Quotes About Work

You will live as you live anywhere. With difficulty, and grief. Yes, you are dead. And I and my family and everyone, always, forever. All dead, like stones. But what does it matter? You still have to go to work in the morning. You still have to live.

It is such hard work to keep your heart hidden! And worse, by the time you find it easy, it will be harder still to show it. It is a terrible magic in this world to ask for exactly the thing you want. Not least because to know exactly the thing you want and look it in the eye is a long, long labor.

All jobs are odd, or they would be games or naps or picnics.

Sibyl, what do you want?" "I want to live," the Sibyl said, and her voice rang rich and full. "I want to keep on living forever and watching heroes and fools and knights go up and down, into the world and out. I want to keep being myself and mind the work that minds me. Work is not always a hard thing that looms over your years. Sometimes, work is the gift of the world to the wanting.

Perhaps memory is a thing that everyone involved has to work at, like stitching up a big quilt out of everything that ever happened to you.

Snow White gets a Social Security card. She gets a job building houses out in California. Picks oranges.

It's just a job. Why do boys have to make everything sound weird? It's not a robot until you put a girl inside. Sometimes I feel like that. A junkyard the Company forgot to put a girl in.

Once, just once, Sally had suggested that Daphne worked too hard. "And now with this big house. . ." Daphne had turned to the house, looked up at the three narrow stories, and said, "Only in New York would this be considered a big house. It has one bathroom." She turned back to her mother. "One bathroom," she said, in a kind of wonder.

He didn't believe that life was just getting a job you hated and working really hard at it so you could earn enough money to have periodic fun.

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Icouldn't get a thing right this morning. My mind just wasn't on my work. I could barely look at the boy. I couldn't meet his eye.

The point is the effort

Why would I marry? I'm not made to be any man's chattel. I have my work, which I love. I have my home—it is not much, I grant, yet sufficient for my shelter. But more than these, I have something very few women can claim: my freedom. I will not lightly surrender it.

under the surface there is often ambivalence about women at work that makes their position vulnerable.

she could make the decision whether she moved jobs or not.

Joseph worked in the men's clothing department of a big store in Grafton Street.

To lift up the hands in prayer gives God glory, but a man with a dungfork in his hand, a woman with a slop pail, give Him glory, too. God is so great that all things give Him glory if you mean that they should.

And when Peace here does house He comes with work to do, he does not come to coo, He comes to brood and sit.

If women could regard childbearing not as a duty or an inescapable destiny but as a privilege to be worked for, the ay a man might work for the right to have a family, children might grow up without the burden of gratitude for the gift of life which they never asked for.

If women could regard childbearing not as a duty or an inescapable destiny but as a privilege to be worked for, the way a man might work for the right to have a family, children might grow up without the burden of gratitude for the gift of life which they never asked for.

Rast ich, so rost ich. (When I rest, I rust.)

Stigmas as the corollaries of values. If work, independence, responsibility, respectability are valued, then their converse must be devalued, seen as disreputable.

I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to get rich.

Rhetoric makes use of nature's secrets in the same way as painters who try to imitate it: their most beautiful work is false.