Cyclical Unemployment Quotes & Sayings

Putting on weight for me is really, really hard. If I stop lifting, or if I stop eating, I get skinny really quick. — Christopher Gorham

Art still followed where Rome's eagles flew. — Alexander Pope

I conclude by applying to political economy what Chateaubriand says of history: "There are," he says, two consequences in history; an immediate one, which is instantly recognized, and one in the distance, which is not at first perceived. These consequences often contradict each other; the former are the results of our own limited wisdom, the latter, those of that wisdom which endures. The providential event appears after the human event. God rises up behind men. Deny, if you will, the supreme counsel; disown its action; dispute about words; designate, by the term, force of circumstances, or reason, what the vulgar call Providence; but look to the end of an accomplished fact, and you will see that it has always produced the contrary of what was expected from it, if it was not established at first upon morality and justice.3 — Frederic Bastiat

I don't like the way he looks at you."
My stomach lurched. "What do you mean? How does he look at me?"
"Like you're not a student and he's not a teacher. — P.C. Cast

Criticism is, for me, like essay writing, a wonderful way of relaxation; it doesn't require a heightened and mediated voice, like prose fiction, but rather a calm, rational, even conversational voice. — Joyce Carol Oates

You have to give everybody another recourse as some means other than violence, no matter how distasteful it may be to have to deal with them and what they represent. — Anthony Zinni

If it's that a drink, no. If purple snow globe is a secret code word for something naughty, I'm game. — Lauren Blakely

You can always tell when something is good, because the studio senses it has something good, and you can see them pour more and more resources into it. The promotion gets bigger and bigger. — Cheech Marin

Well, I think they're going to learn that an awful lot of French people changed their minds. In 1940, the Third Republic had made a miserable mess of it. — Robert O. Paxton

Old God sure was in a good mood when he made this place. — Hunter S. Thompson

I'm not sure I ever even liked Tal, much less loved him, and by the way, Tal, I believe the Palestinians should have their own state. — Rachel Cohn

It is ourselves that we must spread under Christ's feet, not coats nor lifeless branches or shoots of trees ... — Andrew Of Crete

The image of the frontier is probably one of the oldest images of mankind, and it is not surprising that we should find it hard to get rid of. — Kenneth E. Boulding