Unemployed Quotes - Page 3

• The lack of education and lack of skills don't hurt the unemployed, they hurt America and American business, making us less competitive in the global market.

  Robert Stempel

  Education, Hurt, Business

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• The late John Jacob Astor, a personage little given to poetic enthusiasm, had no hesitation in pronouncing my first grand point to be prudence; my next, method. I do not speak it in vanity, but simply record the fact, that I was not unemployed in my profession by the late John Jacob Astor; a name which, I admit, I love to repeat, for it hath a rounded and orbicular sound to it, and rings like unto bullion. I will freely add, that I was not insensible to the late John Jacob Astor's good opinion.

  Herman Melville

  Love, Vanity, Names

  Herman Melville (2006). “Bartleby the Scrivener: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.2, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The things they have actually accomplished all over America should be an inspiration to every reasonable person and an everlasting answer to all the grievous insults that have been heaped on the heads of the unemployed.

  Harry Hopkins

  Inspiration, America, Answers

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• I grew up in the 30s with an unemployed father. He didn't riot; he got on his bike and looked for work and he kept looking 'til he found it.

  Norman Tebbit

  Father, Grew Up, Found

  Speech to the Conservative Party Conference, October 15, 1981.

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• Worse there cannot be; a better, I believe, there may be, by giving energy to the capital and skill of the country to produce exports, by increasing which, alone, can we flatter ourselves with the prospect of finding employment for that part of our population now unemployed.

  Joseph Hume

  Country, Believe, Skills

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• Ward Churchill might be more valuable to the opponents of the academic left employed than unemployed. Above all, he can serve as a living window into the intellectual, moral, and political bankruptcy of the left.

  Mort Kondracke

  Political, Intellectual, Opponents

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• For those that are working part time, in small businesses, or who are unemployed and do not currently have health insurance, we want to make sure that you are covered.

  Valerie Jarrett

  Want, Small Business, Covered

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• I'm an unemployed teacher right now and I'm looking for a place to teach.

  Bobby Knight

  Sports, Teacher, Retirement

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• Normally if I met a guy who was unemployed and illiterate who hadn't bathed in a couple of weeks, I'd be standing in a puddle with excitement, but I'm sort of in a bad mood tonight, so take this bag and give me the fu**ing paper before I pop your head like a zit. He said, you're a lesbian, aren't you?

  Christopher Moore

  Couple, Giving, Guy

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• You know, if I listened to Michael Dukakis long enough, I would be convinced we're in an economic downturn and people are homeless and going without food and medical attention and that we've got to do something about the unemployed.

  Ronald Reagan

  Long, People, Politics

  "Ronald Reagan".

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• After a while, if you are sufficiently bored or unemployed, you may want to read it from cover to cover.

  Leonard Cohen

  Bored, May, Want

  Leonard Cohen (2008). “Book of Longing”, p.196, McClelland & Stewart

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• I should tell my story. I'm also unemployed ... I'm networking. I have my sight on a particular job.

  Mitt Romney

  Jobs, Sight, Networking

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• In this society the young people from the cities and from the countryside, professionals or not, often unemployed, have all means to join and reinforce our efforts to raise the brave torch of Human Rights that illuminates the way in which the future of us all is decided.

  Martin Almada

  Future, Mean, Rights

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• Don't ever rob a bank. Enjoy life. Have fun. Choose to be happy now; don't wait until you're 'successful,' because honestly, I was as happy when we were unemployed and scrounging around for a buck.

  Peter Farrelly

  Graduation, Fun, Successful

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• Dying in the line of duty is heroic, but dying while unemployed is just stupid.

  Tsugumi Ohba

  Stupid, Dying, Lines

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• Dear God. Not only am I unemployed and homeless, but I also have a pregnant woman, bereaved dog, elephant, and eleven horses to take care of.

  Sara Gruen

  Dog, Horse, Elephants

  Sara Gruen (2016). “The Sara Gruen Collection: Water for Elephants - At the Water's Edge - Ape House”, p.296, Hachette UK

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• We want to change the way we help unemployed people find jobs. We want to be faster and more goal oriented.

  Gerhard Schroder

  Jobs, People, Goal

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• Without in any way minimising the economic and psychological blow that people experience when they lose their jobs, the unemployed in affluent countries still have a safety net, in the form of social security payments, and usually free healthcare and free education for their children. They also have sanitation and safe drinking water.

  Peter Singer

  Country, Jobs, Children

  "Tackling poverty in hard times" by Peter Singer, www.theguardian.com. March 15, 2009.

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• Gainfully unemployed, very proud of it, too.

  Charles Baxter

  Teacher, Retirement, Work

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• You don’t want a general houseworker, do you? Or a traveling companion, quiet, refined, speaks fluent French entirely in the present tense? Or an assistant billiard-maker? Or a private librarian? Or a lady car-washer? Because if you do, I should appreciate your giving me a trial at the job. Any minute now, I am going to become one of the Great Unemployed. I am about to leave literature flat on its face. I don’t want to review books any more. It cuts in too much on my reading.

  Dorothy Parker

  Jobs, Book, Reading

  Dorothy Parker (1970). “A month of Saturdays: thirty-one famous pieces by "Constant Reader"”

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• In a very weak economy, when you say 'cut government spending,' what you mean is you're laying off school teachers and you're de-funding various programs that put money into the economy. This means you have more unemployed people that then draw unemployment benefits and don't pay taxes.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Teacher, School, Mean

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• Night was coming on in, borrowing the light. It had started out borrowing just a few cents worth of the light, but now it was borrowing thousands of dollars worth of the light every second. The light would soon be gone, the bank closed, the tellers unemployed, the bank president a suicide.

  Richard Brautigan

  Suicide, Night, Light

  Richard Brautigan (1964). “Richard Brautigan's A Confederate General from Big Sur, Dreaming of Babylon, and The Hawkline Monster: Three Books in the Manner of Their Original Editions”, p.101, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Money often determines not only who gets elected, but what gets done. Which voices do lawmakers listen to, the banks or home owners, coal companies, or asthma sufferers, the CEOs or the unemployed?

  Madeleine M. Kunin

  Home, Voice, Coal

  "Occupy Congress" by Madeleine M. Kunin, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 9, 2011.

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• ‎"I feel certain that Conservatism is through unless Conservatives can demonstrate and communicate the difference between being concerned with [the unemployed, the sick without medical care, human welfare, etc.] and believing that the federal government is the proper agent for their solution.

  Barry Goldwater

  Believe, Government, Differences

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• Being unemployed is even more disastrous for individuals than you'd expect. Aside from the obvious harm - poverty, difficulty paying off debts - it seems to directly affect people's health, particularly that of older workers.

  James Surowiecki

  People, Debt, Poverty

  "No End in Sight". www.newyorker.com. April 30, 2012.

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