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Diets are a fool's errand. -- Evangeline Lilly
Let the grand errand into America never be forgotten. -- Ezra Stiles
Thought is an errand boy, fear a mine of worries. -- Yunus Emre
Composers should write tunes that chauffeurs and errand boys can whistle. -- Thomas Beecham
Any kid will run any errand for you, if you ask at bedtime. -- Red Skelton
Solving a problem created by debt... by creating more debt is a fool's errand. -- Olivier Sarkozy
Nobody's perfect, and to try to pretend you're perfect is an exhausting fool's errand. -- Rosemary Mahoney
I'm the last person who has any desire to instruct anybody in shame. That's no errand for me. -- Jock Sturges
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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
The truth is, this being errand boy to one hundred and fifty thousand people tires me so by night I am ready for bed instead of soirees. -- Rutherford B. Hayes
I know I need to be dependent on the Lord. I will try to do what he wants for the Young Women and to be a receptive servant while I'm on his errand. -- Margaret D. Nadauld
Many thought it was a fool's errand - that the browser companies were never going to listen to us. Others argued that, 'Users don't care if you use Web standards.' Well, of course they don't. They just know that your site works better. -- Jeffrey Zeldman
You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand. -- Woodrow Wilson
For folks in Washington to believe that they are smart enough to pick the next energy technology is, in my judgment, the height of arrogance. For me or any of my peers to pick energy-technology X as the solution to solving America's energy problems is just a fool's errand. -- Mike Pompeo
The blind quest for cash is a fool's errand. -- Tim Ferriss
Life was a fool's errand, carrying news to the worms. -- Kylie Tennant
The cheek Is apter than the tongue to tell an errand. -- William Shakespeare
Composers should write tunes that chauffeurs and errand boys can whistle -- Sir Thomas Beecham
When you're on the Lord's errand, you're entitled to the Lord's blessings. -- Thomas S. Monson
Any kid will run any errand for you, if you ask at bedtime." -- Red Skelton
The magic of the street is the mingling of the errand and the epiphany. -- Rebecca Solnit
I seldom made an errand to God for another but I got something for myself. -- Samuel Rutherford
Traveling is no fool's errand to him who carries his eyes and itinerary along with him. -- Amos Bronson Alcott
You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand -- Woodrow Wilson
Riddle of destiny, who can show What thy short visit meant, or know What thy errand here below? -- Charles Lamb
Until Christ is our treasure, any other motivation we have to suffer for him is a fool's errand. -- Matt Chandler
It is impossible for us to fail when we do our best when we are on the Lord's errand. -- M. Russell Ballard
Life's a vast sea That does its mighty errand without fail, Painting in unchanged strength though waves are changing. -- George Eliot
Not another flag has such an errand, carrying everywhere, the world around, such hope for freedom such glorious tidings. -- Henry Ward Beecher
We live in a world of easy friendships - people here for you when it's easy, 'so-sorry-but-I-have-an-errand-to-do-now' when it's not. -- Marianne Williamson
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
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
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
What a thrill, what a shock, to be alive on a morning in June, prosperous, almost scandalously privileged, with a simple errand to run. -- Michael Cunningham
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'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
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
An errand is getting a tank of gas or picking up a carton of milk or something. It is not getting chased by flying purple pyromaniac gorillas hurling incendiary poo!" -- Jim Butcher
Short-term market and economic prognostication is largely a foolâ??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
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
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
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

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