A Quote by James Agee

I suspect the fault...is in me: that I hate any job on earth, as a job and a hindrance and a semi-suicide.

James Agee

Quote Topics

Any Earth Fault Hate Hindrance I Hate Job Me Suicide Suspect

Quote Author

James Agee
American - Novelist
November 27, 1909 - May 16, 1955

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Peggy McIntosh

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Alexandra Elbakyan

Always suspect any job men willingly vacate for women.

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Those who count on quote 'Hollywood' for support need to understand that this industry is watching very carefully who's going to stand up for them when their job is at stake. Don't ask me to write a check for you when you think your job is at risk and then don't pay any attention to me when my job is at stake.

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Hyman Rickover

Job is perhaps the oldest piece of literature known to man. How did Job know the Earth is suspended in space? Job could only know through divine inspiration.

Adrian Rogers

I don't want to be the center of attention, which is ironic. I hate having all eyes on me - unless it's for my job, and my job is playing football. I'm not that attention-hungry.

Cam Newton

I see danger—awake! It's terrible, it's horrible, and it's almost here! This is why my spirit was sent to earth. This is the job God has given me. This is the job I must do, so my hands will be free of your blood.

Frank Bruno

People who are the salt of the earth get up and go to a job that they hate.

Gene Simmons

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Christopher Dodd

If you don't have the good fortune to work a lot then you take any job you get offered, whether it's a good job, fun job, a bad job, horrible job, whatever, you just take what you need to take. But I'm lucky in that - at the moment anyway and hopefully forever, but who knows - I get the chance to pick jobs for the kick of it and the fun.

James McAvoy

My first job was at Proctor and Gamble in Cincinnati, my second job was at a pharmaceutical company in Berkeley Heights, New Jersey. My third job was at Palmolive. And I realized, three jobs in three years, maybe it wasn't the job. It had to be me.

Dee Rees

Some people go to their job. That's the job they have; they have to do it. They hate their boss and their coworkers, this and that. It's hard to get along.