[On Jane Austen:] To believe her limited in range because she was harmonious in method is as sensible as to imagine that… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Here feel we but the penalty of Adam, The seasons' difference, as the icy fang And churlish chiding of the winter's wind,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Oh, that the wise from their bright minds would kindle Such lamps within the dome of this dim world That the pale… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Unless the trade deficit shrinks, the combination of the trade deficit and the interest and dividend payments to foreigners will grow ever… — Martin Feldstein Copy Share Image
People envision [looking inside the brain] as being very difficult. You had to take a spaceship, shrink it down, inject it into… — Christopher deCharms Copy Share Image
In fact he enables us not by making us supernaturally strong, but by opening our eyes. The Holy Spirit is that power… — John Taylor Copy Share Image
Every syllable that can be struck out is pure profit, and every page that can be economised is a five-per-cent dividend. Nature… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
They are surely to be esteemed the bravest spirits who, having the clearest sense of both the pains and pleasures of life,… — Thucydides 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
How prone we are to come to the consideration of every question with heads and hearts pre-occupied! How prone to shrink from… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
Deflation means a slowdown of income growth. Markets shrink, new capital investment and employment also taper off, so wages decline. That is… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
The great end of prudence is to give cheerfulness to those hours which splendour cannot gild, and acclamation cannot exhilarate; those soft… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Debts grow and grow. And the more they grow, the more they shrink the economy. When you shrink the economy, you shrink… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
I pride myself on how little space I take up. I am going to shrink and shrink until I am a dry… — Julie Gregory Copy Share Image
People rarely win wars, governments rarely lose them. People get killed. Governments moult and regroup, hydra-headed. They use flags first to shrink-wrap… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Natural villains are hard to come by, what with all the shrinks and social-scientist types threatening to understand everybody into the ground. — Shana Alexander Copy Share Image
The highest form of success comes to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship or from bitter toil, and… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We may rightly shrink from saying that any given individual is certainly so unfaithful to light and grace as to incur the… — Henry Parry Liddon Copy Share Image
Truth can be sliced a hundred different ways, and it will still remain true, but falsehood shrinks into the shadows, hoping never… — Chris Johnson Copy Share Image
Much has been given us, and much will rightfully be expected from us. We have duties to others and duties to ourselves,… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
You stand up to bullies. Don't shrink back. You fight back with all your strength, and the press is going to have… — Barbara Boxer Copy Share Image
Authorities say brain cells may shrink, but they don't necessarily die. Frankly, I am cheered by the fact that something is shrinking.… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
When a depressed person shrinks away from your touch it does not mean he is rejecting you. Rather he is protecting you… — Dorothy Rowe Copy Share Image
Whenever there is love the woman blossoms. Without love, the woman shrinks. The men who love power never fall in love. Even… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The artificial noble shrinks into a dwarf before the noble of nature; and in the few instances (for there are some in… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The sand should be neither coarse nor fine but of a middling quality or about the size of the common pop(p)y seed.… — Canvass White Copy Share Image
Health care is much the same - the status quo is, by all measures, failing far too many people - and we… — Michael Bennet Copy Share Image
If the Earth is the size of a pea in New York, then the Sun is a beachball 50m away, Pluto is… — Wayne Hays Copy Share Image
I'd shrink government in a minute, if I could shrink GM, Bank of America, and all these immoral corporations that operate by… — Jerry Brown Copy Share Image
Now when you hates you shrinks up inside and gets littler and you squeezes your heart tight and you stays so mad… — Margaret Walker Copy Share Image
My brain and my heart are really important to me. I don't know why I wouldn't seek help to have those things… — Kerry Washington Copy Share Image
A digital download is not as visceral as buying a CD, removing the shrink-wrap, putting the disc in your player, and pouring… — Steve Weinstein Copy Share Image
Some days confidence shrinks to the size of a pea, and the backbone feels like a feather. We want to be somewhere… — Jean Hersey Copy Share Image
Sports is about balls and about heart and you don't find too many champions in any sport in the world without heart… — Mats Wilander Copy Share Image
I like to shoot a lot of choices. I like a lot of stuff - and so I push to go faster,… — Jay Roach Copy Share Image
How convalescence shrinks a man back to his pristine stature! where is now the space, which he occupied so lately, in his… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
Maybe [I care about language] because I'm an editor, maybe because I'm picky, but it's all we got, don't shrink it. Don't… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
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