Task Quotes

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The statesman's task is to hear God's footsteps marching through history, and to try and catch on to His coattails as He marches past. — Otto von Bismarck
You have a pet theory, one you have been turning over for years, that life itself is a kind of Rube Goldberg device, an extremely… — Kevin Brockmeier
Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art--- Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like nature's… — John Keats
From all of us Scarborough girls, greetings and thanks. This task required two, working together, trusting each other. It required the "us," not the "I."… — Nancy Werlin
According to Shiva, life is in the end about fixing holes. Shiva didn't speak in metaphors. fixing holes is precisely what he did. Still, it's… — Abraham Verghese
Philosophy and science have not always been friendly toward the idea of God, the reason being they are dedicated to the task of accounting for… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
His face set in grim determination, Richard slogged ahead, his fingers reaching up to touch the tooth under his shirt. Loneliness, deeper than he had… — Terry Goodkind
We must make the building of a free society once more an intellectual adventure, a deed of courage.... Unless we can make the philosophic foundations… — Friedrich August von Hayek
Of all the questions which can come before this nation, short of the actual preservation of its existence in a great war, there is none… — Theodore Roosevelt
From cradle to grave this problem of running order through chaos, direction through space, discipline through freedom, unity through multiplicity, has always been, and must… — Henry Adams
Motherhood is a Sisyphean task. You finish sewing one seam shut, and another rips open. I have come to believe that this life I'm wearing… — Jodi Picoult
For every one pupil who needs to be guarded against a weak excess of sensibility there are three who need to be awakened from the… — C.S. Lewis
It was very bad if the council had resorted to recruiting men. By tradition men were our last line of defence, their physical strength bent… — N.K. Jemisin
Asmodeus! You donâ€™t see her, do you hear me? (Jericho) Completely blind, Minor Master. Hearing is intact. Is there anyone here besides the two of… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
It is always a much easier task to educate uneducated people than to re-educate the mis-educated. — Herbert M. Shelton
The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly. — Anton Chekhov
He leaned upon her as if there was no other support anywhere in the world, and she held him as if she would undertake no… — Sharon Shinn
Though opposition is a hopeless task, acquiescence would be worse. — Thomas M. Disch
The Master made it his task to destroy systematically every doctrine, every belief, every concept of the divine, for these things, which were originally intended… — Anthony de Mello
Norah watched him, serious and utterly absorbed in his task, overcome by the simple fact of his existence. — Kim Edwards

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