Routine is supposed to be the great deadener of souls; how much worse is the half-completed task, the broken round, the unfulfilled routine?
To wipe all tears from off all faces is a task too hard for mortals; but to alleviate misfortunes is often within the most limited power: yet the opportunities which every day affords of relieving the most wretched of human beings are overlooked and neglected with equal disregard of policy and goodness.
No matter what anyone says or does, my task is to be emerald, my color undiminished.
The supreme task is to organize and unite people so that their anger becomes a transforming force.
As difficult as it is for a writer to find a publisher-admittedly a daunting task-it is twice as difficult for a publisher to sort through the chaff, select the wheat, and profitably publish a worthy list.
I know that I have found fulfillment. I have an object in life, a task. . . a passion.
Today we are inundated with such an immense flood of printed matter that the value of individual work has depreciated, for our harassed contemporaries simply cannot take everything that is printed today. It is the typographer's task to divide up and organize and interpret this mass of printed matter in such a way that the reader will have a good chance of finding what is of interest to him.
I prefer to concentrate on my task of leading Europe to the success that our citizens expect. We have to look forwards now because what is at stake is what makes Europe Europe.
We are learning to do a great many clever things. The next great task will be to learn not to do them.
Deciding whether to trust or credit a person is always an uncertain task.
Aiming for the marathon is a task of sorts which can include terrific highs and lows.
Grades dilute the pleasure that a student experiences on successfully completing a task.
Passions weaken, but habits strengthen, with age, and it is the great task of youth to set the current of habit and to form the tastes which are most productive of happiness in life.
It is art's task to make manifest the contradictions of Being
Thought may well be ever ranging, And opinion ever changing, Task-work be, though ill begun, Dealt with by experience better; By the law and by the letter Duty done is duty done Do it, Time is on the wing!
Our task is not to tell the truth; we are opinion molders.
Were you hoping for a quest? A seemingly impossible task that you could relay to your queen afterward? Would you like to tell her that you found and slayed the dragon for love of her? -Queen Sorcha
By far the most common task for which the machines are used is writing - or word processing, as it's known to the same people who call journalism 'content.
Man's task is simple. He should cease letting his existence be a thoughtless accident.
When someone does a small task beautifully, their whole environment is affected by it.
