Quotes of: Working-classes Keyword

If you've worked in Australia, you can't get away with bad behaviour like showing up late. We take our work ethic very seriously.

Margot Robbie

I don't work out but generally I am fit, which is why I don't work out.

Natalie Massenet

I work hard, like I'm sure everyone else does, and I'm very honest with the work I do.

Shahrukh Khan

My parents had always preached the virtues of hard work. But hard work is one thing; economic struggle is another.

Sargent Shriver

If you enjoy working with someone, you must work with them. Again and again and again. If you enjoy the atmosphere and your work, why should you stop yourself?

Sonakshi Sinha

All white-collar work is project work. The single salient fact that touches all of our lives is that work is being reinvented.

Tom Peters

My mother raised us to think that if we worked hard, and if we put our end of the bargain in, it would work out OK for us.

Ursula Burns

The entire issue is that women bear a disproportionate share of the hard work. Birthing, carrying, the whole thing - it's hard work.

Pete Sessions

The members of the functional and socially mobilized under class must, in some very real way, be seen as the architects of their own fate. If not, they could be, however marginally, on the conscience of the comfortable. There could be a disturbing fe...

The Culture of Contentment

Where does one go from the bottom? You hit the bottom of the well and what? People say the only place to go is up, but they seem to ignore how long you can spend wallowing in the muck at the bottom of the well.

Cutting Class

There I am, in the Grade Six class picture, smiling broadly. , is what my mother says for happy. I am happy as a clam: hardshelled, firmly closed.

Cat's Eye

I’m sorry to pull you out of your classes, but your adviser understands,” Kitteredge said. “He’s a friend of the family.” So that’s it, Neal thought. You bought me; you own me.

A Cool Breeze on the Underground

[O]n general principles it is best that I should not leave the country. Scotland Yard feels lonely without me, and it causes an unhealthy excitement among the criminal classes.

The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax

The only class I studied religiously was Christianity 101.

At even one penny, this book would be overpriced. In fact, free is too expensive, because you'd still waste time by reading it.

He was trying to talk to Cath about buffalo. As far as she could tell, Levi had a whole class that was just about buffalo. He seemed like he'd major in buffalo if that were an option. Maybe it was an option….

Fangirl

Do you realize that a middle-class couple, one archaeologist, one dolls' expert, can't move from their house because ancient spirits are blocking them in? It's a reasonable sort of day's experience, isn't it?

The Fetch

At first I was glad for the help. My freshmen English class, "Mythology and Archetypal Experience," confounded me. I didn't understand why we couldn't just read books without forcing contorted interpretations on then

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

If you see yourself as other people see you, it means you are lost, you don't know yourself and you have closed down a world class university of diligence!

The Great Hand Book of Quotes

I'm tired of feeling like I should be grateful when popular culture deigns to acknowledge the experiences of people who are not white, middle class or wealthy, and heterosexual.

Bad Feminist: Essays

Mrs. Rouncewell holds this opinion because she considers that a family of such antiquity and importance has a right to a ghost. She regards a ghost as one of the privileges of the upper classes, a genteel distinction to which the common people have n...

Bleak House

I gotta hand it to ya, Tristan. You may be a world-class fuckup with what you done to Lisa, but you got taste, man. You got good taste.

The Billionaire Who Atoned to Me