121 Quotes About Assigned

We had subtle differences, not intentional discrimination of any kind, but subtle differences in the way we assigned people.

I sort of half read Thomas Hardy's 'The Mayor of Casterbridge.' It was assigned in 10th grade, and I just couldn't get into it. About seven years later, I rediscovered Hardy and consumed four of his novels in a row.

Something happened that changed the priority assigned to the job search. On the morning of December 11, 1997, Judge Susan Webber Wright ordered President Clinton to provide information regarding any state or federal employee with whom he had, proposed, or sought sexual relations. To keep Ms. Lewinsky satisfied was now of critical importance.

When I found out what ship I had been assigned to, I immediately went to the ship's website and researched it.

They decide by drawing a marble from a leather bottle until they've all been assigned an opinion. That assures a random, even distribution of the workload for the judges. It's an important practice because it takes away the notion that opinions could be assigned for any other reason.

Women are being assigned to units that are supposed to be all male, that are required to be all male. That law is being ignored.

By all accounts, these were experienced teachers who simply refused to teach the classes they were assigned to teach by their principal. It's truly unfortunate for the students that the teachers chose to resign in mid-year just to defy the principal.

My passion for that recovery began when I was in grad school. I was assigned to read the women poets that Emily Dickinson read and I was hooked. I began obsessively reading 19th-century novels by women. There was a richness, humor and a detailed portrayal of the plight of women in 19th-century America. It became a cause for me to bring the possibility of teaching these writers at the college level to the forefront.

It's hard to keep them interested. They want to be more active. They like to read different things than are assigned to them in school. They might need role models for reading.