Unemployed Quotations

An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.

The hardest work in the world is being out of work.

Unemployment is of vital importance, particularly to the unemployed.

Boys are lacking in female skills, dropping out of schools and ending up in jails and unemployed because they lack these skills.

It was scary, and I knew what it was like to be an unemployed actress again.

I had to think ahead. How much would I really enjoy committing five or seven years to working on this? When you're an unemployed actor offered a TV pilot, no matter who you are you're tempted by the good hunk of change to be made. It keeps you out of the unemployment line.

And it was a huge emotional thing to leave the law and become unemployed - to be a student again.

Do you have any problems, other than that you're unemployed, a moron, and a dork?

The unemployed in Greece can get a voucher and choose a training program somewhere in Europe to be retrained during this crisis and when this crisis is over, we make sure that that person hasn't fallen off the cliff and can come back into the labor market with new skills to find a job.

Unemployment is 'involuntary' when the price is above its market clearing level. Workers are unemployed because jobs are not available at the prevailing wages, period. The only recourse is to either expand the number of jobs or somehow lower the wage.

Although labor income is by far the largest component of gross national product, a job is not just a commodity. For many, work is an important reason for living. Even for those who are less fortunate in their allocation of work, being unemployed is a miserable state.

My desire to be an artist really came out of being broke and unemployed and incapable of holding a job down. That's what it was driven by for sure.

Look at the Palestinians with the huge, huge percentage of unemployed. What does that breed? Anyone who's unemployed in the world, you feel there's no meaning and there's a risk that you drift over to something desperate. Yes, we have to tackle the social problems as well.

I'm constantly paranoid that I'll be unemployed for the rest of my life... and have to go back folding shirts at the Gap, which you know... you gotta do what you gotta do.

Our businesses can't create jobs when they're losing revenue, and the unemployed can't apply for jobs when they can't pay their phone bill.

The reason I am unemployed for six months out of every year is because I have to turn down most of the films I'm offered. If I didn't, I'd only ever play a dark, satanic count on a horse.

I basically sat around unemployed in Sydney for three years straight, and the two things that saved me were the rugby league and my dog.

I was 27, an unemployed actress living in a really crappy studio apartment. I had just moved to Los Angeles alone, away from my family. I had cervical and uterine cancer and I was told that I would never be able to carry a baby.

In my view, if you have one in 10 unemployed - something is wrong with the economy whether you call it recession or not.

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.

New York is so full of the best unemployed actors on the planet.

I no longer say I'm unemployed. I say I'm unemployable. It's different. An unemployed suggests at a certain point in the future, you might be employed. That's not the case with me. I'm unemployable, and unfortunately, that's one of the bits of the web, in particular of Google.

Whenever I write about immigration, I hear heart-wrenching stories of computer workers who are unemployed and facing severe hardship.

I and haven't been unemployed for 20 years. I'm an exception to the rule.

As an actress, you're perpetually about to be unemployed. That fear - when you have two parents who worked 9-to-5 jobs and went through periods of being unemployed - is real. Those were not welcome times in my childhood.

With the lowest February unemployment rate in five years, nearly 28,500 more people working and some 5,100 fewer unemployed in Wisconsin than one-year-ago, we have strong evidence that the state's labor market is moving in a positive direction.

When you're unemployed for six months or a year, it is hard to qualify for a lease, so even the option of relocating to find a job is often off the table.

I'm always conscious of the fact that I am part of a profession that is 80% permanently unemployed. So, to be working in any sense is to be privileged.

I was unemployed for a long time, but I couldn't adjust to the hours.

There are thousands of unemployed Americans with the skills, drive and creativity needed to thrive in the current marketplace. Yet too many cannot find jobs because companies are turning to H-1B workers as a first choice, before even advertising open positions to American workers.

When this strike is over, there will be fewer jobs. The people who were unemployed prior to the strike aren't going to be the first ones back to work.

One focus for economic development is the local unemployed and underemployed,

People who are unemployed are finding it relatively easier to find jobs. All around, it's a pretty good situation for the labor market.

New unemployment figures show that more Americans are unemployed than at any time since the end of the last Bush recession. For the first time since Herbert Hoover, there may be fewer Americans with jobs at the end of a presidency than at the beginning.

Today I have a beautiful movie but five years from now - God forbid - I might not be doing anything at all. I might be unemployed and looking for a job. This is such a rollercoaster ride and I think it is good that I came into it at an older age and that I have traveled and done army service.

There are so many low-paid people who are educated that education is simply not the answer. The answer is, you will be unemployed if this is not stopped.

Jobs and job creation are priorities for every country's economy. Improving regulations is vital for all entrepreneurs and key to creating more employment opportunities. Young people looking for their first jobs and unemployed people benefit the most from such reform.

Last month, the House of Representatives passed the Veterans Opportunity to Work Act, which would provide training and assistance to unemployed veterans, and break down bureaucratic barriers preventing them from finding work. It's smart legislation that members of both parties support, and I'm pleased the Senate passed it.

I went from an unemployed actor's life to doing stand-up comedy, and that was fortuitous. It's not the usual way the crow flies, going from being in a TV sketch show to playing one of Shakespeare's finest characters, but, hey, that's the way it has happened.

Our course, then, is clear; if we desire to put an end to pauperism, or to lessen it, we should import everything we can use or sell, in order that we may employ our unemployed hands, in making the goods by which we pay for these imports.

Remember, there are still over 2 million unemployed workers and over 5 million are on part-time jobs. Christmas will be moderately better simply because last year was so bad. But unless this jobs picture improves, it's hard to say that the retail industry has finally turned the corner.

Passing this legislation will help millions of families nationwide, easing the burden that these families might otherwise experience if their unemployment insurance were to have expired on Dec. 28, 2002, ... It will help unemployed Americans feed their families and pay their bills while giving them an additional five months to find new jobs.

I was unemployed after finishing Save the Last Dance and I went out for this other role. It wasn't like, "Okay, now I'm going to do tv." It was like, I have to pay my rent and my student loan, what can I do? I'm lucky that the show is doing well, so it looks like I've got this balanced plan.

It doesn't take much. One spouse loses a job or is unemployed for even a little while.

I was never very good at being an unemployed actor. I always thought that I should have been doing something pro-active. I was never good at doing juvenile leads. I suppose it's because I have this big sarcastic head on me.

I would love to be in New York, but it's really hard to be unemployed in New York. Everyone's got a place to be. In L.A., there's a system, a science to being unemployed.

Writing was something I always liked, but it wasn't a career until I was laid off from my executive position in my 30s. I started a website because I was bored, unemployed and angry.

A jester unemployed is nobodys fool.

An unemployed jester is nobody's fool.

Unless you are wealthy, you cannot afford to act or direct one play and remain unemployed the rest of the time.

When preparing their 2001 return, there are some basic tax planning issues unemployed people don't often think of. People need to be mindful of what tax bracket they're in, which may...have changed.

With a shrinking labor pool and a lower unemployment rate, employers are going to have to find ways to train people who are unemployed to fill the jobs that are available.

The presidential-nomination system favors the unemployed or the underemployed over the fully employed.

We are exhausting the pool of the unemployed and of otherwise available workers.

Extending unemployment benefits is not only the right thing to do -- it's also the single best thing we can do to help our economy. Unemployed workers need that money -- to buy groceries, pay the rent, and keep the lights and heat on this winter,

Wolves need to act naturally, and they won't be able to do that if they are confined to the park. When they are seasonally unemployed during the winter, they will move outside the park.

What's funny about the slacker thing, people project an image of what they think a musician is: young, slack, unemployed - like a really romantic idea of a poet, writer or musician - which isn't really true a lot of the time. I don't reckon you would know anything about me if I wasn't moderately hard-working.

We will work to make the broken places right again. We will rebuild New York. We will work on a bipartisan package to strengthen the economy, ... will help unemployed workers in the airline, aerospace, tourist and other industries affected by the attack.

With five million unemployed in January, you have to ask whether any far-reaching reforms happened at all.

Boosting employment and access to training and skills for older workers and the young unemployed is one of the European Union's key objectives.

Technically, when a teacher contract ends, that teacher is counted as unemployed unless they take a part- or full-time job during the summer. When teachers sign their new contract, they're counted as employed again, thus the seasonal fluctuation in the unemployment rates throughout the state.

The most important piece of this package is unemployment and health benefits for unemployed workers, ... Nothing more important.

Actors don't do a good job worrying about their finances. It's difficult because you do not work consistently week after week. You may be very well paid for a job that lasts 10 weeks. Then you're unemployed and you haven't put any money aside.

Do you want me to send you back to where you were - unemployed in Greenland?!

Despite the fact that the unemployment rate remains low relative to prior economic downturns, the burden on the unemployed population has been the most severe, by one measure, since at least 1972.

Despite our high rate of unemployment, 300,000 jobs go unfilled largely because many of the unemployed lack the skills needed today as a result of technological progress.

And then I was unemployed for a while.

The bottom line, however, is that, while immigration and imports can significantly cushion the consequences of the wealth effect and its draining pool of unemployed workers for awhile, there are limits,

Barack Obama may have found the answer to his biggest rhetorical challenge: When millions of voters are unemployed or underemployed, how does a president simultaneously sound realistic and optimistic?

This is really a very positive surprise but unfortunately it has nothing to do with the economy. It's only a statistical effect because many people who used to be registered as unemployed are no longer included in the numbers.

A lot of people with technology and business degrees are unemployed or working in garment factories, way below what they're educated for.

Americans worry that Afghanistan has become a petri dish in which the germs of Islamic fanaticism are replicating - soon Afghans will be hijacking American planes and bombing embassies everywhere. And their fears are not necessarily unfounded. The Taliban are unemployed war veterans, ready and even eager to return to the battlefield.

They got the apartment, they got the free place to live. They got priority over the Houston unemployed right now.

The number of unemployed of Florida didn't change over the month. What we're actually seeing is there are more people entering the labor force and that's a good thing.

It's so hard to make a living as an actor, with 95% of the SAG members unemployed at one time. That includes all the different unions, too, that unless you HAVE to do it, that it's in your soul and you MUST do it you feel, don't do it.

It's certainly possible that illegal (or legal) aliens are taking some Americans' jobs, but I am not sure those who are proposing these laws have a real handle on the magnitude of that as a problem. Frankly, I am not sure it is a significant problem. What we are aware of is that there are at least 12 million aliens working in this country and we know that today there aren't 12 million unemployed Americans waiting to replace them in those jobs if they leave the U.S. work force.

It was a big wad of cash to poor people, and immigrants tend to be poor and unemployed and at higher risk for TB.

I've heard the argument that unemployment benefits somehow act as a disincentive to the long-term unemployed when it comes to looking for work, but the opposite is true. Unemployment Insurance serves as a powerful incentive for people to keep searching for jobs, rather than drop out of the labor force altogether.

They've walked out on the talks. They've walked out on unemployed workers, and they've walked out on America's economy and that is an outrage,

These subsidies would ... reduce the unemployment rate of low-skilled workers; put the paychecks of low-wage workers closer to the median scale; decrease the unemployed worker's feelings of exclusion, dependence and powerlessness; inculcate the habits of self-efficacy and self-sufficiency; and increase employees' incentive to better themselves.

I want to see then doing -- such as intervening when young people become unemployed -- but it tends to be concentrated on childhood and teenage years, and ... programs need to be made available to people over the course of their lives.

Once I was unemployed and didn't have money, you can't just go to dinner. The onus is on you to learn to cook... I learned how important the right equipment is.

A person's professional and personal identity is linked to what they do for a living. With that sense of self diminished, the unemployed person has the added stress of wondering how to make ends meet financially, especially if they have a family to support.

The jobs and growth proposals the president announced on Tuesday constitute a focused plan to increase capital formation, to encourage consumer spending, to promote small business growth, boost confidence in our markets and give critical help to our unemployed citizens, ... We urge Congress to act swiftly to pass this package.

I'm seeing darkness at the end of the tunnel. I'm not really looking forward to being unemployed again.

I'm a resident of Houston, and I was unemployed at the time, when they were talking about bringing Andy back,

If you remember, that's when I suggested the unemployed could line up outside post offices each day for work.

I remember being unemployed and walking the East Village streets for many years, constantly checking my voice mail on pay phones, hoping for an audition.

Unemployed and dependent - is not as parasite.

When blacks are unemployed, they are considered lazy and apathetic. When whites are unemployed, it's considered a depression.

We all hope we have something else to do. We're going to be unemployed actors. It's a consistent state of being a professional actor, in my experience.

I'm gonna be unemployed when people read this. Ha.

These January numbers are strong. The fact that the number of unemployed persons is down to 7,400, on a seasonally adjusted basis, must be a new cyclical low. It?s pretty remarkable that so few people are unemployed in the county.

All he does is lie there like an unemployed whale.

The idea of providing $5,000 to evacuees for job training, education and for childcare expenses during their job search is exactly the type of program that would be successful in employing the 7.5 million people unemployed every day in this country.

A growing number of unemployed Americans waste time browsing the estimated 4,000 to 5,000 online job sites, blanketing them with resumes, and then waiting for callbacks. It is a formula for long-drawn-out joblessness.

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.

We may at times be unemployed, but no one ever becomes uncalled.

Among the worries of today's business executives is the large number of unemployed still on the payroll.

The mayor did have the advantage among those who were unemployed and under 62 years old. And those areas of the city that were most impoverished solidly voted for the mayor.