Unemployed Quotes · Page 6

I couldn't live without work. That's what makes me so sympathetic towards those people who are unemployed. I don't know how they…

— Margaret Thatcher

Dear God. Not only am I unemployed and homeless, but I also have a pregnant woman, bereaved dog, elephant, and eleven horses…

— Sara Gruen

In my view, if you have one in 10 unemployed - something is wrong with the economy whether you call it recession…

— Amity Shlaes

During the Depression years, I began to identify to some extent with the unemployed, the organization for the unemployed at that period.

— Ella Baker

Old maids like the houseless and unemployed poor, should not ask for a place and an occupation in the world: the demand…

— Charlotte Bronte

I hate to see anybody be unemployed, but if there's a certain segment of society I think it's political consultants and operatives.

— Rob Zerban

“The quality of a society and of its culture will depend on the status of its unemployed.”

— Ivan Illich

Woe be to the generation that lets any higher faculty in its midst go unemployed.

— Henry David Thoreau

The last thing I need is for daughter to move back into my basement and become another unemployed millennial statistic. Would love…

— Kate Siegel

Perhaps well-to-do women and unemployed ghetto teenagers have something in common. Neither group has been allowed to develop the self-confidence that comes…

— Gloria Steinem

This [Gang of Eight bill (S.744)] is far, far too many low-skilled workers that are going to take jobs and pull down…

— Jeff Sessions

All my adult life, I have lived with Labour lies about tax cuts. Their cry is always the same. Tax cuts are…

— John Redwood

I went from an unemployed actor's life to doing stand-up comedy, and that was fortuitous. It's not the usual way the crow…

— Catherine Tate

I like owning dirt. You know, I spent a lot of time broke when I moved to California. So deep in my…

— George Clooney

Remove the heavy clothing of your self-definition. You are not woman, you are not American, you are not son, you are not…

— Jan Frazier

When people are against profits they're against business; when they're against business, they're against employment; when they're against employment, it's not surprising…

— Richard J. Needham

Without in any way minimising the economic and psychological blow that people experience when they lose their jobs, the unemployed in affluent…

— Peter Singer

Across Europe, not just in the U.K., the old Beveridge and Bismarckian variants of the welfare state have been dismantled. In their…

— Guy Standing

Last month, the House of Representatives passed the Veterans Opportunity to Work Act, which would provide training and assistance to unemployed veterans,…

— Joe Heck

I think that my experience as a single mom getting into relationships in an impoverished district with men that don't have options…

— Cheri Honkala

“Ofer Sharone, a professor at MIT’s Sloan School of Management, says some of these new services create wonderful opportunities for the underemployed…

— Anonymous

I've tried to get better about weighing what I think the accessibility of an idea is against the cost of executing it.…

— Steven Soderbergh

Everyone is skeptical. Only the media are not skeptical, but, then, they were also not skeptical when the administration put out the…

— Ann Coulter

“I have been watching the Democrats run the USA for four years. The police are still corrupt and incompetent, their ‘green’ energy…

— Steven Magee

We got to put in place policies to ensure that those who are unemployed, what do we do for them?

— Tan Cheng Bock

There's no requirement that jobs be meaningful. If there was, half the country would be unemployed.

— Max Barry

Hope is the motivation that empowers the unemployed, enabling them to get out of bed every single morning with unbounded enthusiasm as…

— Emanuel Cleaver

When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression.

— Jesse Jackson

I'm one of the great unemployed looking for the next job. I'm waiting for the right offer. Like anyone, I want something…

— Francesca Annis

One should not be too severe on English novels; they are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed.

— Oscar Wilde

If the unemployed could eat plans and promises, they would be able to spend the winter on the Riviera.

— W. E. B. Du Bois

I'm a concert pianist, that's a pretentious way of saying I'm unemployed at the moment.

— Oscar Levant

“If you are working with no vision to be own your own boss, you are no different from people who are unemployed”

— Sunday Adelaja

“Last night we were noting, a freelance musician and an unemployed. But you know what we are now? ... Both unemployed?”

— Yahtzee Croshaw

“Few things are more pathetic than an unemployed man with a business card. P.15”

— Jonathan Tropper

After a while, if you are sufficiently bored or unemployed, you may want to read it from cover to cover.

— Leonard Cohen

What kind of a society are we going to have if it consists of highly paid people doing high-value-added work - and…

— Andy Grove

When you are unemployed, you tell yourself that you are not going to find a way out.

— Edouard Mendy

I definitely have had my down times and also have had my times of being very, very unemployed.

— Vincent Rodriguez III

“I'm a spoiled rich girl who has the privilege to mope around, feeling sorry for herself for being unemployed. I get it.”

— Kristin Cashore