You never shrink in stature by lifting someone else up.

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

— Michael Pollan

He that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Life's perhaps the only riddle That we shrink from giving up.

— W. S. Gilbert

You can't shrink your way to greatness!

— Seth Godin

You take the lies out of him, and he'll shrink to the size of your hat; you take the malice out of him, and…

— Mark Twain

I think shrinks are interesting to write about because you get to see what the character chooses to reveal, and what behaviors or stances…

— Jill Davis

I don't know what a shrink would call me. I don't want to know.

— Tori Amos

Without their money, the Jews will shrink into mere shadows of themselves, and the nightmare will be over.

— Israel Shamir

It is there, at the foot of the cross, that we shrink to our true size.

— John Stott

We don't need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.

— Rand Paul

I'm a pretty psycho-obsessed shrink.

— Robert Englund

When we shrink from the world, our souls shrink, too,

— Paul Rogat Loeb

The ministry is a weight from which even an angel might shrink

— Saint Augustine

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

— Michael Bennet

I pride myself on how little space I take up. I am going to shrink and shrink until I am a dry fall leaf,…

— Julie Gregory