writing is a labor of love and also an act of defiance, a way to light a candle in a gale wind. — Alice Childress Copy Share Image
A lot of times you can lose the MP3s - it's a lot of labor to be finding it again, putting things… — Afrika Bambaataa Copy Share Image
And I've always been very close to my friends and allies in the black community, the Latino community and organized labor. — Tom Hayden Copy Share Image
Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience. — George Washington Copy Share Image
In the postindustrial age, labor is seen as essentially uninvolved in the social process because there is no need for assertive labor. — Herbert Schiller Copy Share Image
We live in a country that has profited for hundreds of years off the labor of individuals without having to pay for… — Jalen Rose Copy Share Image
Versailles was a gulf into which the labor of France poured its earnings; and it was never full. — Francis Parkman Copy Share Image
Jesus, I live for Thee, I labor for Thee, I desire only Thee. Thou in me and I in Thee; Thou with… — Rose Philippine Duchesne Copy Share Image
Americans are a very backward people, with all the real virtues of a backward people; the patriarchal simplicity and human dignity of… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Industry has operated against the artisan in favor of the idler, and also in favor of capital and against labor. Any mechanical… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
In a socialist society, everybody is obliged to work even though he is remunerated for his labor and not yet according to… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
I do not think that there is any doubt about where I stand in respect to boycotts. If there is, I will… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The owners of labor, on the other hand, are being taught, by the most powerful and well-publicized examples, that the highest rewards… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
Each year, Labor Day gives us an opportunity to recognize the invaluable contributions that working men and women make to our nation,… — Tom Perez Copy Share Image
To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The purpose of finance is to enable business to acquire the ownership of capital instruments before it has saved the funds to… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
When you put a tremendous amount of love into your work, as in any relationship, you can't know - you can only… — Anne Michaels Copy Share Image
For women in my lifetime things have changed quite a bit, but not enough. They have only changed for women that have… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Avoid idleness, and fill up all the spaces of thy time with severe and useful employment; for lust easily creeps in at… — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
I want labor to be the point, because everything in our lives is miraculously made with no idea of how it's done.… — Tom Sachs Copy Share Image
What about precarious labor? It's actually not the most efficient form of labor at all. They were much more efficient when they… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
The family is an early expedient and in many ways irrational. If the race had developed a special sexless class to be… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
If General Motors, Ford and Chrysler get the bailout that their chief executives asked for yesterday, you can kiss the American automotive… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
Happy Labor Day, I don't even know what this day is for but as long as we get out of school it's… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What can't be said can be written. Because writing is a silent act, a labor from the head to the hand. — Herta Muller Copy Share Image
Labor Day symbolizes our determination to achieve an economic freedom for the average man which will give his political freedom realty. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It was closer to manual labor than shooting a film. I always think of something Michael Caton-Jones told me: 'Pain is temporary.… — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
I have very mixed feelings about Jesse Jackson. He's very good about labor, and human and civil rights issues, but not so… — Jello Biafra Copy Share Image
But men labor under a mistake. The better part of the man is soon plowed into the soil for compost. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Temperance and labor are the two best physicians of man; labor sharpens the appetite, and temperance prevents from indulging to excess — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
No hours, nor amount of labor, nor amount of money would deter me from giving the best that there was in me. — Colonel Sanders Copy Share Image
All public resources go to the rich. The poor, if they can survive in the labor market, fine. Otherwise, they die. That's… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
For now indeed is the race of iron; and men never cease from labour and sorrow by day and from perishing by… — Hesiod Copy Share Image
You are much surer that you are doing good when you pay money to those who work, as the recompense of their… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
All the love, caring, prayers, and labor it takes to raise a family is a wonderful thing and a blessing to have. — Porsha Williams Copy Share Image
We perceive that the schemers return again and again to common sense and labor. Such is the evidence of history. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In the no-nonsense school of adversity, which we did not choose for ourselves, we are learning how to operate a labor union. — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
Perhaps a day might come when there would be at last be enough to go round, and when posterity could enter into… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Success is brought by continued labor and continued watchfulness. We must struggle on, not for one moment hesitate, nor take one backward… — William Jennings Bryan Copy Share Image
