Quotes About Work
One can't work/by limelight.//A bowlful/right at/one's elbow//produces no/more than/a baleful/glow against/the kitchen table.//The fruit purveyor's/whole unstable/pyramid//doesn't equal/what daylight did.
~ Kay Ryan
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God enjoys himself, kills, commits injustice, makes love, works, likes impossible things, just the same as I do. But, boss, I´ve said so before, and I say it again, God and the devil are one and the same thing!
~ Kazantsakis Nikos
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Wykonywana w poÅ'owie praca- mówiÅ' mi kiedyÅ›- wyra?ane w poÅ'owie mysli, póÅ'grzesznicy i póÅ'Å›wiÄ™ci doprowadzili ten Å›wiat do opÅ'akanego stanu, w jakim dzis siÄ™ znajduje. Id? prosto do celu, wal Å›miaÅ'o, nie bój siÄ™, azwyci??ysz! Bóg bardziej nienawidzi diabÅ'a od arcydiabÅ'a.
~ Kazantsakis Nikos
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Looking back now, it's funny to think we got so worked up, because usually the Sales were a big disappointment....But the point was, I suppose, we'd all of us in the past found something at a Sale, something that had become special...and so however much we tried to pretend otherwise, we couldn't ever shake off the old feelings of hope and excitement.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
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All right, so neither of us are exactly in our first flush of youth, but you've got to keep looking forward.' And I believe it was then that he said: 'You've got to enjoy yourself. The evening's the best part of the day. You've done your day's work. Now you can put your feet up and enjoy it. That's how I look at it. Ask anybody, they'll all tell you. The evening's the best part of the day.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
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And one has a right, perhaps, to feel a satisfaction those content to serve mediocre employers will never know – the satisfaction of being able to say with some reason that one's efforts, in however modest a way, comprise a contribution to the course of history.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
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As we got older, we went on talking about the Gallery. If you wanted to praise someone's work, you'd say: "That's good enough for the Gallery." And after we discovered irony, whenever we came across any laughably bad work, we'd go: "Oh yes! Straight to the Gallery with that one!
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
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The evening's the best part of the day. You've done your day's work. Now you can put your feet up and enjoy it. That's how I look at it. Ask anybody, they'll all tell you. The evening's the best part of the day.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
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In the meantime, I'll get a job. I'll pay my own way." "A job?" "Mmm, yeah. It's that thing people do to make money.
~ Kelley Armstrong
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Shadowy mystery stalkers? Hidden escape hatches? Creepy subterranean tunnels? My mother tried to get me to take social work for my master's. I told her it was boring. I was so wrong.
~ Kelley Armstrong
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People today work as hard, if not harder, than they did thirty years ago. The only difference is the quality of the work they perform. They no longer accomplish anything of value. They only service the machines.
~ Kelley Armstrong
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No one on their deathbed ever wished they spent more time in the office.
~ Kelley Armstrong
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This application of godly wisdom flows down from the heavenly places, and makes for the daily answers to life's situations, to any and every circumstance-it gets the job done! This is loosing Christ out into the streets. The Word must be made flesh, walked out in shoe leather. The Gospel we preach must work in the dirt.
~ Kelley Varner
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The beloved may be treacherous, greasy-headed and given to evil habits, or else it can be a man in his late forties who works too much, or it can be an alarm clock.
~ Kelly Link
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No wonder there are so many working mothers—even a bad boss gives you more slack than your own child.
~ Kelly McClymer
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Hard work should be rewarded by good food.
~ Ken Follett
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The Bible says, 'If any would not work, neither should he eat.' Saint Paul wrote that, in Second Thessalonians, chapter three, verse ten
~ Ken Follett
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Like so many parties, this one was work for a lot of the guests.
~ Ken Follett
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Philip had always believed that hard work should be rewarded by good food.
~ Ken Follett
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Are you dating anyone?' 'Sally Dasilva.' 'The actress. I saw a picture of the two of you, arriving at some premiere, but I didn't know if it was serious.' It was not very serious. 'She's in LA, and we both work a lot. But we get a weekend together once in a while.' 'By the
~ Ken Follett
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This guy was high on Greg's suspect list. He was German, though he had left in the mid-1930s and gone to London. He was an anti-Nazi but not a Communist: his politics were Social Democrat. He was married to an American girl, an artist. Talking to him over lunch, Greg found no reason for suspicion: he seemed to love living in America and to be interested in little but his work. But with foreigners you could never be quite sure where their ultimate loyalty lay.
~ Ken Follett
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They all looked as Da came in from the street, wearing his meeting suit and a flat miner's cap, perspiring from the walk up the hill. He took a step into the room, then stopped, staring. "Look who's here," Mam said
~ Ken Follett
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He put on his coat and hat. Then he returned to the kitchen. He kissed his mother and embraced his father. "What's this for?" said his father. "You're only going to work." "It's just in case we never meet again," Volodya said. Then he went out.
~ Ken Follett
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Así que primero impides que consiga trabajo y luego me amenazas con meterme en la cárcel por no tenerlo. Supongo que me enviarán a un campo de trabajo, ¿verdad? Entonces sí que estaría empleada, solo que no me pagarían. Me encanta el comunismo, ¡es tan lógico! ¿Por qué habrá gente tan desesperada por escapar de él, me pregunto yo?
~ Ken Follett
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