Employed Quotes

344 quotes by 286 authors

In Hollywood a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a brothel. — Ben Hecht
It is doing some service to humanity, to amuse innocently. They know but little of society who think we can bear to be always employed,… — Hannah More
The history of mankind is the history of ideas. For it is ideas, theories, and doctrines that guide human action, determine the ultimate ends men… — Ludwig von Mises
We took tea, by Boswell's desire; and I eat one bun, I think, that I might not be seen to fast ostentatiously. When I find… — Samuel Johnson
Edwards said he would like to be remembered for the impact he has had on the lives of his players. In this business we are… — LaVell Edwards
The word 'vegetable' has no precise botanical meaning in reference to food plants, and we find that almost all parts of plants have been employed… — Charles Heiser
It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession. — Samuel Johnson
It is a great mortification to the vanity of man, that his utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of nature's productions, either… — David Hume
A new, self-employed architect scientist is the one in all the world who may accelerate realization of a high-standard survival for all, as now completely… — R. Buckminster Fuller
My biggest hope that we're going to make it here is that this thinking is being manifested & really employed by the young world. Will… — R. Buckminster Fuller
For truth itself does not have the privilege to be employed at any time and in every way; its use, noble as it is, has… — Michel de Montaigne
The advantages of a uniform statistical nomenclature, however im- perfect, are so obvious, that it is surprising no attention has been paid to its enforcement… — William Farr
I see no reason for giving the capital employed in agriculture greater protection than the capital vested in other branches of trade, manufacture, or commerce. — Joseph Hume
If the heart wanders or is distracted, bring it back to the point quite gently... And even if you did nothing during the whole of… — Saint Francis de Sales
The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste… — Thomas Traherne
The theory of ramification is one of pure colligation, for it takes no account of magnitude or position; geometrical lines are used, but these have… — James Joseph Sylvester
The word of knowledge, strictly employed, implies three things: truth, proof, and conviction. — Richard Whately
If gratitude, when exerted towards another, naturally produces a very pleasing sensation in the mind of a grateful man, it exalts the soul into rapture… — Joseph Addison
A peculiarity of capital is that it cannot be employed productively without benefiting the community in which it is used. — William Feather
Idleness is the enemy of the soul; and therefore the brethren ought to be employed in manual labor at certain times, at others, in devout… — Benedict of Nursia

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