Quotes of: Working-life Keyword

I'm this overachiever type, I'll just work and work and I'll just do it over and over and over again.

Venus Williams

People who work 44 hours per week make 50 percent more than people who work 34 hours a week.

Warren Farrell

Music is not my life. My life is music.

Killosophy

Goal Of LIFE Is patience, Goal Of Patience Is LIFE!

Life Simplified!

My life is okay, my life is pretty good.

Shia LaBeouf

Music is my life. It is sacred.

Jimmy Chamberlin

A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.

Madame de Stael

Tragedy of life is not to have many purposes in life, but to have no purpose in life.

Debasish Mridha

Everything in life is a metaphor for everything in life." Bonnie Marlewski-Probert

Bonnie Marlewski-Probert

It takes life to live life

Jonathan Safran Foer

I don't like the term mid-life crisis.

Pamela Stephenson

[F]rom my years of understanding ... I happily chose this kind of life in which I yet live [i.e., unmarried], which I assure you for my own part hath hitherto best contented myself and I trust hath been most acceptable to God. From the which if eithe...

Collected Works

And I wished I could believe him. I wished with all that I had. And when you're eleven, you're on the cusp between still believing wishing worked if you wanted something hard enough and understanding the world is teeth and sharp edges. I wished. I di...

The Art of Breathing

The Average Occidental- be he a democrat or a Fascist, a Capitalist or a Bolshevik, a manual worker or an intellectual- knows only one positive "religion", and that is the worship of material progress, the belief that there is no other goal in life t...

Islam at the Crossroads

Each day, at the same time, Jude would return and they would be there, led by Webb, whose life could not have been more different than his. Where Webb's memories of childhood were idyllic and earthy, Jude's reeked of indifference. Webb read fantasy; ...

On the Jellicoe Road

Together, on his back porch, his cigarette smoke rising like incense to the heavens, we spoke to the God of grace we both are so grateful to know up close and personal. It may be the most beautiful prayer I've ever heard. Jesus, for some reason you'v...

Sin Boldly: A Field Guide for Grace

It was at a concert of lovely old music. After two or three notes of the piano the door was opened of a sudden to the other world. I sped through heaven and saw God at work. I suffered holy pains. I dropped all my defences and was afraid of nothing i...

Steppenwolf

Hawaii once had a rat problem. Then, somebody hit upon a brilliant solution. import mongooses from India. Mongooses would kill the rats. It worked. Mongooses did kill the rats. Mongooses also killed chickens, young pigs, birds, cats, dogs, and small ...

Still Life with Woodpecker

Once a person has been poisoned by self-deception, he can't make decisions about himself as neatly as all that," Himiko said, elaborating her friend's terrific prophecy; " You won't get a divorce Bird. You'll justify yourself like crazy, and try to s...

A Personal Matter

In the very act of writing I felt pleased with what I did. There was the pleasure of having words come to me, and the pleasure of ordering them, re-ordering them, weighing one against another. Pleasure also in the imagination of the story, the feelin...

In Pharaoh's Army: Memories of the Lost War

It may be possible for each to think too much of his own potential glory hereafter; it is hardly possible for him to think too often or too deeply about that of his neighbor. The load, or weight, or burden of my neighbor's glory should be laid daily ...

The Weight of Glory