentrated on doing the very best that I could in the job and the duties that I was assigned.
— Hugh Shelton
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As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make a turning point of it,…
— Saul Bellow
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I was too impatient to work at the usual duties assigned women on newspapers.
— Nellie Bly
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The strongest feelings assigned to the conscience are not moral feelings at all; they express merely physical antipathies.
— George Santayana
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I was assigned to the Waffen-SS but was never involved in any crime. Besides, I always felt the need to write about my experiences in…
— Gunter Grass
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Nothing is intrinsically valuable; the value of everything is attributed to it, assigned to it from outside the thing itself, by people.
— John Barth
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Not that I want the current president killed. I will, for the record and for the FBI agent assigned to read this and make sure…
— Sarah Vowell
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On Mondays and Fridays in early May, nearly 18,000 children-the equivalent of all the elementary students in suburban Glencoe, Wilmette, Glenview, Kenilworth, Winnetka, Deerfield, Highland…
— Jonathan Kozol
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Neither the true nor the false roots are always real; sometimes they are imaginary; that is, while we can always imagine as many roots for…
— Rene Descartes
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All the species recognized by Botanists came forth from the Almighty Creator's hand, and the number of these is now and always will be exactly…
— Carl Linnaeus
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Therefore, the causes assigned to natural effects of the same kind must be, so far as possible, the same.
— Isaac Newton
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At great cost to Himself, God has made it possible for each of us to live with Him eternally. Those who reject God's offer of…
— Billy Graham
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Capitalism arose and took off its pajamas. Another day, another dollar. Each man is valued at what he will bring in the marketplace. Meaning has…
— Donald Barthelme
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Perhaps nothing is so depressing an index of the inhumanity of the male-supremacist mentality as the fact that the more genial human traits are assigned…
— Kate Millett
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When the band begins to get a name for themselves, and the writers get assigned to bands, they'll hit somebody who just doesn't like that…
— Kim Deal
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They know your name, address, telephone number, credit card numbers, who ELSE is driving the car "for insurance", ... your driver's license number. In the…
— Arthur Miller
Who Wrote These Assigned Quotes
195 authors contributed a total of 215 Assigned Quotes, led by these top contributors: