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Quotes About Livelihood

Knox County, Tennessee, is a great place to live, work, and raise a family.
~ Kane
The term 'Xiaokang' is used today to refer to a society where people can receive education, get paid through work, have access to medical services and old-age support, have a shelter and more than enough food and clothing, and lead a well-off life.
~ Li Keqiang
Nowadays, the term 'selling out' doesn't exist anymore because everyone is trying to make a living.
~ John Cameron Mitchell
I think it's a terrible thing to write and not enjoy it. It's a sad thing. But of course a lot of people do work because they need to eat. And we all need to eat, but that's not the only reason to work. You couldn't have paid me not to write.
~ Anne Perry
I lived to be on stage, and I'm terrified. Terrified before every show.
~ Joan Rivers
But we can also take the radical view that the test of an economy has to do with the extent to which it is providing everybody with a decent means of living.
~ David Korten
Choose a field that will supply sufficient remuneration to provide adequately for your companion and your children. I bear testimony that these criteria are very important in choosing your life's work.
~ Thomas S. Monson
There's a great sense of achievement, testosterone, fun, being able to live out your masculinity when you play an action role or an action-adventure or a real tough-guy role.
~ Gerard Butler
Most congenial, the booleying life, though never as exciting as the sea. Sure
~ Robin Maxwell
All copyrights are held by the Stationers' Company, and they pay a pittance. They control all and there is nowhere else to go. A man ekes out an existence only if he can do other things as well. A dramatist does scarcely better, for he must sell his copyright to the theatrical companies, and if he gets as much as six pounds he is fortunate. No, my friend, it is no way to earn a living.
~ Louis L'Amour
dropped the idea of writing professionally and focused on earning a living. I'm fairly sure that was the wrong decision.
~ S.M. Stirling
If you have to farm, the Willamette is about the best place in the world to do it.
~ S.M. Stirling
You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.
~ Henry David Thoreau
You could live a little or you could live a lot.
~ Alice Hoffman
A man just can't earn a living wage selling Smurfpecker in this blighted nation. I have to tell you, heroin dealers and meth slingers have made your country a wretched place to be a simple, honest drug dealer who wants to give his customers a lovingly curated experience. "Tom
~ Joe Hill
Gandhian economic boycott, however, combined refusal to buy English textiles with the collection of funds for the merchants precisely not to confuse the key issue by threatening their livelihood.
~ Johan Galtung
It makes my wife mad, you know, she wants me to stay home all the time. But its what I've done all my life and I think when I quit doing it I'll probably go away pretty quick.
~ Merle Haggard
Cease, cows, life is short.
~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The first consideration for all, throughout life, is the earning of a living.
~ Ihara Saikaku
While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal living conditions on this earth?
~ George Bernard Shaw
If the gig's going really well, I'm incredibly happy on stage and really feel good about my life and things.
~ James Taylor
Do you know how many concerts I've done in my whole life, in more than 35 years of performing? Sixty-four.
~ Carly Simon
There have definitely been more than a few moments in my life where I'm wondering where the next paycheck will come from and how I'm gonna pay rent.
~ Anna Kendrick
There is always a type of man who says he loves his fellow men, and expects to make a living at it.
~ E.W. Howe