Quotes of: Labor Keyword

I saw the prospect of serving as labor secretary as a wonderful opportunity to further the policies that I have been fighting for my whole life, and I had to seize it.

Hilda Solis

The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.

Francis Bacon

The sound of thunder, the smell of rain. The earth giving birth to another season. Nature's labor pains...beautiful.

Carol Morgan

My parents had been involved in the labor movement; if we'd grown up in the city, we would have been red-diaper babies.

Holly Near

I have no taste for poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me.

Hunter S. Thompson

The hours Facebook users put into their profiles and lists and updates is the labor that Facebook then sells to the market researchers and advertisers it serves.

Douglas Rushkoff

At this very moment I'm behind on a compilation that Slave Labor is doing for Free Comic Book Day.

Jhonen Vasquez

Vote Labor, and you build castles in the air. Vote Conservative, and you can live in them.

David Frost

It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.

Dag Hammarskjold

Maybe if they had put a little more effort into it, the labor theory of value would be better appreciated today.

John Alejandro King

All the time our union was progressing very nicely. There were lectures to make us understand what trades unionism is and our real position in the labor movement.

Rose Schneiderman

Avner: [after sex] How long into pregnancy are you supposed to stop having sex? Daphna: Labor.

Munich

When you look at the money spent by labor unions for Democrats, it comes as no surprise the Democrats crafted a campaign-finance 'disclosure' bill with the thresholds adjusted to exempt unions.

Mark McKinnon

It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.

Andre Gide

Washington State has a strong tradition of a positive relationship - positive working relationship between labor and management, whether in the private sector or the public sector. It needs to continue to be that way.

Rob McKenna

Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.

William Ellery Channing

It may be underfunded and at times mismanaged, but the [Endangered Species] Act is an unprecedented attempt to delegate human-caused extinction to the chapters of history we would rather not revisit: the Slave Trade, the Indian Removal Policy, the su...

Listed: Dispatches from America's Endangered Species Act

Sometimes, she wondered what she was missing, if her life was somehow incomplete because she didn't see the reflection of her face in the face of a son or daughter. Maybe. That's what mothers told her: Oh, you don't know what you're missing; it's spi...

The Toughest Indian in the World

The free mind, unafraid of labor, presses on to attain the good.

Collected Letters of a Renaissance Feminist

Facilis descensus Averno Noctes atque dies patet atri ianua Ditis Sed revocare gradum superasque evadere ad auras Hoc opus labor est

City of Glass

We are so bound together that no man can labor for himself alone. Each blow he strikes in his own behalf helps to mold the universe.

Jerome K. Jerome