The wounded limb shrinks from the slightest touch; and a slight shadow alarms the nervous. [Lat., Membra reformidant mollem quoque saucia tactum:… — Ovid Copy Share Image
Don't ever let anyone tell you that something is too competitive. Once you subtract the people who don't work very hard, or… — Maggie Mason Copy Share Image
There is no labor from which most people shrink as they do from that of sustained and consecutive thought; it is the… — Wallace D. Wattles Copy Share Image
To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare fail, that failure is his world and the shrink from desertion,… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
I am weary of a task which is done and I hope I shall not shrink when the aftermath ends. My only… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
So often do you see collegians enter life with high resolve and lofty purpose and then watch them shrink and shrink to… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
We have this wild life experience that is full of fantastic minutiae and banal, huge events at the same time. Yet, all… — Bryan Fuller Copy Share Image
All of us have inflated views of ourselves, especially in self-righteousn ess, until we have visited a place called Calvary. It is… — John Stott Copy Share Image
We're born into a certain family, nation, class. But if we have no connection whatsoever with the worlds beyond the one we… — Elif Safak Copy Share Image
During the last five years, those four advantages-costs, products, people, goodwill-have been the salvation of Interface during a recession that saw our… — Ray Anderson Copy Share Image
The desire of excellence is the necessary attribute of those who excel. We work little for a thing unless we wish for… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
We need to ensure that the government agencies that are supposed to be regulating the financial system are actually doing their jobs.… — Carly Fiorina Copy Share Image
In a sense, knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows, for details are swallowed up in principles. The details for knowledge which are important,… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Old-fashioned determinism was what we may call hard determinism. It did not shrink from such words as fatality, bondage of the will,… — William James Copy Share Image
An executive cannot gradually dismiss details. Business is made up of details and I notice that the chief executive who dismisses them… — Harvey S. Firestone Copy Share Image
To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life's salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that's vanished! To endure,… — Joanna Baillie Copy Share Image
A public school-educated stockbroker, who wants to shrink the state and let the markets rip, who reinvented himself as a man of… — Brian Reade Copy Share Image
More and more money is being extracted from of the production and consumption economy to pay the FIRE sector. That's what causes… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
I am not myself apt to be alarmed at innovations recommended by reason. That dread belongs to those whose interests or prejudices… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Republicans don't want to shrink government. They want more and more military, more and more surveillance. They'd like to have the government… — John Zerzan Copy Share Image
There are in every generation those who shrink from the ultimate sacrifice, but there are in every generation those who make it… — Patrick Pearse Copy Share Image
There is no evidence that government under Republicans will shrink. It's simply a question of what the government will do and who… — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
Raised voices lower esteem. Hot tempers cool friendships. Loose tongues stretch truth. Swelled heads shrink influence. Sharp words dull respect. — William Arthur Ward Copy Share Image
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
The corporation that shrinks from the light" would have anything to fear from government. About the welfare of such corporations we need… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
When the Sun shrinks to a dull red dwarf, it will not be dying. It will just be starting to live and… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
When we inject people with positivity, their outlook expands. They see the big picture. When we inject them with neutrality or negativity,… — Barbara Fredrickson Copy Share Image
Oh, that the wise from their bright minds would kindle Such lamps within the dome of this dim world That the pale… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Unless the trade deficit shrinks, the combination of the trade deficit and the interest and dividend payments to foreigners will grow ever… — Martin Feldstein Copy Share Image
I demand from you deeds of mercy which are to arise out of love for me. You are to show mercy to… — Mary Faustina Kowalska Copy Share Image
Men who shrink from penetration of the female body are paralyzed by justifiable apprehension, since they are returning to our uncanny site… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Where now is Britain? . Even as the savage sits upon the stone That marks were stood her capitols, and hears The… — Henry Kirke White Copy Share Image
Here feel we but the penalty of Adam, The seasons' difference, as the icy fang And churlish chiding of the winter's wind,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
[On Jane Austen:] To believe her limited in range because she was harmonious in method is as sensible as to imagine that… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
... everyone's free to embark on either a great clipper or a little fishing boat. An artist is an explorer who oughtn't… — George Sand Copy Share Image
They are surely to be esteemed the bravest spirits who, having the clearest sense of both the pains and pleasures of life,… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
Every syllable that can be struck out is pure profit, and every page that can be economised is a five-per-cent dividend. Nature… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
I pride myself on how little space I take up. I am going to shrink and shrink until I am a dry… — Julie Gregory Copy Share Image
People envision [looking inside the brain] as being very difficult. You had to take a spaceship, shrink it down, inject it into… — Christopher deCharms Copy Share Image
In fact he enables us not by making us supernaturally strong, but by opening our eyes. The Holy Spirit is that power… — John Taylor Copy Share Image
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![“[On Jane Austen:] To believe her limited in range because she was harmonious in method is as sensible as to imagine that when the Atlantic Ocean is as smooth as a mill-pond it shrinks to the size of a mill-pond.” quote by Rebecca West](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/8d4/rebecca-west-1248_atlantic-ocean_on-jane-austen-to-believe-her-limited-in_215037.jpg)
![“People envision [looking inside the brain] as being very difficult. You had to take a spaceship, shrink it down, inject it into the bloodstream.” quote by Christopher deCharms](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/b9d/christopher-decharms-64848_brain_people-envision-looking-inside-the-brain_1983594.jpg)
