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Quotes About Dole

I was looking for the meaning of life when I was in college. And my deal with my dad was as long as I was taking a full course load, then he would pay. And the times that I wasn't taking a full course load, then I was off the dole and I was working.
~ John Mackey
It is very easy for middle-class people who come from moneyed backgrounds not to understand what it's like for people when they first go down to the dole office because they've lost their jobs.
~ Anna Soubry
Fasting is a shield against (hell) fire. Charity and dole remove and finish sin, as does the remembrance of Allah in the midnight.
~ al-Baqir, Muhammad
I loved you: and, it may be, from my soul The former love has never gone away, But let it not recall to you my dole; I wish not sadden you in any way. I loved you silently, without hope, fully, In diffidence, in jealousy, in pain; I loved you so tenderly and truly, As let you else be loved by any man.
~ Alexander Pushkin
The white men on the Brinkley set were trying not to grin, like cheap lawyers at a ten-car pileup: Uh, did that mean Senator Dole didn't think all the facts were out? Didn't he believe the White House, that North and Poindexter were the only ones who knew? The Bobster dropped an eyebrow and rasped: "Aghh, don't think Ripley'd believe that.
~ Richard Ben Cramer
They called in medics, but two got killed trying to get to Dole.
~ Richard Ben Cramer
Then he dipped his finger into Dole's shredded jacket, and with Dole's blood traced an "M" on his forehead. That'd let the medics know he'd had a shot—another would kill him, overdose ... if a medic ever got there ... if McBryar could spot one
~ Richard Ben Cramer
I am not seeking any position in a Dole Administration.
~ Elaine Chao
Afterwards, when they went around the table discussing the government's 'achievements', Clark's answer was 'that we have really succeeded in putting a lot of people out of work'. There was grim laughter at that, but he was absolutely serious. The unions, he thought, had been 'disciplined by the fear of being put on the dole and this is a considerable, though brutal, achievement'. But apart from that, he could think of nothing else.
~ Dominic Sandbrook
I don't want to live in a society where we ask sporting leagues or place of employment to dole out harsher punishment than what the criminal justice system would.
~ Shannon Sharpe
No genuinely avant-garde artist should ever be on the government dole.
~ Camille Paglia
You can't think 'Dole' without thinking 'Bob Dole' and cartoons and third-person good times. He was one of those politicians: the kind you jabbed but were happy enough to have around.
~ Jeanne Marie Laskas
If thou of fortune be bereft, and in thy store there be but left two loaves, sell one, and with the dole, buy hyacinths to feed thy soul.
~ John Greenleaf Whittier
Even though I am Chairman of Dole Food Company, I do most of my own grocery shopping.
~ David H. Murdock
My thermograph got nothing," he said. "I think that place is deader than Bob Dole's dick.
~ Scott Nicholson
I didn't grasp the basic principle of being a promoter, which was: Put on music but also generate an income. I was on the dole most of the time.
~ Alex Kapranos
I learned later that the surgeon who put Dole back together after he was so badly injured in World War II was an Armenian whose family had deep memories of the genocidal campaign the Turks had waged against them.
~ Joseph Robinette
My mum was a single mum on the dole.
~ Jake Bugg
I finished school in 1981 when there was a recession on so there was not a lot of money around or work. I worked on building sites during that time and there were many people on the dole or always looking for work.
~ Sean Lock
We have here a human as well as an economic problem. When humane considerations are concerned, Americans give them precedence. The lessons of history, confirmed by the evidence immediately before me, show conclusively that continued dependence upon relief induces a spiritual and moral disintegration fundamentally destructive to the national fibre. To dole out relief in this way is to administer a narcotic, a subtle destroyer of the human spirit.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
the dole replaced the former reliance on hard work and self-betterment that had led earlier generations to improve their lot.
~ Fred Siegel
The war effects me less than it ought. I can do no service to anybody by agitating for news or making dole over the slaughter.
~ Wilfred Owen
The war affects me less than it ought. But I can do no service to anybody by agitating for news or making dole over the slaughter.
~ Wilfred Owen
Romney, like Sen. John McCain and Bob Dole before him, were meant to mollify moderates, attract Independents, and 'rebrand' the party in a way that mostly fits the ideal of media types who would never vote Republican anyhow. Each of them lost.
~ Kellyanne Conway