As a guiding principle, life shrinks and life expands in direct proportion to your willingness to assume risk. — Casey Neistat 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
I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of… — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
...greatness sympathises with greatness, and littleness shrinks into itself. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“Philosophy, that leaned on Heaven before, Shrinks to her second cause, and is no more.” — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The words spoken by the leader of the free world can expand the frontiers of freedom or shrink them. — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
“I have found that as your wisdom and maturity develop, the number of other people you blame for your own circumstances shrinks.” — Steve Maraboli 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
Who feels injustice, who shrinks before a slight, who has a sense of wrong so acute, and so glowing a gratitude for… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
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
Camera phones threaten to turn everyone into amateur paparazzi. We are witnessing our personal space shrink because of the way technology is… — Daniel J. Solove Copy Share Image
Deflation is a leakage from this circular flow, to pay banks and the real estate, called the FIRE sector - finance, insurance… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The mounting burden of taxation not only undermines individual incentives to increased work and earnings, but in a score of ways discourages… — Henry Hazlitt 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
To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The American dream is shrinking because some of our leaders want it to shrink. Decline, in other words, has become a policy… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
The bud, though plucked, would not be withered, only transplanted to a fitter soil to ripen and blow beneath a brighter sun;… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
If the youth is content to abandon his previous associates and to throw in his lot whole-heartedly with the rulers, he may,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
In the hollow tree, in the old gray tower, The spectral Owl doth dwell; Dull, hated, despised, in the sunshine hour, But… — Bryan Procter Copy Share Image
poverty is like a pain, dormant and unbearable as long as you don't move about too much. You grow used to it,… — Gabrielle Roy Copy Share Image
No matter what you do next, the world needs your energy, your passion, your impatience for progress. Don't shrink from risk. And… — Tim Cook Copy Share Image
We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller. We say to girls: 'You can have ambition, but not too much.… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
An executive cannot gradually dismiss details. Business is made up of details and I notice that the chief executive who dismisses them… — Harvey S. Firestone Copy Share Image
Breastfeeding is amazing; you can actually feel your stomach shrink with every feed. — Melanie Brown Copy Share Image
It is there, at the foot of the cross, that we shrink to our true size. — John Stott Copy Share Image
He that shrinks from the grave with too great a dread, has an invisible fear behind him pushing him into it. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
My world did not shrink because I was a black female writer. It just got bigger. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Celtic jerseys are not for second best, they don't shrink to fit inferior players — Jock Stein Copy Share Image
For liberty to expand, government must shrink. For the economy to grow, government must get out of the way. — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
[T]he only way to shrink the trade deficit is for the government to prohibit us from buying whatever we want. — John Stossel Copy Share Image
Visiting old haunts is hard on memory. Things shrink, change, and disappear. — Shirley Temple Copy Share Image
We live in an interdependent world. Every time you cut off somebody else's opportunities, you shrink your own horizons. — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Do not falter or shrink; But just think out your work, And just work out your think. — Nixon Waterman Copy Share Image
A liar would be brave toward God, while he is a coward toward men; for a lie faces God, and shrinks from… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
As we grow older, our capacity for enjoyment shrinks, but not our appetite for it. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Will we fulfill God's purpose, or will we shrink back and live a comfortable, self-centered life? — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
Memory shrinks until it fits in a fist memory shrinks without forgetting — Fady Joudah Copy Share Image
Without its daydreams, the self is apt to shrink down to the size and shape of the estimation of others — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
... the Athenian lawmaker Solon decreed it a crime for any citizen to shrink from controversy. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image