The world wants the kind of men who do not shrink from temporary defeats in life; but come again and wrestle triumph… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I wish that we could tumble them in the dryer for 30 minutes and get them to shrink, but that won't happen. — Bob Hartley Copy Share Image
We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller. We say to girls 'You can have ambition, but not too much'. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
You take the lies out of him, and he'll shrink to the size of your hat; you take the malice out of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
No matter what the shrinks, or the pundits, or the self-help books tell you, when it comes to love, it's luck. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Cowards shrink from toil and peril, Vulgar souls attempt and fail; Men of mettle, nothing daunted, Persevere till they prevail. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Does a man shrink from change? Why, what can come into being save by change? — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Don't shrink to meet the expectations of others, grow to become the person you want to be. — Kris Carr Copy Share Image
Who feels injustice, who shrinks before a slight, who has a sense of wrong so acute, and so glowing a gratitude for… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
What I know for sure is this: You are built not to shrink down to less, but to blossom into more. To… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
I believe we should all know each other, we human carriers of so many pleasurable differences. To not know is to doubt,… — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
“Growing numbers of people, in their work, come into contact with a diminishing fragment of reality; as their world shrinks, so does… — Ivan Klíma Copy Share Image
I loathe hair salons. People have always told me I am in the wrong business because I can't stand getting my hair… — Erin Wasson Copy Share Image
As soon as somebody demonstrates the art of flying, settlers from our species of man will not be lacking on the moon… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
Before the first press pictures, the ordinary man would visualize only those events that took place near him, on his street or… — Gisele Freund Copy Share Image
When I was young, my father was lord Of a small kingdom: a wife, a garden, Kids for whom his word was… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
War, even in the best state of an army, with all the alleviations of courtesy and honor, with all the correctives of… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
Madness in Civilization is a brilliant, provocative, and hugely entertaining history of the treatment and mistreatment of the mentally ill. Packed with… — Dirk Wittenborn Copy Share Image
Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound. The man who does not… — James Allen Copy Share Image
“I once had a patient who was convinced that his head was full of sea water and a crab lived inside. When… — Michael Robotham Copy Share Image
Here, the churches seemed to shrink away into eroding corners. They seem to have ceased to be essential parts of American life.… — Sean O'Casey Copy Share Image
Seek the truth in all fields, and in that search you will need at least three virtues: courage, zest and modesty. The… — Hugh B. Brown Copy Share Image
We should not shrink from opportunities where our faith may be tried. The more I am in a position to be tried… — George Muller Copy Share Image
I wonder whether our adoption of Shrink-ese as a second language, the move from religious phrases of judgment to secular words of… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
He that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
