Quotes of: Working-man Keyword

Obama is an intelligent man whose life and work experience sensitize him to class distinctions.

Timothy Noah

The biblical method of change begins in the heart of man with the Gospel. It transforms the mind of man and gradually works its way out. And it builds a nation from the bottom up.

Kirk Cameron

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Aldous Huxley

Any man today who returns from work, sinks into a chair, and calls for his pipe is a man with an appetite for danger.

Bill Cosby

Man, who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance!

Doris Lessing

Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.

Barbra Streisand

Finishing work makes you a man, finishing difficult work makes you a hero.

Amit Kalantri

Before 'Cinderella Man,' I didn't box. But I boxed. It's possible. You go and you work hard at things.

Craig Bierko

As an older and wiser man, I don't believe in luck. I believe in hard work and talent and determination.

Dexter Fletcher

You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you odd.

Collected Works: Wise Blood / A Good Man is Hard to Find / The Violent Bear it Away / Everything that Rises Must Converge / Essays and Letters

I don't like work--no man does--but I like what is in the work--the chance to find yourself. Your own reality--for yourself not for others--what no other man can ever know. They can only see the mere show, and never can tell what it really means.

Heart of Darkness

Many of the poets writing today are hung up on language and symbolism. If the poem does not have depth of meaning or fit a certain academic styles and standards, then it is not poetry. Poetry should relate to the man on the street who has to work for...

Harley King

Existential philosophy, poetry and art - just like sadness - were all unavoidable to a tender young man in the meat works.

Michael Leunig

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Barbra Streisand

My father was trained as a saddler, but in fact as a young man worked in his father's business of rearing and selling cattle, so he grew up in the countryside.

Aaron Klug

Let no one take the limited, narrow position that any of the works of man can help in the least possible way to liquidate the debt of his transgression. This is a fatal deception. If you would understand it, you must cease haggling over your pet idea...

Notebook leaflets

A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the facade of his appearance.

Alanis Morissette

Being your own boss is much superior to working for the man. Including working for your father.

Nolan Bushnell

Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.

Robin G. Collingwood

I worked with Roger Moore on three episodes of 'The Saint.' He is a lovely man, a good director, and was my favourite actor to work with.

Shirley Eaton

What works for a man, still does not work for a woman - both in terms of how they see themselves and how we see them.

Madeleine M. Kunin