Quotes About Task

This was the time of the "flu" epidemic and the wards were filled and the halls too. Many of the nurses became ill and we were very short-handed. Every night before going off duty there were bodies to be wrapped in sheets and wheeled away to the morgue. When we came on duty in the morning, the night nurse was performing the same grim task.

To be asked by her to do something filled him with pleasurable strength, as if she called all his powers into play. He felt able to move heaven and earth, he said to himself. She was his enthusiasm.

Accomplishing the impossible means only the boss will add it to your regular duties.

People of the Philippines: I have returned. By the grace of Almighty God our forces stand again on Philippine soil—soil consecrated in the blood of our two peoples. We have come dedicated and committed to the task of destroying every vestige of enemy control over your daily lives, and of restoring upon a foundation of indestructible strength, the liberties of your people.

Trying to fulfill earthly desires was like carrying water to the sea; a never- ending task, and an ultimately useless one.

The task of evangelism, now that Christ has risen, is not so much to run around at night, poking our flashlights into corners and cellars. Rather, the task of evangelism is more like pulling back the curtains.

we always do project.

Oftentimes, we become so focused on completing a specific task that we forget what is really important: to prioritize our relationship with God, first of all, and then with those we love.

Art is the highest task and the proper metaphysical activity of this life.

As long as he was breathing, God's greatest task for him was not yet finished. His highest purpose in life was still unfulfilled. ... God still had plans for him.

Art's task is to save the soul of mankind.. anything less is a dithering while Rome burns.

However much I doubted the man's ability to accomplish the task he had set himself, I could not help admiring his faith and his industry.

Once you've got a task to do, it's better to do it than live with the fear of it.

perhaps you know that Ingeborg Bachmann poem from the last years of her life that begins "I lose my screams" dear Antigone, I take it as the task of the translator to forbid that you should ever lose your screams

It was a task more than a burden. Once you have actually carried a dead man you are happy enough to leave him down, let them put the box into the damn ground.

Archbishop Feofan, was appointed with the specific task of raising up the church

quoting an August 2005 speech by then president George W. Bush justifying staying the course in Iraq by saying, "We owe [the two thousand soldiers who had already died] something. We will finish the task that they gave their lives for."); Van Putten, Zeelenberg, and Van Dijk, "Who Throws Good Money after Bad?," 2010, 33 ("one of the most important reasons to continue the way in Iraq was to prevent acknowledging that soldiers who fell in battle died in vain").

From this task of ordered discrimination he had been thrown into the ruthless, cut-throat, rough-and-tumble of the Beast's Woman's Page.

Eighty years ago, Woodrow Wilson took America into the twentieth century with a challenge to make the world safe for democracy. As we enter the twenty-first century, our task is to make democracy safe for the world.

to mow the lawn.

The belief that the main task in life is obtaining freedom from the tyranny of 'social fictions'. Money is the most important social fiction; one escapes its tyranny by acquiring it.

el hombre libre encuentra que siempre lo acompaña una nueva visión que proyecta sobre toda tarea cotidiana la luz del amor.

To me, onions are the metaphor for kitchen drudgery. Cutting them is hard to do well, and they fight you the whole way.

I get asked, on a sort of daily basis, 'It's my wife's 30th birthday, can you set her a task?'