Top 100 Assignment Quotes
#1. Too many people think that finding the reason God placed us here on earth will come in one assignment with a big title and complete job description. I believe that discovering our purpose will unfold slowly, like a seed planted deep in the ground.
Lysa TerKeurst
#2. Do Not Attempt To Alter Your Assignment. Just do it.
Mike Murdock
#3. Sorry, are you telling me that your demon-slaying buddies need to be driven to their next assignment with the forces of darkness by my mom?
Cassandra Clare
#4. Your assignment of confidence limits each of the evidences, which allows for building a cumulative case for God's existence.
Russell Stannard
#5. On graduating from school, a studious young man who would withstand the tedium and monotony of his duties has no choice but to lose himself in some branch of science or literature completely irrelevant to his assignment.
Charles-Augustin De Coulomb
#6. For some time I have been disturbed by the way the CIA has been diverted from its original assignment. It has become an operational and at times a policy making arm of the government.
Harry S. Truman
#7. Your help comes from the Lord God who made heaven, earth and you! Grab your mission; that's your father's assignment for you! No one can stop you from attaining success with the assignment your father gave you to do!
Israelmore Ayivor
#8. Fulfilling your destiny is like going on an errand assignment. You must run it to make it meaningful. You don't become who you should become when you remain passionlessly without taking actions.
Israelmore Ayivor
#9. When I was a nurse my favourite assignment was the anorexic ward. I sometimes ate as many as seventeen dinners
Jo Brand
#10. Never refuse an assignment except when there is a conflict of interest, a potential of danger to you or your family, or you hold a strongly biased attitude about the subject under focus.
Jessica Savitch
#11. I had a clear vision: if I take up an assignment, I'll do full justice to it; otherwise I'll walk away.
Kiran Bedi
#12. Our assignment is to show the people all the qualities of God
Sunday Adelaja
#13. Each life is a kind of assignment, I believe," Eliza told her. "You're given this one assigned slot each time you come to earth, this little square of experience to work through. So even if your life has been troubled, I believe, it's what you're meant to deal with on this particular go-round.
Anne Tyler
#14. Our assignment has never been about what we can do for God, but what can God do through us.
Bill Johnson
#15. He'd been given an assignment to write about teen beauty pageants [ ... ], which he'd accepted because he enjoyed blood sports as much as the next person.
David Baldacci
#16. Kelly was starting to have serious second thoughts about the whole assignment. Like all war correspondents, she supposed. Being on the ground was very different to sitting in the office anticipating being on the ground. Especially with the appearance of that red cloud.
Peter F. Hamilton
#17. When people give you a writing assignment, they're asking what you think. That's the very opposite of being an actor. When you're an actor, no one wants to hear what you think.
David Rakoff
#18. Is that what you were doing in my room?" he asks after a moment.
I sigh. Why am I telling him any of this? "Yes. I was on assignment."
"I was your assignment?"
"Yes."
He hesitates a moment, then grins. "That's kind of hot.
Rachel Morgan
#19. Our daily work can be a calling only if it is reconceived as God's assignment to serve others.
Timothy Keller
#20. Brandon's going to talk to a B-O-Y, and -"
"What?"
"That's your assignment tonight. You converse in public with a boy. You've heard of them, right? They're like girls, but with penises?
J.C. Lillis
#21. Your assignment,' he bellowed at Kelly, 'was to make a persuasive argument. Demanding to know whether detractors of your position are on crack is not arguing persuasively.
Meg Cabot
#22. Anyone graduating from medical school in 1966 had first to fulfill military service before launching a career. Fiercely opposed to the Vietnam War, I sought to avoid it through an assignment to the Public Health Service.
Harold E. Varmus
#23. Everyday, we have to ask God for our assignment, we must not assume we understand His plan but rather surrender to His will daily.
E'yen A. Gardner
#24. Don't make your job your permanent assignment. Rather, make your work your permanent assignment
Sunday Adelaja
#25. I would not have shied away from an assignment to sail a canoe around Cape Horn or to take charge of the government of Afghanistan.
Jan Valtin
#26. My assignment was exclusively in the research field, and my first published paper, On the Optimal Use of Winds for Flight Planning, was the outgrowth of that work.
Kenneth Joseph Arrow
#27. Every human being is been given some assignment on the earth
Sunday Adelaja
#28. Sometimes, we are unable to break free because we are held captive by divine assignment because in our problem God has given us a unique purpose.
Shannon L. Alder
#29. We divide the roles of mystic, doctor, therapist, artist, herbalist, naturalist, and storyteller into separate, often inimical professions. In most other societies, there was one word, one job assignment, for somebody who was all these things at once.
Martha N. Beck
#30. If you listen very carefully, you can hear the good fairy come in the night and leave our assignment for tomorrow.
Orson Scott Card
#31. Regardless of how or what anyone thinks about you it does not rob or cancel your assignment
J. Wilson
#32. Be faithful to God in your assignment and remember that in any case you will go through trials
Sunday Adelaja
#33. My paintings are about light, about the way things look in their environment and especially about how things look painted. Form, colour and space are at the whim of reality, their discovery and organization is the assignment of the realist painter.
Ralph Goings
#34. My assignment was in the communications office, where I typed out dispatches.
Jack Adams
#35. With each assignment, I weigh the looming possibility of being killed, and I chastise myself for allowing fear to hinder me. War photographers aren't supposed to get scared.
Lynsey Addario
#37. We should see our calling as our life's major assignment
Sunday Adelaja
#38. I am never driven. Every film I've made has been an assignment.
Alain Resnais
#39. It has been a privilege beyond belief for me to have represented the State of Louisiana in Congress and to have been given the blessed assignment of U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See.
Lindy Boggs
#40. My name is Marissia Pullawr. The White was my grandmother. You were my assignment. I was never a slave.
Brent Weeks
#41. The main expressed goal for oceanographers during International Geophysical Year, 1957/8, was to study "the use of ocean depths for the dumping of radioactive wastes." This wasn't a secret assignment, you understand, but a proud public boast. In
Bill Bryson
#42. The Bahamas has mangrove nurseries, coral reefs, shallow sea grass beds, and deep oceanic trenches - all perfect ecosystems for sharks. Photographing multiple shark species in exquisite water was the assignment I had dreamed about from the start.
Brian Skerry
#43. What's important is the preparation for adult life, and the training you'll receive in your Assignment.
Lois Lowry
#44. The deadlines are much, much longer with books. When I was a reporter, a lot of times I'd come in at 8:30 a.m., get an assignment right away, interview somebody, turn the story in by 9:30, and have the finished story in the paper that landed on my desk by noon.
Margaret Haddix
#45. Nothing is more pathetic than having a small character in a big assignment. Many of us don't want to give attention to our character, we just want the big assignment from God.
Henry Blackaby
#46. Schools while their dads are on company assignments, and then have to catch up with their Japanese grade level when their dads get transferred back. Only my dad wasn't on a company assignment, and he wasn't getting transferred
Ruth Ozeki
#48. Even as a child Gates had an obsessive personality and a compulsive need to be the best. "Any school assignment, be it playing a musical instrument or writing papers, whatever, he would do at any or all hours of the day".
James Wallace
#49. A season of suffering is a small assignment when compared to the reward. Rather than begrudge your problem, explore it. Ponder it. And most of all, use it. Use it to the glory of God.
Max Lucado
#50. The aim of every woman is to be truly integrated into the Corps. She is able and willing to undertake any assignment consonant with Marine Corps needs, and is proudest of all that she has no nickname. She is a "Marine."
Katherine Amelia Towle
#51. So who has more at stake? A young man trying to get laid with the least amount of white water before he ships off to his next assignment and has nothing but a memory of a nice month on the beach, or a family that desperately needs and wants old heartaches to disappear?
Roxanne St. Claire
#52. Assignment as Fish Hatchery Attendant along with words of praise for her childhood spent doing many volunteer hours there, and her obvious interest in the important
Anonymous
#53. I wrote small stories here and there, then bigger ones. Some were even written for money. I signed up for a writing class and snuck my first assignment on a yellow legal pad in a partner's office while he read through my memo.
Rachel Sklar
#54. History offers no evidence for the proposition that the assignment of women to military combat jobs is the way to win wars, improve combat readiness, or promote national security.
Phyllis Schlafly
#55. Back when I was on my first assignment as a seeker, I was way out in Arizona. Brought in this kid named Clarisse."
"Clarisse?"
"Sibling of yours," Hedge said. "Ares kid. Violent. Rude. Lots of potential.
Rick Riordan
#56. The sheep vs. goats analogy is presumptuous. I define the world in general to be the people who populate it without assignment of an either/or category in presumption of their final and ultimate choice as to Who and Whose Jesus is".
~R. Alan Woods [2012]
R. Alan Woods
#57. Of course they didn't give us this much, Sage. But I had to make sure I nailed my first assignment. Takes a lot of tries before you hit perfection." He paused to reconsider that. "Well, except for my parents. They got it on the first try.
Richelle Mead
#58. When you begin to see that this assignment of extreme virtue or evil to a person or object is what makes them an object of lust or hatred, the emotion built on that exaggeration backs off; we
Dalai Lama XIV
#59. So, there is one thing I wanted to ask you..." he smiles and laughs a little "...what gave you the idea to use yourself as a fire alarm to wake you assignment? Because that, my dear, was brilliant.
Trish Marie Dawson
#60. I realized that every lesson, conference, response, and assignment I taught must lead students away from me and toward their autonomy as literate people.
Donalyn Miller
#61. Do you realize what a special assignment you have here?
I just stared at her. Special assignment would me like interviewing Lady Gaga. This was just cruel and unusual torture.
Jenny B. Jones
#62. Our assignment was to topple this prudish, judgmental civilization. And it worked.
Timothy Leary
#63. Your assignment from God is not to change your husband, but to love, follow, assist, and minister to him.
Elizabeth George
#64. Royalty is my identity. Servanthood is my assignment. Intimacy with God is my life source.
Bill Johnson
#65. I was fortunate that I came out to the Valley in 1979, when I came out to go to Stanford Business School, and my very first assignment as a teaching assistant for an investments professor was to - he told me go down to this computer company in Cupertino called Apple.
Frank Quattrone
#66. You are here for a reason. There is nothing accidental about you. There is a specific purpose, assignment, and mission on earth that only you can fulfill. Never doubt your specialness.
Mandy Hale
#67. The Bible offers three metaphors that teach us God's view of life: Life is a test, life is a trust, and life is a temporary assignment.
Rick Warren
#68. I loved science, and when I discovered Buddhist meditative practices and martial arts, I was able to bridge those ways of knowing the world into my own unique way. From that grew the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program, which became my karmic assignment.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
#69. I have to make a dress out of recycled materials for my kid's preschool 'Project Runway'-like assignment. I'm currently fusing plastic bags.
Busy Philipps
#70. If we had directions, it wouldn't be life. It would be an assignment. Grunt work.
James Patterson
#71. I am pretty proud to be the Super Bowl correspondent for Inside Edition. It is the most coveted assignment, and the most watched event in our country - every year. The pomp and circumstance during Super Bowl week leading up to the game is just incredible.
Megan Alexander
#72. DAY 1 Put on the Whole Armor (Ephesians 6:11) Before each specific assignment
Stormie O'martian
#73. I think when you are an aspiring writer, you must write every day. It's not as though anybody will call you up on the phone and say, "I understand you are a very promising, aspiring writer and I'm going to give you this assignment." You have to create it yourself or it's never going to happen.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#74. A lot of screenwriters have a drawer of unsold scripts that they cut their teeth on. I don't have one. Everything I've written, after my first spec, I wrote on assignment. Everything I've written was work.
Jon Spaihts
#75. You are not saved for the sole purpose of going to heaven; you are saved to finish your assignment on earth
Myles Munroe
#76. During my first few weeks in Italy, all my Protestant synapses were zinging in distress, looking for a task. I wanted to take on pleasure like a homework assignment, or a giant science fair project.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#77. To be set aside is to be rejected.To be set apart is to be given an assignment that requires preparation.
Lysa TerKeurst
#78. Our real calling to be a compassionate Christian came when we stepped out of the waters of baptism ... We don't need a bishop's assignment to be kind. We don't need to sign up to be thoughtful. We don't need to be sustained by our wards to be sensitive.
Chieko N. Okazaki
#80. I just asked myself, what piece of that man's soul did he just chew off and swallow to get next week's assignment? You know, just to live, just to work as an artist, or to feed the family?
Paul Haggis
#81. I don't write songs for myself anymore. I only write songs on assignment. It's purely a business, but it is still so important to me emotionally.
Alan Menken
#82. Why should the arbitrary assignment of genital parts determine whether or not you want to be with a person?
David Levithan
#83. Okay, here is the problem," I said. "Assignment means schoolwork, and Hawaii means vacation. And children do not actually like to mix those two items.
Barbara Park
#84. Every assignment has a natural and supernatural aspect
Sunday Adelaja
#85. He began to see the situation from another angle. An assignment had been given him. Someone's life, a small set of lives had been placed in the palm of his hand. Maybe he would never have any more purpose than this: to accept the assignment gracefully, lovingly, and do the best he could with it.
Anne Tyler
#86. Life is a very important assignment. God will score us at the end.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#87. The sum of our relationship with God enables us to take the next step, climb the next mountain, and do the next part of our assignment.
Katy Kauffman
#88. Your assignment is to love everyone, accepting all that happens to you.
Thomas A Kempis
#89. My assignment is what every writer's assignment is: tell the truth of his own time.
Leslie Fiedler
#90. I never planned on falling for you. You were just an assignment. But it just sort of happened and now... There's not a single thing I would change about you. When you smile, my entire world stops. All I see is you. I need you.
Abi Ketner
#91. Redefining the role of the United States from enablers to keep the peace to enablers to keep the peace from peacekeepers is going to be an assignment.
George W. Bush
#92. We turned an anthem into an assignment, a poem into a job description.
Rachel Held Evans
#93. If it is your assignment to write copy for a product or service that you really don't have a feel for, then you have a great deal of studying to do to make sure you understand who your customer is and what motivates him or her.
Joseph Sugarman
#94. where she had dissected that poor frog. The homework assignment she had turned in on the eleventh of February surfaced in her mind as fresh as if she had completed it yesterday. "Four chambers," she whispered.
Charlie N. Holmberg
#95. If supernatural aspect of the assignment is lost then the natural aspect manifests
Sunday Adelaja
#96. When we submit to God's plans, we can trust our desires. Our assignment is found at the intersection of God's plan and our pleasures.
Max Lucado
#97. The assignment was to fall in love.
The details were up to you.
The second part was
to include in the poem certain words,
words drawn from a specific text
on another subject altogether.
Louise Gluck
#98. Every day is not just another assignment; it is a small, but contained voyage of discovery.
David Doubilet
#99. She was the only person in class who read her poem like it wasn't an assignment. She recited it like it was a living thing. Like something she was letting out. You couldn't look away from her as long as she was talking.
Rainbow Rowell
#100. Find the most puzzling kind of art you can think of, and then go out and try to approximate it with your camera. Take a photograph that corresponds to it. (Assignment to students.)
John Baldessari
