Task Quotes

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Through me you pass into the city of woe: Through me you pass into eternal pain: Through me among the people lost for aye. Justice… — Dante Alighieri
How teach again, however, what has been taught correctly and incorrectly learned a thousand thousand times, throughout the millenniums of mankind's prudent folly? That is… — Joseph Campbell
The greatest humanistic and historical task of the oppressed: to liberate themselves... — Paulo Freire
That perhaps is your task--to find the relation between things that seem incompatible yet have a mysterious affinity, to absorb every experience that comes your… — Virginia Woolf
When we traded homemaking for careers, we were implicitly promised economic independence and worldly influence. But a devil of a bargain it has turned out… — Barbara Kingsolver
The basic project of art is always to make the world whole and comprehensible, to restore it to us in all its glory and its… — Robert Hughes
The theologian may indulge the pleasing task of describing Religion as she descended from Heaven, arrayed in her native purity. A more melancholy duty is… — Edward Gibbon
I don't know whether the universe, with its countless galaxies, stars and planets, has a deeper meaning or not, but at the very least, it… — Dalai Lama
My task which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel â€”… — Joseph Conrad
A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
For it is the bitter grief of theology and its blessed task, too, always to have to seek (because it does not clearly have present… — Karl Rahner
I love this world," he added. "That is what rules my life. When I die, I want to have done all in my power to… — Charles de Lint
Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future - and also because we live as if our… — Albert Camus
The task of the right eye is to peer into the telescope, while the left eye peers into the microscope. — Leonora Carrington
One must see in every human being only that which is worthy of praise. When this is done, one can be a friend to the… — Abdu'l-BahÃ¡
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
When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn't acting. It's following instructions. Anyone with the physical qualifications can do… — James Dean
Contemplating the task ahead would not make it easier or the water warmer. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become… — Og Mandino
Why do cats sleep so much? Perhaps they've been trusted with some major cosmic task, an essential law of physics - such as: if there… — Kate Atkinson

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