Quotes About Labor

I'm an intellectual, but I've always had jobs that required physical labor above all else.

This is just what I have thought when I have seen slaves at work - they seem to go through the motions of labor without putting strength into them. They keep their powers in reserve for their own use at night, perhaps.

I did six internships, even though I was only allowed to do one. I had a paper with my advisor's signature on it that I would just forward for every new internship. I didn't get school credit, but I got away with giving free labor to everyone.

Sometimes it seemed to me I could not look at those silent little figures; that I must go north, to the grim coal fields, to the Rocky Mountain camps, where the labor fight is at least fought by grown men.

If you look at the Greek economic record, it's been very similar to the U.S. experience in the first four years of the Great Depression. And after having a Depression-sized event, they've cut the unit-labor cost in Greece - they've closed something like half the gap with Germany.

We will open a new bunch of reforms regarding the labor market to make it simpler and adaptable, more flexible.

To labor in the arts for any reason other than love is prostitution.

When Krishna instructed Arjuna that we have a right to our labor but not to the fruits of our labor, he was counseling the warrior to act territorially, not hierarchically. We must do our work for its own sake, not for fortune or attention or applause.

The Bhagavad-Gita tells us we have a right only to our labor, not to the fruits of our labor. All the warrior can give is his life; all the athlete can do is leave everything on the field.

Bhagavad-Gita tells us we have a right only to our labor, not to the fruits of our labor.

I stayed nine weeks. The last four were offshore. Pay doubled on the rigs to four dollars an hour but the best part was meals were free (steak for dinner every night with unlimited milk from the machine) and every week was eighty hours with forty of that counting as time-and-a-half.

To labor in the arts for any reason other than love is prostitution. Recall the fate of Odysseus' men who slew the cattle of the sun. Their

All I know how to do is work.

We have the right to our labor but not to the fruit of our labor.

He'd have to cut it up and bag the pieces, another chore.

This is sounding like too much work.

I'm chronically unemployed. Never had a job my whole life. None of my family did. I take that back. Once my daddy was hired on a construction crew for two weeks and two days. He said it was way more work than it paid. He maintained it was just one more way to take advantage of the poor.

Like God's, women's toil had no beginning and no end.

I told Sabe floor-scrubbing was winter

the Russell slaves name Tom has his own blacksmith shop on East Bay. Missus Russell let him work for hire all day

My dad could go to work, he could get raises, he could be thanked for his contributions, he got a pay-check for his labor, but that didn't happen for moms. The best they could hope for would be a crayon valentine or a squashed, limp dandelion flower offered up from the damp hand of their wide-eyed and innocent child. Which wasn't nothing. In all my days I'd never considered anything to be more important than home. In a chaotic world, it was sanctuary; it was where love grew.

She hadn't surrendered to knowing she would be dealing with her disease for the rest of her life. No matter what, it would be there. If she needed surgery, she would have to be careful with painkillers. If she had another child, she should probably not get drugs during labor. For the rest of her life, every single day, she would be on guard. Just like every other alcoholic in recovery.

most of us no longer have the luxury of asking whether a job is genuinely productive, but only whether it pays well and has tolerable conditions.

Gide and I have attained such perfect intellectual communion that I experience the appropriate labor pains for every thought he gives birth to!