Errands famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Difficulties are just God's errands. If we are sent upon them, it is an evidence of His confidence. Therefore, let us be glad, be happy, for it is a way of being wise.
-- Ardeth Kapp -
Short-term market and economic prognostication is largely a fool’s errand, we invest according to a strategy that makes the need to rely on short-term market or economic assessments largely irrelevant.
-- Bill Ackman -
Riddle of destiny, who can show What thy short visit meant, or know What thy errand here below?
-- Charles Lamb -
Let the grand errand into America never be forgotten.
-- Ezra Stiles -
The way to elegancy of style is to employ your pen upon every errand; and the more trivial and dry it is, the more brains must be allowed for sauce.
-- Frances Osborne -
O ye dead Poets, who are living still Immortal in your verse, though life be fled, And ye, O living Poets, who are dead Though ye are living, if neglect can kill, Tell me if in the darkest hours of ill, With drops of anguish falling fast and red From the sharp crown of thorns upon your head, Ye were not glad your errand to fulfill?
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -
Difficulties are God's errands; and when we are sent upon them, we should esteem it a proof of God's confidence,
-- Henry Ward Beecher -
Words are the soul's ambassadors, who go / Abroad upon her errands to and fro.
-- James Howell -
I'm the last person who has any desire to instruct anybody in shame. That's no errand for me.
-- Jock Sturges -
Life was a fool's errand, carrying news to the worms.
-- Kylie Tennant -
It is impossible for us to fail when we do our best when we are on the Lord's errand.
-- M. Russell Ballard -
Until Christ is our treasure, any other motivation we have to suffer for him is a fool’s errand.
-- Matt Chandler -
I have been benefited by praying for others; for by making an errand to God for them I have gotten something for myself.
-- Samuel Rutherford -
I seldom made an errand to God for another but I got something for myself.
-- Samuel Rutherford -
O happy dogs of England, Bark well at errand boys, If you lived anywhere else, You would not be allowed to make such an infernal noise.
-- Stevie Smith -
I really enjoy not getting in a car and running errands on bikes.
-- Stone Gossard -
Success is completion. Success is being able to complete what we set out to do - each individual action, each specific step, each desired experience whether a big project or a very small errand.
-- Susan Collins -
Composers should write tunes that chauffeurs and errand boys can whistle.
-- Thomas Beecham -
When you’re on the Lord’s errand, you’re entitled to the Lord’s blessings.
-- Thomas S. Monson -
The privilege and pleasure That we treasure beyond measure Is to run on little errands for the Ministers of State.
-- W. S. Gilbert -
You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand
-- Woodrow Wilson -
Thought is an errand boy, fear a mine of worries.
-- Yunus Emre -
There is little anyone can do with fanatics. Reasoning with them is a fool's errand. Avoiding them is mandatory.
-- Bill O'Reilly -
I was a trader for a company. That's different from the brokers who we sort of disdain as sort of just errand boys.
-- Melvin Van Peebles -
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
