Quotes About Livelihood

Le persone che aveva consultato gli avevano unanimemente risposto che la matematica, come il restauro degli organi a canne, era sì una bella cosa, ma che a un certo punto bisognava pur trovare un lavoro che desse da mangiare.

two square yards of public land. Their arbitrary act of expropriation cost Mohamed Bouazizi his livelihood and his life. But his self-immolation sparked a revolution Ã¢â'¬â€œ though how glorious a revolution remains to be seen. It will depend on how far new constitutional arrangements in countries like Tunisia and Egypt achieve the shift from an extractive to an inclusive state, from the arbitrary power of rent-seeking elites to the rule of law for all.

Marx era una persona odiosa. Vividor desaliñado y polemista virtulento le gustaba alardear que su espora era, por nacimiento, «la baronesa de Von Estphalen»(...). En consecuencia, durante casi toda su vida hubo de depender de los donativos de Engels, para quien el socialismo era una mera afición (...)

If a thing moves, it lives.

Munich is a great city. I have lived in many cities in Europe, but I have never felt this comfortable, and my wife and children love it as well.

I always kept busy. If the music business got bad I'd get me a job doin' somethin' else. Bellhop. Porter. Anything to make an honest living.

It's really hard to make a living as a musician. It's almost impossible.

I never dreamt of being a musician for my livelihood. I certainly never would have wanted to be in the business that I'm in, meaning the fame and the glory, the glitter, the rock star, the famous part.

The goal as a musician, I think, is to be able to make music as a living for the rest of your life.

Being a musician is a job - it is just a really fun one!

My generation was maybe the last in which you could set up shop as a writer and hope to make a living at it.

The two of them heartened each other, making bovine life a bit more tolerable.

He returned the money with a graceful letter saying that he had found a means of livelihood which would supply him with all his needs. At the moment he had three francs in the world.

I've been under contract since I was 18 and it's all I've ever known. To me, I'm NOT different from anyone else other than the way I make a living.

Harriet Garner (as she appears in the marriage register) or Gardner (as reported in the newspaper's wedding announcement) married Benjamin Williamson on July 13, 1822. If Garner was Harriet Hemings, she made her decision about her future livelihood quickly but well.

Maintaining healthy forests is essential to those who make a living from the land and for those of us who use them for recreational purposes.

If the indebted Asian immigrant thinks they owe their life to America, the child thinks they owe their livelihood to their parents for their suffering. The indebted Asian American is therefore the ideal neoliberal subject. I accept that the burden of history is solely on my shoulders; that it's up to me to earn back reparations for the losses my parents incurred, and to do so, I must, without complaint, prove myself in the workforce.

If the indebted Asian immigrant thinks they owe their life to America, the child thinks they owe their livelihood to their parents for their suffering. The indebted Asian American is therefore the ideal neoliberal subject.

It is a hard matter to save a city in which a fish sells for more than an ox.

I'd consider being a farmer. As long as I could live on the Pepperidge Farm. And raise Milanos.

Man cannot be worked worse than a horse is worked, and be housed and fed as a pig is housed and fed, and at the same time have clean and wholesome ideals and aspirations.

Non dovremmo nemmeno escludere la possibilità che la scelta delle pratiche di sussistenza spesso fosse una scelta politica - una decisione sulla propria posizione nei confronti dello stato.

Although labor income is by far the largest component of gross national product, a job is not just a commodity. For many, work is an important reason for living. Even for those who are less fortunate in their allocation of work, being unemployed is a miserable state.

Some people unfortunately don't enjoy what they do at all for a living or whatever. That is unfortunate. We do always enjoy playing music.