Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anthony Trollope

A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.

Aristotle

It is also in the interests of the tyrant to make his subjects poor... the people are so occupied with their daily tasks that they have no time for plotting.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is related of an Englishman that he hanged himself to avoid the daily task of dressing and undressing.

Kathleen Norris

Laundry, liturgy and women's work all serve to ground us in the world, and they need not grind us down. Our daily tasks, whether we perceive them as drudgery or essential, life-supporting work, do not define who we are as women or as human beings.

Oscar Niemeyer

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.

Mahatma Gandhi

This mad rush for wealth must cease and the labourer must be assured not only of a living wage but, also a daily task that is not mere drudgery.

William Feather

The prizes go to those who meet emergencies successfully. And the way to meet emergencies is to do each daily task the best we can.

Diane Kruger

I'm European, small, dainty - but I actually consider myself more of a tomboy.

Manolo Blahnik

These are very dainty and superrefined, but really vile.

Bryce Courtenay

Small can beat big, but you must have a plan.

Nayvadius Cash

I can't leave home without certain movies. 'The Godfather' is a big one for me. And I've gotta have my beats so I can write new music.

Luca Parmitano

Is there any other job that beats being an astronaut? Who didn't want to be an astronaut? That is my question.

Robert Krulwich

When you talk or write or film, you work with the music inside you, the music that formed you. Different generations have different musics in them, so whatever they do, it's going to come out differently, and it will speak in beats of their own generation.

Earl Sweatshirt

My beats are pretty s - - y, though. I don't know how they work.

Michael Egan

We want our customers to have fun. I tell everyone that any (customer) who beats me in a game of horseshoes gets 15 percent off.

Demi Lovato

When you start to beat yourself up, remind yourself of how worthy you are of love.

Lev Grossman

When it comes to true humility in the face of history, nothing beats complete silence.

Rick Perlstein

There's a lot of surplus rage from the '60s that was never really worked through publicly. I think a lot of that rage still exists, and I think you see that when John McCain runs a commercial that beats up on Hillary Clinton's earmark for a Woodstock museum.