#labour

At this period the enthusiasm of the amateur was fast giving way to a more steady commercial instinct, and I let no opportunity slip of improving my position, but I felt that I was still labouring under the disadvantage of not having acquired some technical profession. ↗

— Henry Bessemer

#amateur #commercial #disadvantage #enthusiasm #fast

First of all it has never been the case that I have threatened people with expulsion or that I've threatened to throw people out of the Parliamentary Labour Party. ↗

— Ron Davies

#case #expulsion #first #first of all #i

I love being in my garden. I don't plant a lot of exotic flora, but I do spend a lot of time outside doing manual labour. ↗

— Jacqueline Bisset

#doing #exotic #flora #garden #i

I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country. ↗

— Tony Blair

#change #come #country #i #i came

My dad was a labourer and my mum had exactly the same job as Noel Gallagher's mum - she was a dinner lady at our local school. Everyone comes over from Ireland and they get the same jobs. ↗

— Danny Boyle

#dad #dinner #everyone #exactly #get

The Labour Party has become consumed by collective bile towards... the Liberal Democrats. That portrays a rather nasty arrogance. ↗

— Nick Clegg

#become #collective #consumed #democrats #labour

Every day, my daddy told me the same thing. 'Once a task is just begun, never leave it till it's done. Be the labour great or small, do it well or not at all.' ↗

— Quincy Jones

#daddy #day #done #every #every day

The stark reality facing us today is that without the labour reforms, workers will get neither the income nor jobs in the face of cut-throat global economic competition. ↗

— Kim Y. Sam

#economic #face #facing #get #global

A firm, for instance, that does business in many countries of the world is driven to spend an enormous amount of time, labour, and money in providing for translation services. ↗

— Edward Sapir

#business #countries #does #driven #enormous

It is no secret that the fruits of language study are in no sort of relation to the labour spent on teaching and learning them. ↗

— Edward Sapir

#labour #language #learning #relation #secret