Whoso shrinks from ideas ends by having nothing but…

So often do you see collegians enter life with high resolve and lofty purpose and then watch them shrink and shrink to sordid, selfish,…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

Health care is much the same - the status quo is, by all measures, failing far too many people - and we must not…

— Michael Bennet

We need to ensure that the government agencies that are supposed to be regulating the financial system are actually doing their jobs. We must…

— Carly Fiorina

Great talents, by the rust of long disuse, Grow lethargic and shrink from what they were.

— Ovid

Without its daydreams, the self is apt to shrink down to the size and shape of the estimation of others

— Michael Pollan

We can make ourselves say the kind things that rise in our hearts and tremble on our lips - do the gentle and helpful…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

Republicans don't want to shrink government. They want more and more military, more and more surveillance. They'd like to have the government banning gay…

— John Zerzan

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

— Anais Nin

Men of science, osteologists And surgeons, beat some poets, in respect For nature,-count nought common or unclean, Spend raptures upon perfect specimens Of indurated…

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

Deflation means a slowdown of income growth. Markets shrink, new capital investment and employment also taper off, so wages decline. That is what's happening…

— Michael Hudson

All of us have inflated views of ourselves, especially in self-righteousn ess, until we have visited a place called Calvary. It is there, at…

— John Stott

The sky is now indelible ink, The branches reft asunder; But you and I we do not shrink; We love the lovely thunder.

— Ogden Nash

Why dost thou shrink from my approach, O Man? Why dost thou ever flee in fear, and cling To my false rival, Life? I…

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

The mounting burden of taxation not only undermines individual incentives to increased work and earnings, but in a score of ways discourages capital accumulation…

— Henry Hazlitt