Our Task Quotes

108 quotes by 82 authors

It is not our task to secure the triumph of truth, but merely to fight on its behalf. — Blaise Pascal
On 'The Simpsons,' I will say that we definitely like to comment on what's going on in the world, and we try to be funny.… — Matt Groening
Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its… — Albert Einstein
The fact that our task is exactly commensurate with our life gives it the appearance of being infinite. — Franz Kafka
Our task, your task... is to try to connect the dots before something happens. People say, 'Well, where's the smoking gun?' Well, we don't want… — Donald Rumsfeld
Our task is not to rediscover nature but to remake it. — Raoul Vaneigem
A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts… — Albert Einstein
We all carry within us places of exile, our crimes, our ravages. Our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to… — Albert Camus
we are continually overflowing toward those who preceded us, toward our origin, and toward those who seemingly come after us. ... It is our task… — Rainer Maria Rilke
...left to ourselves we lapse into a kind of collusion with entrophy, acquiescing in the general belief that things may be getting worse but that… — N. T. Wright
Our task is to become our best selves. One of God's greatest gifts to us is the joy of trying again, for no failure ever… — Thomas S. Monson
Present global culture is a kind of arrogant newcomer. It arrives on the planetary stage following four and a half billion years of other acts,… — Carl Sagan
We think we can make honey without sharing in the fate of bees, but we are in truth nothing but poor bees, destined to accomplish… — Muriel Barbery
It is our task, both in science and in society at large, to prove the conventional wisdom wrong and to make our unpredictable dreams come… — Freeman Dyson
But, my dear, so few things are fulfilled: what are most lives but a series of incompleted episodes? 'We work in the dark, we do… — Truman Capote
We're only passers-by, and all you can do is love what you have in your life. A person has to fight the meanness that sometimes… — Jane Hamilton
Our task is to widen our circle of compassion to include all living beings and all of nature — Albert Einstein
Our task is to take this earth so deeply and wholly into ourselves that it will resurrect within our being. — Rainer Maria Rilke
Attention, must be devoted principally to raising the workers to the level of revolutionaries; it is not our task to descend to the level of… — Vladimir Lenin
Our task is not to leave a record of what happened on this date for those who will inherit the Earth; history will take care… — Paulo Coelho

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