Arduous Tasks Quotes

#1. In transforming backward agricultural China into an advanced industrialized country, we are confronted with arduous tasks and our experience is far from adequate. So we must be good at learning.

Mao Zedong

#2. The history of a movement, the history of a nation, the history of a race is the guide-post of that movement's destiny, that nation's destiny, that race's destiny.

Marcus Garvey

#3. "I don't know whether you are a saint or a fool" said my lawyer. I replied "Is there a difference?"

Frank Lloyd Wright

#4. Language is present in a piece of work like the sea in a single drop.

Kato Lomb

#5. I cannot bring myself to judge those who are defending their lands against an immoral violent foreign invader. The fact that the immoral violent foreign invader happens to be the U.S. government does not alter my view.

Dave Champion

#6. How was I ever going to seduce Frank, make him fall in love with me, if I was brunet? (Vincent)

Nicole Castle

#7. Americans are rightly concerned about the security and the integrity of the nation's borders because the system is broken. Some are concerned about the possibility of terrorists crossing our borders and coming into our cities.

Chris Cannon

#8. Gravity is the root of lightness;

Lao-Tzu

#9. It sounds simple, of course, but personally I can think of no more mentally arduous task than making music.

George Gershwin

#10. It must be remembered that the purpose of education is not to fill the minds of students with facts ... it is to teach them to think.

Robert M. Hutchins

#11. One inconvenience ... may attend bold and arduous attempts: frequent failure may discourage. This evil, however, is not more pernicious than the slow proficiency which is the natural consequence of too easy tasks.

Joshua Reynolds

#12. It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and not a very arduous task to astonish them; but essentially to benefit and to improve them is a work fraught with difficulty, and teeming with danger.

Charles Caleb Colton

#13. I don't want to hope anymore. I don't think we should hope anymore. We hoped enough. Now we have to do. We all have to do now.

Will.i.am

#14. I had a dog named Jesus once. I crucified him, but he didn't come back to life. Before he died, he told me what to do to the people in the brick house. Off went their heads.

Robert McCammon

#15. Former pleasures meant nothing to me anymore. Life was a series of tasks to be endured, and even the simplest ones were painfully arduous. It took everything I could muster to cook a meal, wash the dishes, or do the laundry. My income was virtually nonexistent. My occupation was therapy.

Rachel Reiland