Women are the victims of war... as widows they've faced the trauma of being single parents and livelihoods of families are affected.… — Kumari Jayawardena Copy Share Image
We ought to recognise the profound gulf between the work to which we are 'called' and the work we are forced into… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
The examination system, and the fact that instruction is treated mainly as a training for a livelihood, leads the young to regard… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
To maintain nice relation with the people is half of intelligence, nice questioning is half of knowledge, and nice domestic arrangements is… — Ali ibn Abi Talib Copy Share Image
Millions of people in nearly 80 countries still live in fear of landmines and explosive remnants of war, which take an unacceptable… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
I write humor the way a surgeon operates, because it is a livelihood, because I have a great urge to do it,… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
The Tea Party is protecting its millionaire and oil company friends while gutting critical services that they know protect the livelihood of… — Andre Carson Copy Share Image
I have always found that my view of success has been iconoclastic: success to me is not about money or status or… — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
The biggest danger we face is overfishing. We literally could fish out our oceans, some scientists believe, in the next 40, 50,… — Ted Danson Copy Share Image
In every Indigenous community I've been in, they absolutely do want community infrastructure and they do want development, but they want it… — Rebecca Adamson Copy Share Image
People, regardless of political views, matter in this state and in this country and in this world. And, you know, when people… — Clive Palmer Copy Share Image
Communications and commerce are global; investment is mobile; technology is almost magical; and ambition for a better life is now universal. We… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
The future of our children is a trust we have been given. To conserve and grow, not to squander wastefully on needless… — Helen Caldicott Copy Share Image
Some men covet knowledge out of a natural curiosity and inquisitive temper; some to entertain the mind with variety and delight; some… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
We seem to have forgotten that the expression "a liberal education" originally meant among the Romans one worthy of free men; while… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The poor ignorant fellah [Arabic for peasant] does not worry about politics, but when he is told repeatedly by people in whom… — Chaim Weizmann Copy Share Image
The natural resources we've depended on, if the places where they exist are not stable, our own livelihood and our health is… — Jeff Corwin Copy Share Image
I never dreamt of being a musician for my livelihood. I certainly never would have wanted to be in the business that… — Eddie Van Halen Copy Share Image
Hollywood is largely about scammers and con men. It was my main livelihood for about 25 years, and the scams were beautiful… — Ben Stein Copy Share Image
The actual consequences of Plan Colombia are to devastate peasant communities, which have been driven to drug production. These peasants have no… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The income men derive from producing things of slight consequence is of great consequence. The production reflects the low marginal utility of… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
war has dug itself into economic systems, where it offers a livelihood to millions ... It has lodged in our souls as… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Millions of people toil in the shadow of the law we make, and much of their livelihood is made possible by the… — Alex Kozinski Copy Share Image
We were raised with that discussion about violence and non-violence, and we all pretty much came up on the side of non-violence.… — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
If you're a director, your entire livelihood and your entire creativity is based on your self-confidence. Sometimes that's dangerously close to arrogance. — Trevor Nunn Copy Share Image
I wanted to get clean. I knew that my highest potential, the place that I was most spiritual, the place that I… — Macklemore Copy Share Image
I still don't understand the music industry that much. Everything I learned was from hanging out with rock musicians in studios. I… — Brendan Fraser Copy Share Image
I spent my life - all my life - learning to wrestle. It's the only means of livelihood I've ever had and,… — Lou Thesz Copy Share Image
Our family has made its livelihood from the land, digging trenches for hundreds of miles cross-country. You could say this is a… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
It's an unbelievable responsibility to influence decisions, shareholder value and most important to me, people's careers and livelihoods. — Andrea Jung Copy Share Image
At the age of nineteen and a half, I went to the Land of Israel to till its soil and live by… — Shmuel Yosef Agnon Copy Share Image
When you're playing it as a business... your livelihood depends on winning and losing and so some- times sportsmanship is lost, as… — Danny Ainge Copy Share Image
A large proportion of the human race, it is true, is obliged to work so hard in obtaining the necessaries that little… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
A boy or girl who has gone through the eight grades should possess a complete, practical education and should have received special… — Arthur Capper Copy Share Image
“In many areas, too, people are having to deal with environmental problems and, with these, threats to their livelihood and worse. At… — Dalai Lama XIV Copy Share Image
All our contemporary philosophers perhaps without knowing it are looking through eyeglasses that Baruch Spinoza polished. Spinoza was a philosopher who earned… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
Magazines and advertising are flogging the idea that you have to keep changing things and get something new. I think that's balls… — Robin Day Copy Share Image
There's so many people dependent on our work for their living or their livelihood. You do something whether it works or whether… — Elliott Gould Copy Share Image
These masters of the universe must be tamed in the interests of the ordinary families whose jobs and livelihoods are being put… — Vince Cable Copy Share Image
Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image