397 Quotes About Tasks

I have not yet learned to use our television DVR. One of the points of marriage is that you split labor. In the olden days that meant one hunted and one gathered; now it means one knows where the tea-towels are kept and the other knows how to program the DVR, for why should we both have to know?

God made us for relationships before he made us for tasks.

Jean Paul Sartre says in "No Exit" that hell is other people. Well, our task in life is to make it heaven. Or at least earth.

Deciding whether to trust or credit a person is always an uncertain task.

We need innovation in education and dedication to the task before us.

The difficulties of conducting espionage against the Soviet Union in the Soviet Union were such that historically the Agency had backed away from the task.

The virtue as the art consecrates itself constantly to what's difficult to do, and the harder the task, the shinier the success.

Every generation must recognize and embrace the task it is peculiarly designed by history and by providence to perform.

The Electric Monk was a labour-saving device, like a dishwasher or a video recorder... Electric Monks believed things for you, thus saving you what was becoming an increasingly onerous task, that of believing all the things the world expected you to believe.