Quotes About Work

Work was the antidote—to faithless friends, determined killers, and a society more bent upon revenge than justice. It was something that could be done, whereas all one could do with life's slings and arrows was to bear them, bravely or not.

Wilder's "truth" was less a matter of fact than of her memories, feelings, and convictions. Her work was based on facts but not factual. It was historical fiction, not history. Its chronology, and certain incidents and characters, were invented, altered, and fictionalized.

Nothing that you see or hear or read will be likely to exaggerate the physical discomfort or material losses due to these storms. Less emphasis is usually given to the mental effect, the confusion of mind resulting from the overthrow of all plans for improvement or normal farm work.

In attacking the problem of erosion control, one great handicap lies in the scarcity of people left to do the essential work. On a recent drive to our county seat thirty miles away, we could count only sixteen occupied homes, including those within half a mile on either side of the federal highway.

But of all our losses in recent years, the most distressing is the loss of our self-respect. How can we feel that our work here has any dignity or importance when the world places so low a value on the products of our toil?

Growing up in politics I know that women decide all elections because we do all the work.

It's true, Christmas can feel like a lot of work, particularly for mothers. But when you look back on all the Christmases in your life, you'll find you've created family traditions and lasting memories. Those memories, good and bad, are really what help to keep a family together over the long haul.

Well there's nobody who has a more supportive husband than I do, and he has a business that he runs, and it's his own business, so he has work to do, my kids have school to do, I mean, people have - there are other things in life besides politics.

Whoever said running in the morning gives you energy never had a day job that involves customer service.

You know what, kid? You need to get over yourself. You work in a bookstore. You don't make the books. You don't write the books and if you were any good at reading the books, you probably wouldn't work in a bookstore. So wipe that judgmental look off your face and tell me to have a nice day.

In the Richard Scarry sense of the world, everyone in my life is busy being busy. And I'm busy too.

In between, for five or ten minutes at a stretch, the real version, tense and dishonest and uncertain. I rarely allowed her to emerge for long. Work—all that productive, effective, focused work—kept her distracted and submerged all day. And drink—anesthetizing and constant—kept her too numb to feel at night.

Houses were a particular nightmare for her, bringing into play two of the most conflicting forces in her nature: absolute dependence on living in surroundings that were both very comfortable and totally to her own taste; and an absolute distaste for the kind of work that went into making them so.

If you have a penis and a job, being handsome is a fantastic bonus but hardly a necessity.

you have a penis and a job, being handsome is a fantastic bonus but hardly a necessity.

I talked to my agent today. He thinks maybe I should do a television series. I would like to do something where I have to work all the time. Keep my mind off my mind, as it were. Get up real early in the morning, act like someone else all day, and fall asleep at night. A perfect job for me. The fix that doesn't.

How about I burn us some dinner before my shift starts.

Pretty is the queen that rules our land, o'er hard-working peasants known by Substance.

My meaningless office job: they pay me for my body and mind, but my heart gets no paycheck and my soul pays the taxes.

I enjoyed in every way my 12 years of playing Archie, and I wasn't personally sad about finishing a long job.

hard work never killed anyone... but why take a chance?

Every work that we do should be a part of the Christ forming in us which is the meaning of our life, to it we must bring the patience, the self-giving, the time of secrecy, the gradual growth of Advent. This Advent in work applies to all work, not only that which produces something permanent in time but equally to the making of a carving in wood or stone or of a loaf of bread. It applies equally to the making of a poem and to the sweeping of a floor.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr. liked to read the daily paper while seated behind his desk at his day job as manager and proprietor of a car dealership in a freestanding stone garage near his home in West Barnstable on the corner of Route 6A and Plum Road.

Norman Mailer was once asked how he felt when he wasn't working. "Edgy, I get into trouble," he replied. "I would say I'm wasting my substance completely when I'm not working." I feel the same way.