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Work Quotes by P.J. O'Rourke
- Collectivism doesn't work because it's based on a faulty economic premise. There is no such thing as a person's "fair share" of wealth. The gross…
- It's the squares who know how to fly the fighter planes and operate the missiles and the bombs and work the M-16s. Liberals would still…
- When government does, occasionally, work, it works in an elitist fashion. That is, government is most easily manipulated by people who have money and power…
- We won't dispassionately investigate or rationally debate which drugs do what damage and whether or how much of that damage is the result of criminalization.…
- Stay away from girls who cry a lot or who look like they get pregnant easily or have careers.
- In the past a man was expected to give his seat on a bus to a woman. Today it would be much more courteous for…
- The Constitution is an equally forthright piece of work and quite succinct ... giving the complete operating instructions for a nation of 250 million people.…
- There was also a hunger strike in front of the National Press Club, which seemed an odd place to have a hunger strike (a cocktail…
- Journalists aren't supposed to praise things. It's a violation of work rules almost as serious as buying drinks with our own money or absolving the…
- In Washington journalists can afford to live almost as well as people who work for a living.
- Politics doesn't work. Look at the parts of America where government has had the most power, where government has spent the most money. Look at…
- .......the poor of the world cannot be made rich by redistribution of wealth. Poverty can't be eliminated by punishing people who've escaped poverty, taking their…
- The commies are the only people on earth who think Star Wars will work. If they're that gullible, maybe we should have held the summit…
- The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the…
- To mistrust science and deny the validity of the scientific method is to resign your job as a human. You'd better go look for work…
- Most people sort of enjoy going to work because of the socialisation, a chance to flirt with co-workers and so on, but actually hate the…
- A person has got to balance work and life and family in order to be a balanced person.
More Work Quotes
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. — Aristotle
- Successful people don't relax on a chair. They feel relaxed with their work. They sleep with their dreams and wake up with… — Ritu Ghatourey
- Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and years, and… — Lance Armstrong
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- I just let the work speak for itself. An actor is not afraid to take risks; to put on different hats; to… — Kevin Bacon
- A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and in the… — Clive Bell