Conservatism... offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
The conclusion of design flows naturally from the data; we should not shrink from it; we should embrace it and build on… — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
Seeing my malevolent face in the mirror, my benevolent soul shrinks back. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
I propose to beg no question to shrink from no conclusion, but to follow truth wherever it may lead. — Henry George Copy Share Image
... the Athenian lawmaker Solon decreed it a crime for any citizen to shrink from controversy. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Without its daydreams, the self is apt to shrink down to the size and shape of the estimation of others — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
I've learned that I shouldn't shrink from success. Though honestly I thought they'd be knocking on my door years ago. — Ariel Pink Copy Share Image
Clothing sales plummet, rent delinquencies mount and even grocery sales shrink as gamblers, having tapped out their entertainment budgets, dip into dollars… — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
I'm always giving myself the Alzheimer's test. My shrink told me to do this. It takes one minute. You name every word… — Ray Romano Copy Share Image
If you've invested money in buying a piece, you don't want it to just disintegrate. We all have that first wash anxiety,… — Giles Deacon Copy Share Image
The tax rate increases reduce economic growth; they shrink the pie; they cause more poverty, more despair, more unemployment, which are all… — Arthur Laffer Copy Share Image
Ah, but depression - that is what we all hate. We the afflicted. Whereas the relatives and shrinks, the tribal ring, they… — Kate Millett Copy Share Image
Ooo,” said Alexia, fascinated, “it shrinks back down again. The books didn't detail that occurrence.” The earl laughed. “You must show me… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
In fact, in the early days of the Republican primary, I was pointing to Governor [Scott ] Walker as the one guy… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Overloading attention shrinks mental control. Life immersed in digital distractions creates a near constant cognitive overload. And that overload wears out self-control. — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
As a population, if a large number of people make even small moves to eat less meat and more plant-based foods, the… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
I try to believe in as many as six impossible things before breakfast. Count them, Alice. One, there are drinks that make… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
I overcame my fears and troubles simply by praying and learning to calm down when scary things were happening - I formed… — Kelly Cutrone Copy Share Image
Are people crazy? People waited all their lives. They waited to live, they waited to die. They waited in line to buy… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
When all has been considered, it seems to me to be the irresistible intuition that infinite punishment for finite sin would be… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
If we seek merely swollen, slothful ease and ignoble peace, if we shrink from the hard contests where men must win at… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The little babies are missing their families from their past lives. The babies have old souls and the old souls have to… — Akhil Sharma Copy Share Image
It must be so,-Plato, thou reasonest well! Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality? Or whence this… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
As we grow older, our capacity for enjoyment shrinks, but not our appetite for it. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Will we fulfill God's purpose, or will we shrink back and live a comfortable, self-centered life? — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
Memory shrinks until it fits in a fist memory shrinks without forgetting — Fady Joudah Copy Share Image
A liar would be brave toward God, while he is a coward toward men; for a lie faces God, and shrinks from… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the… — William James 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
[T]he only way to shrink the trade deficit is for the government to prohibit us from buying whatever we want. — John Stossel Copy Share Image
We live in an interdependent world. Every time you cut off somebody else's opportunities, you shrink your own horizons. — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Visiting old haunts is hard on memory. Things shrink, change, and disappear. — Shirley Temple Copy Share Image
It may often be noticed, the less virtuous people are, the more they shrink away from the slightest whiff of the odour… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
The type of religion which rejoices in the pious sound of traditional phrases, regardless of their meanings, or shrinks from "controversial" matters,… — John Gresham Machen Copy Share Image
The United States plays, for the most part, a constructive global role, and to the extent that that role shrinks, other countries,… — Michael Mandelbaum Copy Share Image
. . . for beauty stands In the admiration only of weak minds Led captive. Cease to admire, and all her plumes… — John Milton Copy Share Image
A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Twitter and social media have so changed the game for filmmakers, but especially for artists. It shrinks the world and gives chance… — Gina Prince-Bythewood Copy Share Image
Art bids us touch and taste and hear and see the world, and shrinks from what Blake calls mathematic form, from every… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image