Americans are terrified because so many of them have been laid off in recent years and months and they fear that they may be next. Even if they have not been laid off or have not known anyone laid off, they definitely know someone who has lost his home.
I believe most Americans want their next President to remind them of the guy they work with, not the guy who laid them off.
He who has not first laid his foundations may be able with great ability to lay them afterwards, but they will be laid with trouble to the architect and danger to the building.
If you've been laid off, you know how it goes: Everything you thought you knew and liked about yourself gets called into question.
Many of the best teachers I know are being laid off because their unions value seniority over intellect, passion, creativity, and drive.
I'm in show business. I'm not like a poor factory worker who'd been laid off.
I had been laid off from 'Entertainment Weekly 'right before I started writing 'Gone Girl.'
I was 22 years old, actually, incidentally had just been laid off from my job and I had a dog. My parents just didn't understand any of it.
I have never laid a brick in my life. But my people have laid more bricks than anybody else put together. Because I know how to pay.
Extending federal unemployment insurance is vital for millions of Americans laid off through no fault of their own, and it serves as an important economic stimulus.
I've been pulled out of my nice new car and laid out in the street by the police, interrogated and then have them get in the car and roll off leaving me lying in the street without even saying 'Get up.' The humiliation that they can put on a black man because they determine that you ain't got the money.
There is nothing more fundamental for public workers to know if they are going to be partly laid off.
If I'm known as the girl that lost weight and it's been six years later and I've still kept off the 110 pounds, God bless. Because I never kept off 100 pounds before in my life.
I've been working very hard off-off-off-off-off-off-off Broadway and doing little films and really sweating my butt off in tiny little black boxes.
Anyone with a grain of sense would know that if I punched my wife I would rip her head off. It's all lies. I have never laid a finger on her.
Off camera, I'm, like, chill and very laid-back. I don't know if the word is 'shy,' but 'reserved.' I'm always thinking.
Ben Battle was a soldier bold, and used to war's alarms, But a cannon-ball took off his legs, so he laid down his arms.