Shrinks Quotes

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

— Saint Augustine

Dancers dance through their pain I shrink from mine.

— Mason Cooley

It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.

— Thomas Paine

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

— Anais Nin

I don't know what a shrink would call me. I don't want to know.

— Tori Amos

I will never shrink from speaking truth to power,

— Elizabeth May

You never shrink in stature by lifting someone else up.

— Louie Giglio

Whoso shrinks from ideas ends by having nothing but sensations.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” –Anaïs Nin”

— Timothy Ferriss

“Whenever I'm with other people, part of me shrinks a little. Only when I am alone can I fully enjoy my own…

— Alan Bradley

“Psychotherapist,” I corrected. “We do the same thing as shrinks, but we use smaller words and keep our egos in check.”

— Michele Bardsley

Fame is the shade of immortality, And in itself a shadow. Soon as caught, Contemn'd; it shrinks to nothing in the grasp.

— Edward Young

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

— Ogden Nash

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

— Hal Borland

Women are socialized to be nice, to be docile. I call it 'shrink to fit': Shrink yourself to fit what others expect…

— Meg Ryan

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

— Jeremy Camp

The wounded limb shrinks from the slightest touch; and a slight shadow alarms the nervous. [Lat., Membra reformidant mollem quoque saucia tactum:…

— Ovid

Don't ever let anyone tell you that something is too competitive. Once you subtract the people who don't work very hard, or…

— Maggie Mason

There is no labor from which most people shrink as they do from that of sustained and consecutive thought; it is the…

— Wallace D. Wattles

To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare fail, that failure is his world and the shrink from desertion,…

— Samuel Beckett

More and more money is being extracted from of the production and consumption economy to pay the FIRE sector. That's what causes…

— Michael Hudson

I am not myself apt to be alarmed at innovations recommended by reason. That dread belongs to those whose interests or prejudices…

— Thomas Jefferson

I am weary of a task which is done and I hope I shall not shrink when the aftermath ends. My only…

— Winston Churchill

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

During the last five years, those four advantages-costs, products, people, goodwill-have been the salvation of Interface during a recession that saw our…

— Ray Anderson

The desire of excellence is the necessary attribute of those who excel. We work little for a thing unless we wish for…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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

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

— Carly Fiorina

Old-fashioned determinism was what we may call hard determinism. It did not shrink from such words as fatality, bondage of the will,…

— William James

In a sense, knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows, for details are swallowed up in principles. The details for knowledge which are important,…

— Alfred North Whitehead

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

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

Indeed, as we begin the twenty-first century, the money and traditional economies are slowly destroying their own support system. Increasing demands of…

— Stuart L. Hart

I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease but the doctrine of the strenuous life; the life of toil and…

— Theodore Roosevelt

At the end of their relationship she asked if they could still remain friends. His face stayed expressionless until he said "No.…

— Jonathan Carroll

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

— Rudolf Arnheim

That this is the source of our fellow-feeling for the misery of others, that it is by changing places in fancy with…

— Adam Smith

However long the horror continued, one must not get to the stage of refusing to think about it. To shrink from direct…

— Jan Struther

Human memory awakens and extinguishes at will. It dulls and sharpens actions, enlarges and shrinks those who perform them. It humbles and…

— Meir Shalev

Life's perhaps the only riddle That we shrink from giving up.

— W. S. Gilbert