Famous quotes containing the words task, force and/or series:
“They talk about a womans sphere,
As though it had a limit.
Theres not a place in earth or heaven.
Theres not a task to mankind given ...
Without a woman in it.”
—Kate Field (18381896)
“Circumstances define us; they force us onto one road or another, and then they punish us for it.”
—Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (18181883)
“Life ... is not simply a series of exciting new ventures. The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one, things that simply wont be got rid of.”
—Anita Brookner (b. 1928)