Quotes About Voluntary Work

#1. It was always women who took care of everything to do with children and school. They were the ones who went to parents' evenings, they were the ones who signed the slips children took home, they were the ones who did voluntary work and made sure school trips and so on were paid for.

Karl Ove Knausgard

#2. My mate asked me "What do you think of voluntary work?" I said "I wouldn't do it if you paid me."

Tim Vine

#3. Ever since I was quite young, I was in St. John's Ambulance or the Red Cross; latterly, I've been involved in voluntary work with the mentally handicapped and Abbeyfield Old People's Homes.

Nicholas Winton

#4. Only the unloved hate; the unloved and the unnatural.

Charlie Chaplin

#5. Free-market capitalism is a network of free and voluntary exchanges in which producers work, produce, and exchange their products for the products of others through prices voluntarily arrived at.

Murray Rothbard

#6. 30 or 40 of such voluntary gentlemen would do more in a day than 100 of the rest that must be press'd to it by compulsion.

John Smith

#7. Realism, I think, is fleeting. It's the romance that will live forever.

Graham Moore

#8. There's a kind of tension that if I'm getting a story right I can feel right away, and I don't feel that when I try to write a novel. I kind of want a moment that's explosive, and I want everything gathered into that.

Alice Munro

#9. I like your story," I say, running my hand up his sweater. "Happy endings are sexy." Ford grins. "When you say shit like that, I can't believe you don't hear how fucking dirty you sound.

Bijou Hunter

#10. Never have so many given so much for so long for so little for so few for so seldom.

Neil Simon

#11. If David Bowie wants, I'll put him in my phone book.

Mads Mikkelsen

#12. The course that will restore to the workmen a father's duties and responsibilities, between which and themselves the state has now stepped, is for them to reject all forced contributions from others, and to do their own work through their own voluntary combinations.

Auberon Herbert

#13. As I look back on those days, most people in Chicago felt that way. Chicago was host to the world at that time and we were part of it all.

Erik Larson

#14. This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half.

George Orwell

#15. Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.

Bill Gates

#16. Funny how ready people are to believe that counseling, which even when voluntary takes years to modify garden-variety neuroses, can work wonders in months with resistant patients who hate each other.

Katha Pollitt

#17. You must change in order to survive..

Pearl Bailey

#18. And he's supposed to be a marine biologist!

ALBERT WHITMAN

#19. Play is always voluntary. What might otherwise be play is work if it's forced.

Bob Black

#20. She wondered how Dr. Watson - a clever man in his own right - had lasted so many years without bashing his roommate over the head out of sheer frustration.

Emma Jane Holloway

#21. Return of love, more blest may be the view;
As call it winter, which being full of care,
Makes summer's welcome thrice more wish'd, more rare.
Sonet56

William Shakespeare