Shirked Quotes

#1. In the 2000 election, George W. Bush, who had shirked military service, succeeded in presenting himself as more reliable on national security than Al Gore.

Samantha Power

#2. The miracle left him dumbfounded, that his heart had not yet shirked its weary task of pumping his bored blood through his brain.

Janny Wurts

#3. Each one of us must live the life God gives him; it cannot be shirked.

Sophocles

#4. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

W. Somerset Maugham

#5. I felt I was duty-bound under contract to stick with Cleveland, and I can truthfully say, in all my playing days there and everywhere, I never shirked a duty to baseball.

Joe

#6. In the beginning of the war, Southern women wanted their men to leave - in droves, and as quickly as possible. They were the Confederate Army's most persuasive and effective recruitment officers, shaming anyone who shirked his duty to fight.

Karen Abbott

#7. I had long wanted to write a love story, and I had long - wisely, I felt - shirked the challenge because I felt it the hardest story of all to write.

Richard Flanagan

#8. That which is truly human no generation learns from the one before it. No generation learns from another how to love. No generation has a shorter task assigned to it except insofar as the previous generation shirked its task and deluded itself.

Soren Kierkegaard

#9. And yet what manner of man would I be, who has so much to say in the contest of words, if now I shirked this contest of blood?

Geraldine Brooks

#10. A man is only as faithful as his options.

Chris Rock

#11. It is the deep urge to be one with the whole, the deep urge to dissolve I and thou into one unity. Love is that because we are separated from our own source, out of that separation the desire arises to fall back into the whole, to become one with it.

Rajneesh

#12. Problems come to our life not to give us pain, but to make us humble, kind, strong and fearless.

Debasish Mridha

#13. It's great to get insight into the era of 80's rock-n-roll via a treasure trove
of photographs skillfully captured in front of Mark Weiss' camera lens. This
event is the perfect time capsule for Mark's work finally being released
upon the masses in 2012.

Phil Collen

#14. Jae knew she looked ridiculous. But ridiculous was safer than pretty.

Becky Allen

#15. Dogs are mute and obedient, but they have watched us and know us and can smell how pitiful we are.

Tove Jansson

#16. I feel angry that I can't be hypnotized. I'm not putting it down, and I'm not saying that it doesn't exist. I have talked to a great many people who are very good at it, but so far nobody has ever been able to hypnotize me.

Theodore Sturgeon

#17. Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so?

Karl Barth

#18. Meetings ... are rather like cocktail parties. You don't want to go, but you're cross not to be asked.

Jilly Cooper

#19. Chefs are at the end of a long chain of individuals who work hard to feed people. Farmers, beekeepers, bakers, scientists, fishermen, grocers, we are all part of that chain, all food people, all dedicated to feeding the world.

Jose Andres