Famous quotes containing the words shirk and/or center:
“For once you must try not to shirk the facts:
Mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.”
—Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956)
“Children can’t be a center of life and a reason for being. They can be a thousand things that are delightful, interesting, satisfying, but they can’t be a wellspring to live from. Or they shouldn’t be.”
—Doris Lessing (b. 1919)