Jim Ratcliffe Quotes

Unions do have a proper role in negotiating for employees and advising employees, but they have to engage with the employer.

Jim Ratcliffe

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• The war we have to wage today has only one goal and that is to make the world safe for diversity.

  

  U Thant
  • World
  • War
  • Today

• I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not.

  

  E. P. Thompson
  • Care
  • Leadership
  • Forced

• I don't find much influence in opera. It was such a different part of me.

  

  Zola Jesus
  • Different
  • Me
  • Influence

• We think of the revolution ending in Yorktown, Va. The fact of the matter is that the French defeated the British in a naval battle right in the mouth of Chesapeake Bay. Because the British fleet was coming to rescue Cornwallis, the British general, Washington was able to surround Cornwallis.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Revolution
  • Battle
  • Ending

• I care very much what the fans think. I'm starting to loosen my grip on caring about what critics say, because I think that critics care about what fans think of them, too, so there's a little bit of a refraction there, through that glass.

  

  Dan Harmon
  • Think
  • Care
  • Caring

• If you look at my record, I have a clean record.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • You
  • Look
  • Clean

• I think American audiences like gangster movies. You know, it's part of the culture.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • American
  • Culture
  • Gangster

• I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Live
  • Man
  • Proud

• I want children, but at the moment the liberty I have now finally, has a far too high value.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • Children
  • High
  • Value

• But clearly at the same time you've got to get out there and connect with voters and actually respond to the needs, the frustrations, whatever problems their now saying are not being adequately solved.

  

  Patricia Hewitt
  • Time
  • Problems
  • Saying

• My business is not to show anybody anything; my job is just to do it.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Business
  • Job
  • Show

• Things you create with your mind are always part of your postmortal life, whether they seem real or not.

  

  Hans Bender
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Real

• Agathon: One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace. (tr. Athen. 1912, vol. 2, p. 278) (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)

  

  Aristophanes
  • Good

• I view my own body as a petting zoo. I am the main attraction... And the only customer.

  

  Craig Ferguson

• I love Israel. It is an amazing place, and I'm incredibly lucky; it is one of the most interesting places in the world, and I've been lucky to find it.

  

  James Packer
  • World
  • Interesting
  • Amazing

• Evolution is not an even process. There are surges, and there are micromoments. Certainly a career as an artist is that way.

  

  Eileen Myles
  • Career

• Without faith, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.

  

  Mary McLeod Bethune
  • Faith

• To control the breathing is to control the mind. With different patterns of breathing, you can fall in love, you can hate someone, you can feel the whole spectrum of feelings just by changing your breathing.

  

  Marina Abramovic
  • Different
  • Mind
  • Hate

• If we allow Catalonia - and it is none of our business - to separate, others will do the same. I do not want that.

  

  Jean-Claude Juncker
  • Business

• Time will prolong time, and life will serve life. In this field that is both limited and bulging with possibilities, everything to himself, except his lucidity, seems unforeseeable to him. What rule, then, could emanate from that unreasonable order? The only truth that might seem instructive to him is not formal: it comes to life and unfolds in men. The absurd mind cannot so much expect ethical rules at the end of its reasoning as, rather, illustrations and the breath of human lives.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Truth
  • Rule
  • Breath

• I have a very bad memory. I can't remember my own life very well.

  

  Ethan Canin
  • Memory
  • Own Life
  • Can't Remember

• I've learned a lot about life besides how to take a punch. And I've taken quite a few in and out of the ring.

  

  Jake LaMotta
  • Life
  • Taken

• Making money isn't the main point of business. Money is a by-product.... A new product has been found, something of use to the world. A new industry moves into an undeveloped area. Factories go up, machines go in and you're in business. It's coincidental that people who've never seen a dime now have a dollar and barefooted kids wear shoes and have their faces washed. What's wrong with an urge that gives people libraries, hospitals, baseball diamonds and movies on a Saturday night?

  

  Humphrey Bogart
  • People
  • World
  • Kids

• Unions do have a proper role in negotiating for employees and advising employees, but they have to engage with the employer.

  

  Jim Ratcliffe