Be not afraid of absurdity; do not shrink from the fantastic. Within a dilemma, choose the most unheard-of, the most dangerous solution.… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
Natural villains are hard to come by, what with all the shrinks and social-scientist types threatening to understand everybody into the ground. — Shana Alexander Copy Share Image
Truth can be sliced a hundred different ways, and it will still remain true, but falsehood shrinks into the shadows, hoping never… — Chris Johnson Copy Share Image
We may rightly shrink from saying that any given individual is certainly so unfaithful to light and grace as to incur the… — Henry Parry Liddon 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
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
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
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
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
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
The way we get past capitalism is by building on the healthy non-capitalist aspects of our world while we also do pitched… — Cynthia Kauffman Copy Share Image
When great nations fear to expand, shrink from expansion, it is because their greatness is coming to an end. Are we, still… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Sadly, if President Obama is willing to ignore the pain of race-based discrimination and injustice so as to make whites comfortable -… — Tim Wise 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
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
... 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
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
God does not delight in our sufferings. He brings only that which is necessary, but He does not shrink from that which… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
The ugly is very appealing to man. It's instinct. One shrinks from the ugly, yet wants to look at it. There's a… — Sonya Levien Copy Share Image
When tempted, the shortest and surest way is to act like a little child at the breast; when we show it a… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
The liberal understanding of 'the separation of church and state' means that as the area of politics expands, the area of private… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
Shields Green was not one to shrink from hardships or dangers. He was a man of few words, and his speech was… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
We will not prematurely or unnecessarily risk the costs of a worldwide nuclear war in which even the fruits of victory would… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
For it oft happens that a notion, when it is cloathed with words, seems tedious and operose and hard to be conceived,… — David Berman Copy Share Image
Learn to shrink yourself to the size of the company you are in. Take their tone, whatever it may be, and excell… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Silence kills the soul; it diminishes its possibilities to rise and fly and explore. Silence withers what makes you human. The soul… — Marlon Riggs Copy Share Image
Whenever you see shrinks on television, they're so clearly written by patients. They're either idealized or they're demonized or they love their… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak; They are slaves who will not choose Hatred, scoffing,… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
On the security front, the United States must continue to play a leadership role. There simply is not another country in the… — Dan Quayle Copy Share Image
Maybe [I care about language] because I'm an editor, maybe because I'm picky, but it's all we got, don't shrink it. Don't… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Sports is about balls and about heart and you don't find too many champions in any sport in the world without heart… — Mats Wilander Copy Share Image
A digital download is not as visceral as buying a CD, removing the shrink-wrap, putting the disc in your player, and pouring… — Steve Weinstein 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 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)
![“[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)
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