“Come to think of it, Your Majesty, I believe I must still be growing. Either that, or you are shrinking.” — C.L. Wilson Copy Share Image
CHILDHOOD: The rapidly shrinking interval between infancy and first arrest on a drug or weapons charge. — Rick Bayan Copy Share Image
The world is sagging, snagging, scaling, spalling, pilling, pinging, pitting, warping, checking, fading, chipping, cracking, yellowing, leaking, stalling, shrinking, and in dynamic… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
I go where the revolution is, and the revolution is Ron Paul. Ron Paul is a champion of the Constitution. He's about… — Christine Ebersole Copy Share Image
Amongst high unemployment rates, a competitive job market and a shrinking global economy, the emerging social media industry only continues to grow. — Ryan Holmes Copy Share Image
There is no example on the planet of a successful economy with broadly shared prosperity and a shrinking, weak government. — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Today, the character of men is on a continuous decline and the clothing of women is shrinking day-to-day. — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
The conversation on global warming has been stalled because a shrinking group of denialists fly into a rage when it's mentioned. — Al Gore Copy Share Image
We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will,… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Not everybody has to be a parent. In fact, in an overpopulated world where our resources are shrinking, it would be wonderful… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
But who knows what she spoke to the darkness, alone, in the bitter watches of the night, when all her life seemed… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What is certainly true is that the American people, just like the German people, just like the British and people around the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Maybe a first love exists to reaffirm the best parts of yourself, the choices you made when you didn't worry about the… — Adriana Trigiani Copy Share Image
If you watch [The] Search for Signs of Intelligent Life [in the Universe], or The Incredible Shrinking Woman, or 9 to 5,… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
I'm confident that I'm as intelligent as many people, but I know that I'm not as intelligent as some. So in the… — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
Conservative Party membership has almost halved since David Cameron become leader. The truth is the Tories are financially reliant on, and as… — Len McCluskey Copy Share Image
Among the environmental trends undermining our future are shrinking forests, expanding deserts, falling water tables, collapsing fisheries, disappearing species, and rising temperatures.… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
I'm no shrinking violet. I played hockey until half my teeth were knocked down my throat. And I'm extremely competitive on a… — Peter Burwash Copy Share Image
It seems that the increased number of scientific workers, their being split up into groups whose studies are limited to a small… — Alexis Carrel Copy Share Image
As a general rule, when something gets elevated to apple-pie status in the hierarchy of American values, you have to suspect that… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Oh, I don't object, of course, to cutting wood from necessity, but why destroy the forests? The woods of Russia are trembling… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
One can see from space how the human race has changed the Earth. Nearly all of the available land has been cleared… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Bricks will be most serviceable if made two years before using; for they cannot dry thoroughly in less time. When fresh undried… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
The energy crisis has not yet overwhelmed us, but it will if we do not act quickly. It's a problem that we… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Nominee. A modest gentleman shrinking from the distinction of private life and diligently seeking the honorable obscurity of public office. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“Stop shrinking yourself down for people who can’t even fit themselves into the boxes they’re trying to force you into.” — Curtis Tyrone Jones Copy Share Image
In times of shrinking expectations,... everyone feels like a victim and pushes away outsiders to defend his own corner. — Oscar Handlin Copy Share Image
Sometimes expanding your game isn't better. Sometimes shrinking your game is a little bit better and really get to the things you… — Stan Van Gundy Copy Share Image
Basically, unless you're willing to write down debts and save the economy, you're going to have deflation and a steady drain in… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
In this shrinking world, it is futile to seek safety behind geographical barriers. Real security will be found only in law and… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
Most of us are shrinking in the face of psycho-social and physical poisons, of the toxins of our world. But compassion, the… — Joan Halifax Copy Share Image
The enemy fought with savage fury, and met death with all its horrors, without shrinking or complaining: not one asked to be… — Davy Crockett Copy Share Image
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
More than ever, the world needs good engineers. However, the pool of talent is shrinking not growing. — Dean Kamen Copy Share Image
With that gentleness I can be bold; with that economy I can be liberal; shrinking from taking precedence of others, I can… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm not the sort to back away from a fight. I don't believe in shrinking from anything. It's not my speed; I'm… — John Wayne Copy Share Image
“I could feel myself shrinking. I couldn't move, not even to blink or breathe. Soon I'd be nothing at all.” — Jessica Martinez Copy Share Image
“It's very odd...that some values should have this peculiarity of shrinking. You never hear of values in a picture shrinking; but rents,… — William Dean Howells Copy Share Image
When I see a paragraph shrinking under my eyes like a strip of bacon in a skillet, I know I'm on the… — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image