Errand Quotes

Thought is an errand boy, fear a mine of worries.

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.

Trying to catch hold of yourself is a fool‘s errand. There is no you, only a series of former yous, created in one instant, deleted in the next.

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.

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.

Nobody‘s perfect, and to try to pretend you’re perfect is an exhausting fool’s errand.

Never delay a prompting. When you honor a prompting and then stand back a pace, you realize that the Lord gave you the prompting. It makes me feel good that the Lord even knows who I am and knows me well enough to know that if He has an errand to be run, and He prompts me to run the errand, the errand will get done.

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.

Let the grand errand into America never be forgotten.

Composers should write tunes that chauffeurs and errand boys can whistle.

There is little anyone can do with fanatics. Reasoning with them is a fool’s errand. Avoiding them is mandatory.

There are definitely times – and I think this is pretty common among cartoonists – where you spend an entire day trying to think of an idea, and you’re like, ‘I give up.’ And then you go and take a shower or run an errand, and halfway there, you get an idea.

I have been benefited by praying for others; for by making an errand to God for them I have gotten something for myself.

Any kid will run any errand for you, if you ask at bedtime.

The world of the small business owner is all about moving multiple items forward at once, and it’s a fool’s errand to believe one person can do it all when the shift comes from linear to parallel.

May I always be found ‘on the Lord’s errand.’

Diets are a fool’s errand.

In an ideal world, we all walk out our door and we all feel the same way about going out to run an errand, going for a jog, whatever the case may be. That shouldn’t be a stressful thing.

I love getting out of the Q train at Union Square. It’s such a mix of people, like a party. There’s always an errand you can do along there, whether it’s picking up contacts or buying poker chips.

I’m the last person who has any desire to instruct anybody in shame. That’s no errand for me.