Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Graham Sumner

Moreover, there is an unearned increment on capital and on labor, due to the presence, around the capitalist and the laborer, of a great, industrious, and prosperous society.

Ashley Jones

I'm really proud of an independent movie called 'Angel's Perch' that you can get now on demand. It's a labor of love. People worked really, really hard, and it's a beautiful film.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

What is there that is illustrious that is not also attended by labor?

The labor market reform was necessary for our country,

The labor market indicators turned a little more positive this summer.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

From labor there shall come forth rest.

This points out that the labor market remains as tight as ever.

C. Wright Mills

[A]s a proportion of the labor force, fewer individuals manipulate things , more handle people and symbols .

And there's a shortage of labor in New Orleans and if we don't get a lot of volunteers going down there, some of the stuff won't get done.

Donald Davidson

The Southerner does not have to labor to learn some things. We already know from the start who we are, where we are, where we belong, what we live by, what we live for.

The theme from here until after Labor Day is going to be more postponements.

Horace

The mountains will be in labor, and a ridiculous mouse will be born.

These were tremendous labor-saving devices. It opened up vast new territories.

This is a small union, and it doesn't have any allies, because it's kind of a pariah in the labor movement,

This is not a labor dispute. This is negotiations. Pemco has declared war on the workers.

Ed Hansen was one of the people who was instrumental in reviving the Labor Day celebration (in Ontonagon),

We are still seeing some slack in the labor market, in several different places.

There's no question in my mind that the labor market is improving.

There's no sign of inflation, and the labor market is still weak. There's still plenty of room from the Fed's point of view.

David Rosenberg

There's nothing in the tea leaves telling us we'll be seeing much labor-market buoyancy for several months.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Labor humanizes, exalts.

Ann Patchett

Fiction is always really a labor.

Anais Nin

To love and to labor is the sum of living.

Confucius

Learning without thought is labor lost; and thought without learning is perilous.

I don't think we're going to be able to see anything much until we at least get past Labor Day,

Thomas Graham

If it wasn't for union workers and labor unions, there would be no 40-hour work weeks, eight-hour work days, pensions or vacations,

I have labor pains right now -- I'm pregnant with all this stuff.

George W. Romney

It is morally, politically and socially wrong for business as business or labor as labor to participate directly in politics.

We have some of the weakest labor laws in the industrialized world.

Horace

It is good to labor; it is also good to rest from labor.

Overall, the labor market is improving, but progress is still slow,

We'll pick up trash first. If labor is available, we'll do more.

We have the labor. What we're going to need is the materials.