Working Quotes

7856 Working quotes by 5240 unique authors

The State Department is infested with communists. I have here in my hand a list of 205—a list of names that were made known to… — Joseph McCarthy
We spend more time working for our labor-saving machines than they do working for us. — Edward Abbey
Simplicity is always a virtue. One kid on a riverbank working out a Stephen Foster tune on his new harmonica heard from the correct esthetic… — Edward Abbey
Socialism has never and nowhere been at first a working-class movement. — Friedrich August von Hayek
The general (federal) government will tend to monarchy, which will fortify itself from day to day, instead of working its own cures. — Thomas Jefferson
At the working man’s house, hunger looks in but dares not enter. — Benjamin Franklin
I’ve said about a million times that the best thing a young photographer can do is to stay close to home. Start with your friends… — Annie Leibovitz
I never have [suffered writer’s block], although I’ve had books that didn’t work out. I had to stop writing them. I just abandoned them. It… — Margaret Atwood
Before the arrival of the Credit Union, people who were from the poor background or a working class background couldn't borrow from banks. — John Hume
In working class districts, you had several families living together in the one house, and it was very difficult to get a house, because the… — John Hume
That coarseness and strength combined with acuteness and inquisitiveness; that practical, inventive turn of mind, quick to find expedients; that masterful grasp of material things,… — Frederick Jackson Turner
One glance proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that these unions (railroad craft unions) are exceedingly useful to the corporations; and to the extent… — Eugene V. Debs
I am not a capitalist soldier; I am a proletarian revolutionist. I do not belong to the regular army of the plutocracy, but to the… — Eugene V. Debs
Most people trusted in the future, assuming that their preferred version of it would unfold. Blindly planning for it, envisioning things that weren't the case.… — Jhumpa Lahiri
When I'm working on a book, I constantly retype my own sentences. Every day I go back to page one and just retype what I… — Joan Didion
I was the hero of the young insurgent working class art movement. — Elia Kazan
The working class is revolutionary or it is nothing. — Karl Marx
The French need a thrashing. If the Prussians win, the centralisation of the state power will be useful for the centralisation of the German working… — Karl Marx
I was working on a flat tax proposal and accidentally proved there was no God. — Homer
Golfers are forever working on mechanics. My tennis swing hasn't changed in 10 years. — Pete Sampras
The week before the (US Open) I gave a few interviews for CNN, USA Network, New York Times, USA Today and Sports Illustrated which had… — Roger Federer
In your career you have a lot of good moments and bad ones. The important thing is to have enough motivation to keep working all… — Rafael Nadal
I can't change history, I don't want to change history. I can only change the future. I'm working on that. — Boris Becker
Too often in the past, we have thought of the artist as an idler and dilettante and of the lover of arts as somehow sissy… — John F. Kennedy
I was too lazy to start a whole new story, so I just stuck a princess into the story I was working on... and The… — Meg Cabot

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