(419 quotes found)
“Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day”
Simone de Beauvoir
“Anybody can write the first line of a poem, but is a very difficult task to make the second line rhyme with the first”
Mark Twain
“Our common language is English. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking children learn this common language.”
William Bennett
“The Buddhas do but tell the way; it is for you to swelter at the task.”
Buddha
“The psychic task which a person can and must set for himself is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.”
Erich Fromm
“Government is inherently incompetent, and no matter what task it is assigned, it will do it in the most expensive and inefficient way possible.”
Charley Reese
“The secret of life is to have a task, something you devote your entire life to, something you bring everything to, every minute of the day for the rest of your life. And the most important thing is, it must be something you cannot possibly do.”
Henry Moore
“There is nothing so fatal to character as half-finished tasks”
David Lloyd George
“The national task that had been incumbent upon me for 18 years is hereby confirmed.”
Charles de Gaulle
“The formation of character in young people is educationally a different task from and a prior task to, the discussion of the great, difficult ethical controversies of the day.”
