#errand

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

#errands #incendiary-poo #pyromaniac-gorillas #danger

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

— Yunus Emre

#errand #fear #mine #thought #worries

Solving a problem created by debt... by creating more debt is a fool's errand. ↗

— Olivier Sarkozy

#creating #debt #errand #fool #more

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

#achievement #amply #enable #enrich #errand

How sweet the morning air is! See how that one little cloud floats like a pink feather from some gigantic flamingo. Now the red rim of the sun pushes itself over the London cloud-bank. It shines on a good many folk, but on none, I dare bet, who are on a stranger errand than you and I. How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature! ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#london #morning #nature #petty-ambitions #sherlock-holmes

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

#bed #being #boy #errand #fifty

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

— Thomas Beecham

#errand #should #tunes #whistle #write

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

— Jock Sturges

#anybody #desire #errand #i #instruct

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