Top 21 Quotes About White Collar Jobs
#1. You're not a saint. You're a demon. Own up to it.
Julie Kagawa
#2. His megawatt smile ramped up a few volts.
Holly Ford
#3. I believe the world grows near its end, yet is neither old nor decayed, nor will ever perish upon the ruins of its own principles.
Thomas Browne
#4. I think psychotherapy saves lives and is hugely meaningful and I think that one of the unfortunate aspects of prescription drugs working well is that people tend to think that's enough.
Kay Redfield Jamison
#5. I did a bunch of blue-collar jobs, because I knew I'd wind up with a white-collar job at some point, and I wanted to, I don't know, I just wanted to taste life. I dug graves for a while, I worked as a stock boy in a big department store, I worked in a bank.
Graydon Carter
#6. I was a member of the Armed Services Committee for 18 years. I spent a big chunk of my life studying national security issues and our role in the world.
John Kasich
#7. The flaw in our character is our insistence on separating blue-collar jobs from white-collar jobs, and encouraging one form of education over another.
Mike Rowe
#8. The typical socialist ... a prim little man with a white-collar job, usually a secret teetotaler and often with vegetarian leanings.
George Orwell
#9. Although he too was heading to work, Shahid was glad he wasn't dragging himself off to some office job. Shahid's view: anybody who had to wear a suit to work died a little inside, every day.
John Lanchester
#10. When change is necessary, not to change is destructive!
A.R. Bernard
#12. In the 1960s, you had this booming economy, and you didn't really have enough men around to fill all the jobs. So there was this sudden demand that women come back and perform a lot of the white-collar and pink-collar roles that men had done before or that hadn't existed before.
Gail Collins
#13. Much of what is euphemistically known as the middle class, merely because it dresses up to go to work, is now reduced to proletarian conditions of existence. Many white-collar jobs require no more skill and pay even less than blue-collar jobs, conferring little status or security.
Christopher Lasch
#14. Part of the reason that women go to college is to get out of the food service, clerical, pink-collar ghetto and into a more white-collar job. That does not necessarily mean they are being paid more than the blue-collar jobs men have.
Gloria Steinem
#15. The people's safety is the law of God.
James Otis
#16. If blue collar jobs are leaving and white collar jobs are outsourced what color collar jobs are left?
Bob Edwards
#17. If you don 't have explanation of what's happening around the world... I think somebody else knows perfectly well what's happening out there.
Deyth Banger
#18. As I stood on the lonely backroad, I'm sure I heard birds, kookaburras, laughing ...
Steven Herrick
#19. Most people recognize that many blue-collar jobs pay more than white-collar jobs. Few act on that recognition.
Venkatesh G. Rao
#20. There is a sacredness in tears....They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition and of unspeakable love.
Washington Irving
#21. When white-collar people get jobs, they sell not only their time and energy, but their personalities as well. They sell by the week, or month, their smiles and their kindly gestures, and they must practice that prompt repression of resentment and aggression.
C. Wright Mills
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