Shrinks Quotes · Page 3

Time after time ... today's crisis shrinks to next week's footnote to a newly headline disaster.

— Hal Borland

We may faint and we may sink Feel the pain and near the brink But the dark begins to shrink When you…

— Jeremy Camp

He that shrinks from the grave with too great a dread, has an invisible fear behind him pushing him into it.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

Celtic jerseys are not for second best, they don't shrink to fit inferior players

— Jock Stein

“I have found that as your wisdom and maturity develop, the number of other people you blame for your own circumstances shrinks.”

— Steve Maraboli

The words spoken by the leader of the free world can expand the frontiers of freedom or shrink them.

— Mitt Romney

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

— John Stott

...greatness sympathises with greatness, and littleness shrinks into itself.

— William Hazlitt

As soon as somebody demonstrates the art of flying, settlers from our species of man will not be lacking on the moon…

— Johannes Kepler

Before the first press pictures, the ordinary man would visualize only those events that took place near him, on his street or…

— Gisele Freund

I joke around sometimes and say that the DP [director of photography] is like a shrink for the director, but there's some…

— Reed Morano

When I was young, my father was lord Of a small kingdom: a wife, a garden, Kids for whom his word was…

— Tracy K. Smith

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them…

— Stephen King

I'm always giving myself the Alzheimer's test. My shrink told me to do this. It takes one minute. You name every word…

— Ray Romano

We shrink from the contemplation of our dead bodies, forgetting that when dead they are no longer ours, and concern us as…

— John Lancaster Spalding

Poor people will do almost anything to avoid problems. They see a challenge and they run...the secret to success, my friends, is…

— T. Harv Eker

Too-broad questions, such as, "What's on your mind?" are apt to be answered "nothing" nearly one hundred percent of the time. Be…

— Marge M. Kennedy

Now imagine a world in which everyone, but especially people with power and influence, holds an expanded view of our place in…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Are people crazy? People waited all their lives. They waited to live, they waited to die. They waited in line to buy…

— Charles Bukowski

As a population, if a large number of people make even small moves to eat less meat and more plant-based foods, the…

— Nhat Hanh

We're born into a certain family, nation, class. But if we have no connection whatsoever with the worlds beyond the one we…

— Elif Safak

If we seek merely swollen, slothful ease and ignoble peace, if we shrink from the hard contests where men must win at…

— Theodore Roosevelt

When all has been considered, it seems to me to be the irresistible intuition that infinite punishment for finite sin would be…

— Lewis Carroll

It must be so,-Plato, thou reasonest well! Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality? Or whence this…

— Joseph Addison

“Philosophy, that leaned on Heaven before, Shrinks to her second cause, and is no more.”

— Alexander Pope

Deference often shrinks and withers as much upon the approach of intimacy as the sensitive plant does upon the touch of one's…

— William Shenstone

Fear narrows the little entrance of our heart. It shrinks up our capacity to love. It freezes up our power to give…

— Thomas Merton

Every second of time is a doorway to unbounded possibilities. Yet if you are not open to them, these possibilities shrink.

— Deepak Chopra

Without the support of American Jews, Israel would shrink to its normal size.

— Israel Shamir

As the mind shrinks at the will of the initiate, thought flows in to fill the spaces so created.

— Ian Gardner

Thinking is the hardest and most exhausting of all labor; and hence many people shrink from it.

— Wallace D. Wattles

I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of…

— Og Mandino

I propose to beg no question to shrink from no conclusion, but to follow truth wherever it may lead.

— Henry George

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

— Rand Paul

Conservatism... offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

— Benjamin Disraeli

When I don't write, I feel my world shrink. I lose my fire, my color.

— Anais Nin

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

Will we fulfill God's purpose, or will we shrink back and live a comfortable, self-centered life?

— Rick Warren

Memory shrinks until it fits in a fist memory shrinks without forgetting

— Fady Joudah

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

— Michael Pollan