Top 38 Quotes About Doing Errands
#1. When I do a movie, that's just a couple months out of my year and out of my life. All the other months I'm just at home, running around doing errands with my mom and going to sleepovers. I feel like I have that side of my life, and then I also do the films - which is just sort of a plus.
Elle Fanning
#2. Repining is of no use, ma'am," said Ralph. "Of all the fruitless errands, sending a tear to look after a day that is gone, is the most fruitless.
Charles Dickens
#3. Why read the Book of Mormon? Because angels do not come on trivial errands.
Hugh Nibley
#4. but that is the way of things, with cities as with life, for one moment we are pottering about our errands as usual and the next we are dying, and our eternally impending ending does not put a stop to our transient beginnings and middles until the instant when it does. Saeed
Mohsin Hamid
#5. While running simple errands I often became hopelessly confused in the maze of crowded, filthy streets that began twenty paces beyond the north gate of the bridge, and as I limped back to my shelves of books I would feel as if I were returning from exile.
Ross King
#7. All houses wherein men have lived and died / Are haunted houses. Through the open doors / The harmless phantoms on their errands glide, / With feet that make no sound upon the floors.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#8. I seldom made an errand to God for another but I got something for myself.
Samuel Rutherford
#9. The privilege and pleasure That we treasure beyond measure Is to run on little errands for the Ministers of State.
W.S. Gilbert
#10. The strategy of buying what's in favor is a fool's errand, ensuring long-term underperformance. Only by standing against the prevailing winds - selectively, but resolutely - can an investor prosper over time. But for a while, a value investor typically underperforms.
Seth Klarman
#11. ...So when the weather wasn't too overbearingly hot he tucked her arm in the crook of his elbow, and they walked about town, running errands and asking questions.
And falling in love
Julia Quinn
#12. Women in particular need to keep an eye on their physical and mental health, because if we're scurrying to and from appointments and errands, we don't have a lot of time to take care of ourselves. We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own 'to do' list.
Michelle Obama
#13. I love being home, reading the paper in the morning and having a cup of coffee, doing laundry, going grocery shopping and running daily errands. For me, it's important to have that balance in my life.
Tristan Prettyman
#14. It was either the wind or the spirit of the house itself, briefly unsettled by our nocturnal absence but to old to be surprised by the errands born from the gap between what we can imagine and what we can in fact create.
Michael Cunningham
#15. It required an enormous amount of energy and time just to do errands like getting groceries. She was always sweaty after she got groceries.
Stephanie Clifford
#16. It's our mortality that terrifies us, because what we're really seeking is immortality - that is, after all, a fool's errand.
Roger Caras
#17. I had no idea what anyone would ever need a demon for.Errands? General evil tasks that needed doing around the house?
Rachel Hawkins
#18. Oh please," Scout said."Don't take that tone with me. You know you'd love to have a minion. Someone at your beck and call. Someone to do your bidding. How many times have you said to yourself," Self, I need a unicorn to run errands and such?
Chloe Neill
#19. One of the things I like best about animals in the wild is that they're always off on some errand. They have appointments to keep. It's only we humans who wonder what we're here for.
Diane Ackerman
#20. - What ... what are you doing here? I thought you had to run some
errands.
- And let an opportunity like this slip by? No chance. Everything in
the world, except you, can wait 'til tomorrow.
J.M. Colail
#21. It had been so long abandoned that the rats scurrying on their errands spared me no more than occasional glances of annoyance.
H.P. Lovecraft
#22. A thing cannot be delivered enough times:
this is the rule of dogs for whom there are no fool's errands.
To loop out and come back is good all alone.
It's gravy to carry a ball or a bone.
Kay Ryan
#24. I really enjoy not getting in a car and running errands on bikes.
Stone Gossard
#25. I grew up in the Bronx. I used to remember going to all these fancy stores in Manhattan to run errands or whatever, and I felt intimidated, like they did not talk to me because I was from the Bronx. I never want anyone to be intimidated by fashion. Fashion is fun or, at least, should be.
Mickey Drexler
#26. Of all the errands life seems to be running, of all the mysteries that enchant us, love is my favorite
Diane Ackerman
#27. Once you learn the basic rules of good nutrition, you'll realize it's not so complicated. It doesn't matter if you're running errands or 13 miles, you need enough fuel to last all day. Proper nutrition is the difference between feeling exhausted and getting the most out of a workout.
Summer Sanders
#28. When you're on the Lord's errand, you're entitled to the Lord's blessings.
Thomas S. Monson
#29. Unless you are rich, and can con vales center in a sanatorium estate (where visitors came down a tiered, oceanside lawn to found you ato your easel) you have to keep going when you're depressed. That means phone calls, appointments errands, holidays, family, friends, and colleagues.
Virginia Heffernan
#30. Not another flag has such an errand, carrying everywhere, the world around, such hope for freedom such glorious tidings.
Henry Ward Beecher
#31. She always saw through him, as if he were just another window. She always felt that she knew everything about him that could be known. Not that he was simple, but that he was knowable, like a list of errands, like an encyclopedia.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#32. Send a wise man on an errand, and say nothing unto him.
[Send a wise man on an errand, and say nothing to him.]
George Herbert
#33. I've always shrunk from usurping the functions of Providence, and when I have to exercise them I decidedly prefer that it shouldn't be on an errand of destruction.
Edith Wharton
#34. Donald Trump insisted yesterday that he is not racist, because one time an African-American won Apprentice. Because nothing says 'not racist' like making a black man run your errands.
Conan O'Brien
#35. I'm super lucky because I come home and I don't have to run errands and clean the house and do all that.
Vanessa Paradis
#36. I don't have time for all the relations and courting and wooing bullshit," I said. "I'm a wizard. I have quests."
"Uh, you're an apprentice," Gary said. "And you're sent on errands.
T.J. Klune
#37. In a life full of work, family, civic responsibilities, commutes and errands, your training runs offer fertile opportunity to lean inward and listen.
Gina Greenlee
#38. I'm sure there are people who are content to run errands and report for work on time and wait, with an enlivening eagerness, for the lunch bell. I wish them well. They have, however, never been the subjects of novels, and in all likelihood, will never be.
Michael Cunningham
