Quotes of: Locked-up Keyword

Individuals out of work for an extended period can become less employable as they lose the specific skills acquired in their previous jobs and also lose the habits needed to hold down any job.

Janet Yellen

May hard work, and justice, always cement our bonds of unity that we may get our country back to production.

Mwai Kibaki

I'm really puzzled by why people in societies find it difficult to work collaboratively together with other people in societies.

Michael Porter

We need a national infrastructure bank to rebuild our crumbling highways and water and sewer systems, thereby putting additional people back to work.

Robert Reich

The only way back toward a democracy and economy that work for the majority is for most of us to get politically active once again, becoming organized and mobilized.

Robert Reich

It is safe to say that when people are short on cash, they might be less productive at work, be worse parents, and have less self-control.

Sendhil Mullainathan

We can each define ambition and progress for ourselves. The goal is to work toward a world where expectations are not set by the stereotypes that hold us back, but by our personal passion, talents and interests.

Sheryl Sandberg

I wasn't the brightest kid, not by a long shot. I was interested in football, in girls, in getting my work done with the least amount of effort.

Thomas J. Sargent

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Batman: The Killing Joke

Look here, Mrs. Bradley," he said. "I feel a pretty frightful bounder telling you all this about the poor girl, but I think some woman ought to know about it. On Wednesday night, yes, last night, Eleanor came into my bedroom at about half-past twelve...

A Speedy Death

My mind is a warehouse of carefully organized human emotions. I lock away the things that do not serve me.

Destroy Me

Without imagination, writing is a stack of lumber, a sack of nails, and a locked tool shed.

The Daddy Rock

The moon hangs alien, heavy, like a lock on a door; the door is tightly shut. ("The North")

The Dragon: Fifteen Stories

It was as if pain were a room he had entered and the door had been locked behind him.

Eating Naked: Stories

Locking eyes with a shape-shifter was aggressive. Very aggressive. One generally didn't do that unless one wanted to fight. .

Black Beast

My relief dissipates as James Blunt's yowling voice is overwhelmed by the scream of locking brakes:eieeeeeeeEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE... My head lurches into darkness.

Bloody Flies

Not all developing countries are the same.

The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It

The fact that the poor are alive is clear proof of their ability.

Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty

Experience alone can give a final answer. The knowledge gained in a few years by a commission of the kind suggested would be worth more than volumes of mere assertions and contradictions.

John Bates Clark

Sisters are always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone, they pose at the mirror, shoulders bare, trying this way and that their hair, or fly importunate down the stair to answer the telephone.

Phyllis McGinley

I've never owned an Apple product. I like the fact that PCs are open architecture and not locked down like Apple products. I feel that Macs are also unjustifiably overpriced.

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