Working It Quotes
527 quotes by 478 authors
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Oh, she's my bodyguard. I mean, I'm a married man, and the last thing you need in that situation is to be considered a sexy…
— Patrick Dempsey
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I didn't want to work. It was as simple as that. I distrusted work, disliked it. I thought it was a very bad thing that…
— Agatha Christie
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The opposite of play isn’t work. It’s depression. To play is to act out and be willful, exultant and committed as if one is assured…
— Brian Sutton-Smith
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The Sookie Stackhouse novels were selling well before the TV show, but the TV show led to a lot more exposure and readers. And a…
— Charlaine Harris
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What are works of art for? to educate, to be standards. To produce is of little use unless what we produce is known, is widely…
— Gerard Manley Hopkins
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Grit is not synonymous with hard work. It involves a certain single-mindedness. An ungritty prison inmate will mount a daring new escape attempt every month,…
— Chip Heath
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People think that in order for something to work, it has to be complicated, but a lot of times the opposite is true. We usually…
— Assata Shakur
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Night is a more quiet time to work. It aids thought.
— Alexander Graham Bell
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Two-point-seven percent unemployment equates to -- everybody who wants to work is working. It equates to full employment.
— Betty Williams
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Have faith to keep all the commandments of God, knowing that they are given to bless His children and bring them joy. [You] will encounter…
— Russell M. Nelson
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I don't want to hear about the endless struggles to keep sex exciting, or the work it takes to plan a date night. I want…
— Mindy Kaling
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The basis for the ethics of the Sermon on the Mount is not what works but rather the way God is. Cheek-turning is not advocated…
— Stanley Hauerwas
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But if I be asked what sign we may look for to show that the advance of the faith is at hand I would answer…
— Hilaire Belloc
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I've thought a lot about the power of empathy. In my work, it's the current that connects me and my actual pulse to a fictional…
— Meryl Streep
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My own sense of well-being and purpose in the world. That comes from studying the world feelingly, with empathy in my work. It comes from…
— Meryl Streep
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Listening well is an exercise of attention and by necessity hard work. It is because they do not realize this or because they are not…
— M. Scott Peck
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When you once get an idea in which you believe with all your heart, work it out.
— Henry Ford
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My point is that it's incorrect to say that the Iraq policy isn't working. It is working. It is doing what they want. They have…
— Michael Parenti
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I am not a librarian of my own work. It's a good thing not to be too involved with what you have done.
— Mick Jagger
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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…
— P.J. O'Rourke
Who Wrote These Working It Quotes
478 authors contributed a total of 527 Working It Quotes, led by these top contributors: