Shrinks Quotes

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

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

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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

— Ogden Nash

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

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

— Michael Hudson

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

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

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

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

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

— Michael Pollan

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

— Ovid

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

— Carly Fiorina

Health care is much the same - the status quo is, by all measures, failing far too many people - and we…

— Michael Bennet

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

— Henry Hazlitt

That which shrinks must first expand.

— Laozi

The little babies are missing their families from their past lives. The babies have old souls and the old souls have to…

— Akhil Sharma

Only if you reach the boundary will the boundary recede before you. And if you don't, if you confine your efforts, the…

— Hugh Nibley

As we grow older, our capacity for enjoyment shrinks, but not our appetite for it.

— Mignon McLaughlin

See skulking Truth to her old cavern fled, Mountains of Casuistry heap'd o'er her head! Philosophy, that lean'd on Heav'n before, Shrinks…

— Alexander Pope

Wilderness is a resource which can shrink but not grow.

— Aldo Leopold

The [liberals] consider profits as objectionable. The very existence of profits is in their eyes a proof that wage rates could be…

— Ludwig von Mises

Television is a new, hard test of our wisdom. If we succeed in mastering the new medium it will enrich us. But…

— Rudolf Arnheim

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

— Saint Augustine

The great end of prudence is to give cheerfulness to those hours which splendour cannot gild, and acclamation cannot exhilarate; those soft…

— Samuel Johnson

[On Jane Austen:] To believe her limited in range because she was harmonious in method is as sensible as to imagine that…

— Rebecca West