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Quotes About Work

Spirit-filled Christians are quite apt to be physically exhausted at the close of the day. They are weary in the work, but not weary of the work.
~ Lewis Sperry Chafer
A certain kind comes very fast, but unexpectedly, like a feeling about work on behalf of beauty no one devours: those carrot birds, those radish flowers.
~ Unknown
A marriage is hard work and sometimes it's a bit of a bore. It's like housework. It's never finished. You've just got to grit your teeth and keep working away at it, day after day.
~ Liane Moriarty
I'd be at work where poeple respected my opinions, said Nick. And then, I'd come home and it was like I was the village idiot.
~ Liane Moriarty
The bills would keep on coming, no matter what else was happening in your life and that was good because it gave you a purpose. You worked so you could pay them. You rested on the weekends and generated more bills. Then you went back to work to pay for them. That was the reason for getting up tomorrow. That was the meaning of life.
~ Liane Moriarty
She had always had a slight mistrust of busy people; the sort of people who described themselves as 'Flat-out Frantic!' What was the hurry? Why didn't they just slow down? Just what exactly were they so busy doing?
~ Liane Moriarty
Every time I ask her to explain her job, I forget to listen.
~ Liane Moriarty
How in the world had Bonnie managed to get Madeline's ex-husband out of bed at that time of the morning to go and work in a homeless shelter? Nathan wouldn't get up before 8 a.m. when they were married. Bonnie must give him organic blow-jobs.
~ Liane Moriarty
marriage is hard work and sometimes it's a bit of a bore. It's like housework. It's never finished. You've just got to grit your teeth and keep working away at it, day after day. Of course, the men don't work as hard at it as we do, but that's men for you, isn't it? They're not much good at housework either.
~ Liane Moriarty
when I tried to explain my job. I'm sure it has never
~ Liane Moriarty
I'd be at work, where people respected my opinions," said Nick. "And then I'd come home and it was like I was the village idiot. I'd pack the dishwasher the wrong way. I'd pick the wrong clothes for the children. I stopped offering to help. It wasn't worth the criticism.
~ Liane Moriarty
Full-time work caused a kind of claustrophobic terror to build and build within her chest until one day there was a humiliating emotional spillage that resulted in her termination or resignation
~ Liane Moriarty
Been at a meeting then?"said the cab driver taking Erica back into the city. He grinned laterally at her in the rear-vision mirror as if it were kind of cute the way women worked these days, all dressed up in suits, almost like they were proper business people.
~ Liane Moriarty
For Pete's sake, the girl went back to work three months after Jacob was born. It wasn't like having a baby would be that big an inconvenience for her.
~ Liane Moriarty
Every time I ask her to explain her job, I forget to listen. Her
~ Liane Moriarty
lately with work, and, you know, the baby thing. Obviously it would never happen again and he was very, very, very sorry and he loved her so much and God, it was such a relief to have this
~ Liane Moriarty
The kid probably didn't realize that a white-collar worker could spend a whole day in his office doing nothing, literally sweet fuck-all, and still get paid for it.
~ Liane Moriarty
he works from home a lot." "That must be nice. Or is it? Does he get under your feet?" Di picked her way unsteadily across the sand. "Sometimes I send Bill off to buy me something at the supermarket I don't really need, just to give myself a little breather.
~ Liane Moriarty
A marriage is hard work and sometimes it's a bit of a bore. It's like housework. It's never finished. You've just got to grit your teeth and keep working away at it, day after day. Of course, the men don't work as hard at it as we do, but that's men for you, isn't it? They're not much good at housework either.
~ Liane Moriarty
Conversations with women about work could be so fraught.
~ Liane Moriarty
I search, but never find. Hurt, but never cry. I work and forever tired.
~ Lil Wayne
Im a love machine, and I wont work for nobody but you. Its only me and her cuz the bugatti a coupe.
~ Lil Wayne
Man I go crazy on the beat I go Nimrod, Man I act a ass, treat the beat like a hemorrhoid Man I go to work on the beat, call it employ, Man I kicks it, b-tch get your shin guard.
~ Lil Wayne
Sometimes, as much as writing saves one's own life, you cannot imagine how it will save another's. This is another reason why it is important to do the work, over and over again. It is food, the kind a soul needs.
~ Lilith Saintcrow