I've appointed a task force to take a fresh look at the color-code system and whether we should retain it, change it or scrap it.
Janet Napolitano
ChangeLookTaskFreshSystemForce
Light is the task where many share the toil.
Homer
LightTaskShareWhereToilMany
The first moments of sleep are an image of death; a hazy torpor grips our thoughts and it becomes impossible for us to determine the exact instant when the 'I,' under another form, continues the task of existence.
Gerard De Nerval
DeathSleepThoughtsImpossibleTask
It is our task to inquire into the causes that have brought about the observed differentiation, and to investigate the sequence of events that have led to the establishment of the multifarious forms of human life.
Franz Boas
LifeHumanEventsHuman LifeTask
The Bible, that powerful book, has many effects: it comforts, counsels, instructs, and brings us into the presence of God. But trying to erase offense as one of its functions is a fundamentally misguided task.
Frederica Mathewes-Green
GodBookBibleTryingPowerfulTask
It often seemed like we had become a nation where the only heroes were rock singers and ball players and that there were no large men of probity who could be called upon for the task.
Elliot Richardson
MenRockBecomeNationHeroesTask
What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in.
David Lloyd George
LiveCountryHeroesTaskFitOur
Jimmy Kimmel has proven to be a preeminent voice in comedy, with 15 seasons of 'Jimmy Kimmel Live' under his belt and successfully tackling the herculean task of hosting both the Emmys and the Oscars in the same season.
Channing Dungey
LiveVoiceComedySeasonsSameTask
The Halifax area has long played a major role in Canada's military operations, being the port of departure for convoys, naval task forces and army units over the past 100 years or so.
Alex Morrison
PastArmyLongCanadaMilitaryTask
He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
KnowSidesTaskTakeMustWho
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.
William Feather
DailyBestGoMeetWayTask
My task with 'Uh-Huh' was to make a more even record and get away from juvenile topics like 'Hurts So Good.' But I also knew if I wanted to continue, I had to have more hits.
John Mellencamp
GoodMoreTaskJuvenileAwayGet
Making lists of favorite things is, for me, a task ridden with anxiety. What if I've accidentally excluded something I love? What if I discover something new tomorrow that I love even more?
Sara Zarr
LoveTomorrowMeAnxietyNewTask
Once the product's task is known, design the interface first; then implement to the interface design.
Jef Raskin
DesignProductFirstTaskOnceThen
The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!
Manuel Puig
LanguageCreateHardSameTaskOwn
It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.
Sophocles
GoodManGood ManHelpTaskThose
Nonetheless, I sense that it will be the task of the future to somehow synthesize the sheer diversity of our present resources into a more organic and well-ordered procedure.
George Crumb
FutureDiversityPresentWillTask
The most original thing a writer can do is write like himself. It is also his most difficult task.
Robertson Davies
WriteDifficultDifficult TaskTask
Ukrainians use the term 'political technologist' as a favored synonym for electoral consultant. Trump turned to Manafort for what seemed at first a technical task: Manafort knows how to bullwhip and wheedle delegates at a contested convention.
Franklin Foer
PoliticalConsultantFirstTaskHow
What happens is that the system builds many inferior blood vessels in the eye to take the place of the vessels that are dying. And those blood vessels are not up to the task. And they bleed. They hemorrhage and they cover the eye inside with blood.
Mary Tyler Moore
EyePlaceBloodInsideDyingTask
We are well aware of the task ahead of us in what will be a very difficult match but which we all dream of playing.
Zinedine Zidane
DreamAheadWillDifficultTaskUs
Create form out of the nature of the task with the means of our time. This is our work.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
WorkNatureTimeCreateTaskOut
My task is to find the authenticity in the character. I tend to go with the script and tell that story.
Ulrich Thomsen
CharacterStoryFindGoTaskTell
Regardless of whether one is a writer or a reader, one's task consists first of all in mastering a life that is one's own, not imposed or prescribed from without, no matter how noble its appearance may be. For each of us is issued but one life, and we know full well how it all ends.
Joseph Brodsky
LifeAppearanceKnowMatterTask
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