All Quotes

The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.
‐‐ Pope Paul VI

The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present.
‐‐ Adolf Loos

The work of artists is to find what's humanly possible - possibility's furthest reaches.
‐‐ Tony Kushner

The work of community, love, reconciliation, restoration is the work we cannot leave up to politicians. This is the work we are all called to do.
‐‐ Shane Claiborne

The work of deciding cases goes on every day in hundreds of courts throughout the land. Any judge, one might suppose, would find it easy to describe the process which he had followed a thousand times and more. Nothing could be farther from the truth.
‐‐ Benjamin N. Cardozo

The work of healing is not my work, but by faith, healing is done. The work of deliverance, great and mighty deliverance, is not my work but is my faith in Him. It is not the works of righteousness which I have done, but according to His grace. I am a product of His grace.
‐‐ T. B. Joshua

The work of Henry James has always seemed divisible by a simple dynastic arrangement into three reigns: James I, James II, and the Old Pretender.
‐‐ Philip Guedalla

The work of man is to respond to the Covenant by obeying the commandments of the Torah, those commandments that can be obeyed here and now.
‐‐ David Novak

The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They have struggled against the tide, and reached the shore exhausted.
‐‐ Samuel Smiles

The work of Nigeria is not complete for as long as there is any one Nigerian who goes to bed on empty stomach.
‐‐ Ibrahim Babangida

The work of popular education, the temperance movement, the peace movement, are to a great extent carried on by the young. Their meetings show that the young understand one of their tasks: that of bringing together the different classes through social intercourse.
‐‐ Ellen Key

The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.
‐‐ John Ruskin

The work of television is to establish false contexts and to chronicle the unraveling of existing contexts; finally, to establish the context of no-context and to chronicle it.
‐‐ George W. S. Trow

The work of the artist is to express what is repressed or even to speak the unspoken grief of society.
‐‐ Michael Leunig

The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind ahead even more than teamwork.
‐‐ Igor Sikorsky

The work of the Lord is done by ordinary people who work in an extraordinary way.
‐‐ Gordon B. Hinckley

The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time.
‐‐ Angela Davis

The work of WikiLeaks is with principal documentary evidence; that's where the truth lies. It gets to the heart of the matter. It educates people and in turn empowers them.
‐‐ Sara Harrison

The work of woman is not to lessen the severity or the certainty of the penalty for the violation of the moral law, but to prevent this violation by the removal of the causes which lead to it.
‐‐ Susan B. Anthony

The work on ants has profoundly affected the way I think about humans.
‐‐ E. O. Wilson

The work requires a moderately large investment in technological and theoretical developments and long periods of time to carry them out, without the pressure to achieve quick or short term results.
‐‐ Aaron Klug

The work that I feel is most authentically mine is the one that is my first reaction, the first thing that feels like the truth. In aggregate, those choices, those series of decisions, create your point of view, your visual language.
‐‐ Andrew Zuckerman

The work that I've gotten in the hiatuses seems to indicate that I will have a little more work after 'Mad Men' than I did when I was scraping by while I was temping in New York, but who knows? People very easily could be like, 'Meh, we're done with that. We've got Jon Hamm. We're good without the weird one with glasses.'
‐‐ Rich Sommer

The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity.
‐‐ Vernor Vinge

The work that lasts over time is the work which still speaks to us when all contemporary interest in that work is extinct.
‐‐ Jeanette Winterson

The work that launched Snohetta into the architectural big leagues was their Oslo Opera House, which will certainly rank among the firm's highlights whatever else they may do. Although this is by any measure a triumph of city planning, the building itself is not quite a masterpiece, though very fine indeed.
‐‐ Martin Filler

The work that must be done for each woman to reconnect with her psyche and to give herself a chance to live her own life is essentially the same. The realization of the equality of all races, the equality of all beings is essential.
‐‐ Betty Buckley

The work that we do during the winter is very important; we have a new bike and it's important to develop it during this time, and we start with this test.
‐‐ Valentino Rossi

The work to me is everything, and I would throw every rule overboard and send them to the bottom of the sea tomorrow, if I felt there were a more excellent way.
‐‐ Thomas John Barnardo

The work which is manipulated looks a little boring to me. I think life is pretty strange anyway. It is wooo, wooo, wooo!
‐‐ Annie Leibovitz

The work will stand, no matter what.
‐‐ Meryl Streep

The work with which we embark on this first volume of a series of theological studies is a work with which the philosophical person does not begin, but rather concludes.
‐‐ Hans Urs von Balthasar

The worker can unionize, go out on strike; mothers are divided from each other in homes, tied to their children by compassionate bonds; our wildcat strikes have most often taken the form of physical or mental breakdown.
‐‐ Adrienne Rich

The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave.
‐‐ James Connolly

The worker must have bread, but she must have roses, too. Help, you women of privilege, give her the ballot to fight with.
‐‐ Rose Schneiderman

The worker of the world has nothing to lose, but their chains, workers of the world unite.
‐‐ Karl Marx

The workers have nothing to gain from this war, but they stand to lose everything that is dear to them.
‐‐ Clara Zetkin

The workers of the nation were tired of waiting for corporate industry to right their economic wrongs, to alleviate their social agony and to grant them their political rights. Despairing of fair treatment, they resolved to do something for themselves.
‐‐ John L. Lewis

The workers who harvest our food have been systematically denied the basic rights that are granted to all other American workers. They can be fired for trying to form a union or for attempting to improve their working conditions. They are not eligible for overtime pay, disability, or even unemployment insurance.
‐‐ Eric Schneiderman

The Workforce Investment Improvement Act of 2012 would consolidate and eliminate dozens of ineffective or duplicative programs, enhance the role of job creators in workforce development decisions, and improve accountability over the use of taxpayer dollars.
‐‐ John Kline

The working-class Africans are not doing very well, and one of the problems is their education is so shocking. It is routinely said it is a result of apartheid. Deliberately, black people were not allowed to know too much. They could read and write a bit to be useful, but that's about it.
‐‐ Justin Cartwright

The working-class aspirations are worse now than when I was a kid - and it was pretty bad when I was a kid. Reality TV means they are being told they are no longer a working class, they're an underclass. Young lassies want to be Jordan or Jade, but very few aspire to be the next Germaine Greer.
‐‐ Peter Mullan

The working-class black Southern Christian culture I come from still nurtures me, and I mean directly, daily.
‐‐ Bell Hooks

The working class has been turned into a consuming class - a situation has been created where people value their worth by what they can afford.
‐‐ Jarvis Cocker

The working class is my home country, and my future is linked with the proletariat.
‐‐ Andrei Platonov

The working class of England take their deracination completely for granted. Disenchantment is the happy code that informs every byway of the underclass: service jobs, celebrity dreams, Lotto wins, leisured poverty on pre-crunch credit cards, it's all there, part of the story of an English people whose grandparents never had it so good.
‐‐ Andrew O'Hagan

The working class of England today have no vision of society beyond the acquisitive - no version of themselves or their habits as anything other than transitional, on their way up or on their way out. The working class, at best, is a waiting room for people who aim to become middle class if possible.
‐‐ Andrew O'Hagan

The working class owes all honor and respect to the first men who planted the standard of labor solidarity on the hostile frontier of unorganized industry.
‐‐ Ralph Chaplin

The working class will not halt until socialism has been realized.
‐‐ Ernst Toller

The working classes in England were always sentimental, and the Irish and Scots and Welsh. The upper-class English are the stiff-upper-lipped ones. And the middle class. They're the ones who are crippled emotionally because they can't move up, and they're desperate not to move down.
‐‐ Tracey Ullman