Labor Quotes
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Lately, the only thing keeping me from being a serial killer is my distaste for manual labor.
Scott Adams -
And if any work that I have done should have value beyond my own lifetime, I believe it will be the happy labors of the decade 1869-1878.
William Jackson
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A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
William Faulkner -
Coming from a working-class background, where my father did manual labor, was a good grounding; I was obsessed with getting a job or getting out of the house at 15.
Johnny Marr Pretenders -
Without labor nothing prospers.
Sophocles -
Those familiar with our Musical Theatre Workshops productions will notice this is a very large cast. With only 10 days of rehearsal, these 20 actors will have their work cut out for them. It's definitely a labor of love.
Kevin Moore Chroma Key -
'The Last Starfighter' was the first movie I did in the U.S. It was an absolute joy to be a part of it. 'Night of the Comet' was a labor of love. Truly a collaborative effort. I am eternally grateful for the experiences.
Catherine Mary Stewart -
For small community banks and credit unions, like those in Central and Northern Wisconsin, the hundreds of new rules will require an estimated 2,260,631 labor hours just for compliance. Those are hours that your local bank or credit union will spend dealing with some Washington bureaucrat instead of focusing on the needs of customers like you.
Sean Duffy
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Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.
William Ellery Channing -
Here is a guy who's supposed to be the Genghis Khan of the church, the pro-choice people hate him, and I don't know about his labor background so I figured there must be more to him, and there is. I wrote a book about John Cardinal O'Connor.
Nat Hentoff -
I usually lump organized religion, organized labor, and organized crime together. The Mafia gets points for having the best restaurants
Dave Beard -
What is acquired without labor is seldom worth acquiring at all.
Ann Radcliffe -
Writing is like fishing. You don't bow because you made the fish. That's the difference. If you know that, then you bow for your labor.You crafted, you worked, you put in those hours so that you could catch that fish. But you didn't make that fish. You just caught the fish. That will help you stay humble and bow for the right reason and be very lucid about the work you do.
Sandra Cisneros -
We passed the Children's Bureau bill calculated to prevent children from being employed too early in factories.
William Howard Taft
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The demand for commodities is not the demand for labor.
John Stuart Mill -
We are coming to see that there should be no stifling of labor by capital, or of capital by labor; and also that there should be no stifling of labor by labor, or of capital by capital.
John D. Rockefeller, Jr. -
For the rest, whatever we have got has been by infinite labor, and search, and ranging through every corner of nature; the difference is that instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax, thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.
Jonathan Swift -
So May 4th in the labor movement has always been an important date.
William Kunstler -
In any service where a couple hold down jobs as a team, the male generally takes his ease while the wife labors at his job as wellas her own.
Anita Loos -
Slaving gave rise to a division of labor.
Eric Wolf
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The labor movement was the principal force that transformed misery and despair into hope and progress.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -
Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.
Abraham Lincoln -
Poverty, labor, and calamity are not without their luxuries, which the rich, the indolent, and the fortunate in vain seek for.
William Hazlitt -
The only way to get what you're worth is to stand out, to exert emotional labor, to be seen as indispensable, and to produce interactions that organizations and people care deeply about.
Seth Godin