You've heard of people calling in sick. You may have called in sick a few times yourself. But have you ever thought about calling in well? It'd go like this: You'd get the boss on the line and say, "Listen, I've been sick ever since I started working here, but today I'm well and I won't be in anymore." Call in well.
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Bei... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If it weren't for Nokia, I would have thought about calling in sick. There was nobody in the city ye... REN ZAMORA There again," said Syme irritably, "what is there poetical about being in revolt? You might as well ... G.K. CHESTERTON They ought to bury people in hospitals and let sick people get well in the cemeteries. PAUL ZINDEL When you eat too much chocolate, you get sick of it. When you drink too much champagne, you get... KHANG KIJARRO NGUYEN sick of it whatever it's called sick of the names I dedicate every pore to what's here IKKYU Everything started going in today. I've been sick all this week, coughing and hacking, and I started... ANDREW JOHNSON I have been in this town for a while...since sick peoples were called patients to now that they are ... IDDI LUKOO Im okay Im okay now. But you really need to listen to me 'cause im telling you the trut... GERARD WAY There again," said Syme irritably, "what is there poetical about being in revolt? 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OLDSTER We know well and we know chronically ill, but there is a whole bunch of gray in between where I thin... MARIE OSMOND He used you, yeah. But what if you hadn't come? My family would have run again, but we would never h... LINDA GERBER That's what's happening... zombies are out... but in hour movie... not in series. DEYTH BANGER If you treat a sick child like an adult and a sick adult like a child, everything usually works out ... RUTH CARLISLE I think we're sick of hearing about it as well, and we're sick of hearing coach talk about it, what ... JOVON JOHNSON You can set yourself up to be sick, or you can choose to stay well. WAYNE DYER A bad hair day is not a valid excuse for calling in sick. TADAHIKO NAGAO She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl... IN THE MAKING Use your heart. Understand. Learn to see things in the now, not as they were or will be, or as ... E.J. PATTEN Sir, you have but two topics, yourself and me. I am sick of both. SAMUEL JOHNSON He thought that he was sick in his heart if you could be sick in that place. JAMES JOYCE The money has been rolling in. People have been calling and we haven't even started working on fundr... MARIA MARTINEZ You were sick, but now you're well again, and there's work to do. KURT VONNEGUT You say you’re sick, huh? Well, it looks like you’ve come down with a case of bullshit. JUSTIN HALPERN Nico, you can do this," Jason said. "It might be embarrassing, but it's for the scepter." RICK RIORDAN You think you'd get sick of each other eventually. But it doesn't ever seem to get like that. ANN STROTHER And I'm here to tell you, the reaction that I'm getting around the country, people are sick ... HERMAN CAIN There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better... HENRY DAVID THOREAU Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun. FLIP WILSON When you go on book tour, you're always talking about yourself and your book from the time you g... CHRISTOPHER MOORE I have been sick, really sick, on flights in the last few weeks. And, I have been amazed by the kind... JAN DENISE I'm really sick of people calling us insane.-Brianna Miller NATASHA LARRY Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON You're calling the shots around here. I explained to this f------ moron more than two weeks ago, bef... JOHN GOTTI There are four stages of wellness, ... The first is when you are sick, the second, when you are not ... BETTY SIEGEL Age mellows some people; others it makes rotten. -Heard in Arkansas. HEARD IN ARKANSAS We really didn't know how the game would go. They were sick and I thought I might have to play harde... ADANMA EKELEDO You're - psychotic. There's something wrong with you." "I know," Benteley agreed. "I'm a ... PHILIP K. DICK When you're sick, you think that money doesn't matter. I wanted him to get well. ERICA MCLEAN It's a weird thing to say you want people to be sick of your song, but I guess that's what h... VANCE JOY Mental illness People assume you aren’t sick unless they see the sickness on you... EMM ROY Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the si... SUSAN GRIFFIN It's a funny world, Hobbes." "True." "But it's not a hilarious world.…unless you like si... BILL WATTERSON People are taking it well, but it's hard. We have people here who started working on our first runs ... DAVID ROOT I have had demanding jobs since I was 18 years old. I have had two sick days in all my working life. MARIELLA FROSTRUP Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fu... FLIP WILSON Jacob just wasn't himself tonight. He's been sick and so we didn't start him, but I thought he could... CHRIS MATTHEWS Maybe when I'm not playing well I can get sick of golf. But then I get back into it again. EVAN NEEDHAM You know nothing says love like a man holding a bucket, waiting for you to hurl into it." SHERRILYN KENYON You get sick of coming here and losing -- knowing you don't even have a chance to win. It [says] som... AUBREY HUFF There have been times I've felt so much art in my soul I grew sick of artists. CRISS JAMI Though I have to admit, I had a good laugh when I realized you thought I was a bloodsucker." He smil... ALYSON NOEL I just didn't expect him to wake up in the morning (and be) sick. I didn't expect that. He was a wel... ALTA FOX The danger today is in believing there are no sick people, there is only a sick society. FULTON J. SHEEN I've told you I don't live and die by the polls. Thus, I will refrain from pointing out that we're n... , IN THE NEW REPUBLIC She knows her job; I just tried to keep her as fresh as possible. We still have to monitor her daily... LAUREN HOUGH Isn't it weird," I said, "the way you remember things, when someone's gone?" What do you mean?"... SARAH DESSEN Like a comet pulled from orbit, As it passes a sun. Like a stream that meets a boulder, ... STEPHEN SCHWARTZ You have no business being sick-every one of you should get well and get up and go to work, huh? Get... AIMEE MCPHERSON You have no business being sick-every one of you should get well and get up and go to work, huh? Get... AIMEE SEMPLE MCPHERSON You get skinnier, well then you don't get sick as much as you normally would. I mean it makes you he... AARTI BHAT They were very sick that day. It's unfortunate, but that can happen to any team on any given day...I... GREG ZOPATTI Poor Dick, eats like a well man, and drinks like a sick BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The physician's highest calling, his only calling, is to make sick people healthy -- to heal, as it ... SAMUEL HAHNEMANN But he was sick of this charade. Sick of watching people lose a little more of their humanity each d... BROM Why do you call her 'love'?" James asks. "I've heard you say that before, too. A lot. Are you in lov... TAHEREH MAFI The first time I was ever called ugly, I was thirteen. It was a rich friend of my brother Carlton's ... KATHRYN STOCKETT He was going to call in sick today but he wanted to make more money for the holidays. LORETTA ABLES Adrian shook his head, still smiling. "I've said over and over, I'd do anything for you. I just keep... RICHELLE MEAD You are part of my existence, part of myself. You have been in every line I have ever read, since I ... CHARLES DICKENS Have you ever been in love?" I ask, turning on my side to look at him. He stares up at the sky. Blin... TAHEREH MAFI They are sick in their minds. They say they brought 65 tanks into center of city. I say to you this ... MOHAMMED SAEED AL-SAHAF The bike's working well and we're able to put in good consistent lap times. My final position s... ANDREW PITT New year resolutions you can actually keep!
Skip more classes in school.
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TOM ROBBINS Who knows how to make love stay?Tell love you are going to the Junior's Deli on Flatbush Avenue in B... TOM ROBBINS Logic only gives man what he needs...Magic gives him what he wants. TOM ROBBINS The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only ... TOM ROBBINS When life demands more of people than they demand of life - as is ordinarily the case - what results... TOM ROBBINS To achieve the impossible; it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought. TOM ROBBINS The afternoon passed more slowly than a walnut-sized kidney stone. TOM ROBBINS Using words to describe magic is like using a screwdriver to cut roast beef TOM ROBBINS Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide. TOM ROBBINS I've decided to take advantage of outsourcing. My next novel will be written by a couple of guys... TOM ROBBINS To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being. TOM ROBBINS On their sofas of spice and feathers, the concubines also slept fretfully. In those days the Earth w... TOM ROBBINS The brutal truth is, we're scarcely 'educating' children at all. Even if you overlook th... TOM ROBBINS Whether a man is a criminal or a public servant is purely a matter of perspective. TOM ROBBINS Alas, Gulietta, this was an American frog of the last quarter of the twentieth century, a time when ... TOM ROBBINS There are two kinds of people in this world: Those who believe there are two kinds of people in this... TOM ROBBINS Conversation between a princess and an outlaw: "If I stand for fairy-tale balls and dragon bai... TOM ROBBINS There are landscapes in which we feel above us not sky but space. Something larger, deeper than sky ... TOM ROBBINS If you believe in peace, act peacefully; if you believe in love, acting lovingly; if you believe eve... 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