Quotes About Drudgery

Sanctification will be drudgery unless we believe that holiness is possible and that it is pleasing to God.

If the human being is condemned and restricted to perform the same functions over and over again, he will not even be a good ant, not to mention a good human being.

Every Friday is black where I work.

Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.

But the long hours of mechanical drudgery were telling on his active body and undisciplined nerves. He had begun too late to subject himself to the persistent mortification of spirit and flesh which is a condition of the average business life; and after the long dull days in the office the evenings at his grandfather's whist-table did not give him the counter-stimulus he needed.

It was all terrible and tiring and meaningless.

La mayor parte de la gente - responde Kustos - hace eso. ¿No? Trabajan para poder trabajar

Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

So must people hate their jobs.That's why they're called it jobs

So? Most people hate their jobs. That's why they're called jobs.

Writing should be a joyous act, not drudgery, and frankly so should the teaching of it.

The word 'robot', derived from the Czech word robota, meaning 'drudgery' or 'servitude', is of more recent origin, first used in 1921, in a play, R.U.R., by the Czech author Karel ?apek.

Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow a genius like Mr. Dalton's, to be employed in the drudgery of elementary instruction.

It is useless to deny that, unless one has a genius for imparting knowledge, teaching is a drudgery.

Polly was all too aware that much of her time on holiday would be spent doing the laundry and the cooking and the child-care and all the other chores that back in London would be shared with her cleaning lady. A holiday with Theo and the children represented two weeks of domestic and maternal drudgery.

A lot of times in our jobs, we go day-to-day, we're in a routine, we sometimes become robots.

What a starved, unloved life she had had—a life of drudgery and poverty and neglect; for Marilla was shrewd enough to read between the lines of Anne's history and divine the truth.

WORK is a four-lettered word, that ends with a "K

Year after year of dirty snow and bitter winds… houses and whole districts of people who aren't really unhappy, but worse, who are neither happy nor unhappy; people who are ugly because they're neither ugly nor beautiful; creatures that are dismally neutral, who long without longings as though they're unconscious, unconsciously suffering from being alive.

Our society respects someone's throwing himself into sports, but anybody who works very long hours is regarded as sick, a workaholic. So the prejudices of the majority say that sports are good and fun, but work is drudgery, a necessary evil, and in no way a source of pleasure.

The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.

He hated to think of his own life stretching ahead of him that way, a long succession of days and nights that were fine - not good, not bad, not great, not lousy, not exciting, not anything.

Drudgery means doing an ungrateful task for an ungrateful person – and anyone employed at the bottom of the labour market knows what that means. The

This society turns everything it touches into a potential source of progress and exploitation, of drudgery and satisfaction, of freedom and of oppression.