What I know for sure is this: You are built not to shrink down to less, but to blossom into more. To… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
I am not myself apt to be alarmed at innovations recommended by reason. That dread belongs to those whose interests or prejudices… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The gospel confronts us with the hopelessness of our sinful condition. But we don't like what we see of ourselves in the… — David Platt Copy Share Image
“Political stress is always apt to shrink the private arena and attach it on to the public” — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
Seek the truth in all fields, and in that search you will need at least three virtues: courage, zest and modesty. The… — Hugh B. Brown Copy Share Image
Clothing sales plummet, rent delinquencies mount and even grocery sales shrink as gamblers, having tapped out their entertainment budgets, dip into dollars… — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
My world did not shrink because I was a black female writer. It just got bigger. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
The very minute a thought is threatened with publicity it seems to shrink towards mediocrity. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
People know that both my parents were shrinks so I was sort of raised in an atmosphere where there was that interest… — Jeff Goldblum Copy Share Image
I am weary of a task which is done and I hope I shall not shrink when the aftermath ends. My only… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
All the political, social, and economic improvements, all the technical progress cannot have any regenerating significance, so long as our inner life… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
Of all things that can happen to us, triumph is the most difficult to endure when we are alone. Deprived of witnesses,… — Gabrielle Roy Copy Share Image
The things which must be, must be for the best, God helps us do our duty and not shrink, And trust His… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
As a guiding principle, life shrinks and life expands in direct proportion to your willingness to assume risk. — Casey Neistat Copy Share Image
The wounded limb shrinks from the slightest touch; and a slight shadow alarms the nervous. [Lat., Membra reformidant mollem quoque saucia tactum:… — Ovid Copy Share Image
Of all the vices incident to man, lying is the most mean, most contemptible; it evinces a very weak, depraved heart, which… — Josiah Bartlett Copy Share Image
“Every time a man cowers, he loses his inner peace, shrinks before himself and magnifies the oppressor.” — Augusto Branco Copy Share Image
Women are socialized to be nice, to be docile. I call it 'shrink to fit': Shrink yourself to fit what others expect… — Meg Ryan Copy Share Image
I believe we should all know each other, we human carriers of so many pleasurable differences. To not know is to doubt,… — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
I think, when all bands start, when you're on your first album you have the benefit of hoovering up people who genuinely… — Ben Watt Copy Share Image
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
If you can stare hard at your problems, they almost always shrink or disappear, because you almost always find a better way… — Ray Dalio 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
Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life's salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that's vanished! To endure,… — Joanna Baillie Copy Share Image
