Ah! mon Dieu! how the mind shrinks by loving! it is true that the soul does not, but what can one do… — Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse Copy Share Image
In a sense, knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows: for details are swallowed up in principles. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Thinking is the hardest and most exhausting of all labor; and hence many people shrink from it. — Wallace D. Wattles Copy Share Image
As a guiding principle, life shrinks and life expands in direct proportion to your willingness to assume risk. — Casey Neistat Copy Share Image
As the mind shrinks at the will of the initiate, thought flows in to fill the spaces so created. — Ian Gardner Copy Share Image
I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of… — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
“Every time a man cowers, he loses his inner peace, shrinks before himself and magnifies the oppressor.” — Augusto Branco Copy Share Image
Fear narrows the little entrance of our heart. It shrinks up our capacity to love. It freezes up our power to give… — Thomas Merton 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
To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We become human only in the company of other human beings. And this involves both opening our hearts and giving voice to… — Paul Rogat Loeb Copy Share Image
Little kids grow up discovering the world that's shown to them and then when you become a teenager, it kind of shrinks… — Kenneth Lonergan Copy Share Image
Camera phones threaten to turn everyone into amateur paparazzi. We are witnessing our personal space shrink because of the way technology is… — Daniel J. Solove Copy Share Image
Deflation is a leakage from this circular flow, to pay banks and the real estate, called the FIRE sector - finance, insurance… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
Only if you reach the boundary will the boundary recede before you. And if you don't, if you confine your efforts, the… — Hugh Nibley Copy Share Image
Again, in our enterprises we present the singular spectacle of daring and deliberation, each carried to its highest point, and both united… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
The American dream is shrinking because some of our leaders want it to shrink. Decline, in other words, has become a policy… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
Each is liable to panic, which is exactly, the terror of ignorance surrendered to the imagination. Knowledge is the encourager, knowledge that… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The bud, though plucked, would not be withered, only transplanted to a fitter soil to ripen and blow beneath a brighter sun;… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
There is a huge boom in autism right now because inattentive mothers and competitive dads want an explanation for why their dumb-ass… — Denis Leary Copy Share Image
When describing nature, a writer should seize upon small details, arranging them so that the reader will see an image in his… — Anton Chekhov 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
I learned that Canadians are furious because Canada is exporting water to the United States. Their lakes are shrinking because they're selling… — Ian Somerhalder Copy Share Image
Deference often shrinks and withers as much upon the approach of intimacy as the sensitive plant does upon the touch of one's… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
Without the support of American Jews, Israel would shrink to its normal size. — Israel Shamir Copy Share Image
Every second of time is a doorway to unbounded possibilities. Yet if you are not open to them, these possibilities shrink. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“Philosophy, that leaned on Heaven before, Shrinks to her second cause, and is no more.” — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
...greatness sympathises with greatness, and littleness shrinks into itself. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Breastfeeding is amazing; you can actually feel your stomach shrink with every feed. — Melanie Brown Copy Share Image
It is there, at the foot of the cross, that we shrink to our true size. — John Stott Copy Share Image
The things which must be, must be for the best, God helps us do our duty and not shrink, And trust His… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
The words spoken by the leader of the free world can expand the frontiers of freedom or shrink them. — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
“I have found that as your wisdom and maturity develop, the number of other people you blame for your own circumstances shrinks.” — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
The very minute a thought is threatened with publicity it seems to shrink towards mediocrity. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
My world did not shrink because I was a black female writer. It just got bigger. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Celtic jerseys are not for second best, they don't shrink to fit inferior players — Jock Stein Copy Share Image
For liberty to expand, government must shrink. For the economy to grow, government must get out of the way. — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
He that shrinks from the grave with too great a dread, has an invisible fear behind him pushing him into it. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Do not falter or shrink; But just think out your work, And just work out your think. — Nixon Waterman Copy Share Image
