Shirk Quotes
28 quotes by 27 authors
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The insincerity of man-all men are liars, partial or hiders of facts, half tellers of truths, shirks, moral sneaks. When a merely honest man appears…
— Mark Twain
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To be an artist, one must . . . never shirk from the truth as he understands it, never withdraw from life
— Diego Rivera
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Leadership happens at every level of the organization and no one can shirk from this responsibility.
— Jerry Junkins
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No occupation in this world is more trying to soul and body than the care of young children. What patience and wisdom, skill and unlimited…
— Isabella Macdonald Alden
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Know that the science of unveiling has no end to it, for it consists in the journey of the intellect in the stations of Majesty,…
— Ibn Ata Allah
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[F]or the most part football these days is the opium of the people, not to speak of their crack cocaine. Its icon is the impeccably…
— Terry Eagleton
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Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that.... The real job of every moral teacher is…
— C.S. Lewis
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I am not ashamed to use the word class. I will also plead guilty to another charge. The charge is that people belonging to my…
— Walker Percy
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For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
— Bertolt Brecht
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A scrupulous writer in every sentence that he writes will ask himself. . . What am I trying to say? What words will express it?...And…
— George Orwell
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I took upon myself to enact the part of a poor, unfortunate crazy girl, and felt it my duty not to shirk any of the…
— Nellie Bly
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Poet and sculptor, do the work, / Nor let the modish painter shirk
— William Butler Yeats
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You say yes to the sunlight and pure fantasies, so you have to say yes to the filth and the nausea. Everything is within you,…
— Hermann Hesse
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Willful sterility is, from the standpoint of the nation, from the standpoint of the human race, the one sin for which the penalty is national…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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My desire to devolve authority has nothing to do with a wish to shirk responsibility.
— Dalai Lama
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If something is being done on a secret basis in national security, that's a great reason for elected officials to not talk about it. And…
— Rachel Maddow
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While President Obama shirks his responsibility to advance solutions to our fiscal challenges, he can no longer hide from the merciless math of the balance…
— Paul Ryan
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The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the…
— H.G. Wells
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I have had my dance with Folly, nor do I shirk the blame; I have sipped the so-called Wine of Life and paid the price…
— Eugene O'Neill
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Clap! Snap! the black crack! Grip, grab! Pinch, nab! And down down to Goblin-town You go, my lad! Clash, crash! Crush, smash! Hammer and tongs!…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
Who Wrote These Shirk Quotes
27 authors contributed a total of 28 Shirk Quotes, led by these top contributors: