#task

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

#fantasy world #find #great #illusion #life

I've appointed a task force to take a fresh look at the color-code system and whether we should retain it, change it or scrap it. ↗

— Janet Napolitano

#change #force #fresh #fresh look #i

But part of the enjoyment I take in it is finding the most efficient way to do it, which doesn't mean the corrections aren't made. I like to have a feeling of the whole task before I start, even if it changes. ↗

— Bruce Nauman

#changes #corrections #efficient #efficient way #enjoyment

The first moments of sleep are an image of death; a hazy torpor grips our thoughts and it becomes impossible for us to determine the exact instant when the "I," under another form, continues the task of existence. ↗

— Gerard De Nerval

#becomes #continues #death #determine #exact

I realize that much will be asked of me, yet I am resolved to accept it as a great and splendid task. ↗

— Beatrix, Queen of the Netherlands

#am #asked #great #i #i am

The death of Mrs. Lincoln was a serious loss to her husband and children. Abraham's sister Sarah was only eleven years old, and the tasks and cares of the little household were altogether too heavy for her years and experience. ↗

— John George Nicolay

#altogether #cares #children #death #eleven

I enter my studio at 9 a.m. I have lunch here, I return right away to my work and I go out to dinner at 8 p.m. My daily tasks vary very much. ↗

— Oscar Niemeyer

#daily #dinner #enter #go #here

The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard! ↗

— Manuel Puig

#create #hard #her #his #language

I sit on the Drug Policy Subcommittee of the United States Congress. I'm on the speaker's task force. This is something people would rather turn away from and not face, but in fact it is possibly the greatest threat we face. ↗

— Doug Ose

#congress #face #fact #force #greatest

I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement. ↗

— Ovid

#arduous #attempt #difficult #i #task