Willful sterility is, from the standpoint of the nation, from the standpoint of the human race, the one sin for which the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Poet and sculptor, do the work, / Nor let the modish painter shirk — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You… — Thomas Tusser Copy Share Image
The insincerity of man-all men are liars, partial or hiders of facts, half tellers of truths, shirks, moral sneaks. When a merely… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
My desire to devolve authority has nothing to do with a wish to shirk responsibility. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Never let me hear you say it's someone else's fault. It often is, but you must never shirk your own responsibility ...… — Anne Holm Copy Share Image
I took upon myself to enact the part of a poor, unfortunate crazy girl, and felt it my duty not to shirk… — Nellie Bly Copy Share Image
Madam, if your son were to come home and try to shirk duty, you ought to shut your door in his face… — Stonewall Jackson Copy Share Image
It was while I was studying philosophy that I came to understand. . . that it is no sign of moral or… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
Suffering is primarily a call for attention, which itself is a movement of love. More than happiness, love wants growth, the widening… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
There is a great deal too much in the world, of the "heavenly-mindedness" which expends itself in the contemplation of the joys… — Henry Clay Trumbull Copy Share Image
We are being tough in saying it is a duty on the unemployed in future not only to be available for work… — Gordon Brown Copy Share Image
The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts. — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
Even the wisest man grows tense With some sort of violence Before he can accomplish fate, Know his work or choose his… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
No occupation in this world is more trying to soul and body than the care of young children. What patience and wisdom,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
How we shall earn our bread is a grave question; yet it is a sweet and inviting question. Let us not shirk… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A scrupulous writer in every sentence that he writes will ask himself. . . What am I trying to say? What words… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I have had my dance with Folly, nor do I shirk the blame; I have sipped the so-called Wine of Life and… — Eugene O'Neill Copy Share Image
