As a guiding principle, life shrinks and life expands in direct proportion to your willingness to assume risk. — Casey Neistat Copy Share Image
As the mind shrinks at the will of the initiate, thought flows in to fill the spaces so created. — Ian Gardner Copy Share Image
Thinking is the hardest and most exhausting of all labor; and hence many people shrink from it. — Wallace D. Wattles Copy Share Image
Every second of time is a doorway to unbounded possibilities. Yet if you are not open to them, these possibilities shrink. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Without the support of American Jews, Israel would shrink to its normal size. — Israel Shamir Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Fear narrows the little entrance of our heart. It shrinks up our capacity to love. It freezes up our power to give… — Thomas Merton 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
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 Copy Share Image
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 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
Before the first press pictures, the ordinary man would visualize only those events that took place near him, on his street or… — Gisele Freund Copy Share Image
As soon as somebody demonstrates the art of flying, settlers from our species of man will not be lacking on the moon… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
'T is hers to pluck the amaranthine flower Of faith, and round the sufferer's temples bind Wreaths that endure affliction's heaviest shower,… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
I hate not understanding the words, because it kind of squashes the song. It shrinks the visual landscape that you've made for… — Ariel Pink Copy Share Image
The vast majority of the race whether savage or civilized, are secretly kind at heart and shrink from inflicting pain, but in… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The truth is few people “think” big and even fewer “play” big. Why? Because “big” often means big responsibilitie s, big hassles… — T. Harv Eker Copy Share Image
Behold me waiting—waiting for the knife… The thick, sweet mystery of chloroform, The drunken dark, the little death-in-life… [F]ace to face with… — William Ernest Henley Copy Share Image
Winter near the shore is cold. The wind kicks up a salty mist and elephant seals come to shore to trumpet and… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
Why dost thou shrink from my approach, O Man? Why dost thou ever flee in fear, and cling To my false rival,… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox 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
Each is liable to panic, which is exactly, the terror of ignorance surrendered to the imagination. Knowledge is the encourager, knowledge that… — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
Shakespeare possesses the power of subordinating nature for the purposes of expression, beyond all poets. His imperial muse tosses the creation like… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Celtic jerseys are not for second best, they don't shrink to fit inferior players — Jock Stein Copy Share Image
My world did not shrink because I was a black female writer. It just got bigger. — Toni Morrison 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
It is there, at the foot of the cross, that we shrink to our true size. — John Stott Copy Share Image
Breastfeeding is amazing; you can actually feel your stomach shrink with every feed. — Melanie Brown 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
“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 words spoken by the leader of the free world can expand the frontiers of freedom or shrink them. — Mitt Romney 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
When a human being becomes a set of data on a website like Facebook, he or she is reduced. Everything shrinks. Individual… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“But the prize for courage will surely be awarded most justly to those who best know the difference between hardship and pleasure… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
There is the emergence of a militarized society that now organizes itself for the production of violence. A society in which the… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in the crisis, shrink from the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Folks are always talking about 40 acres and a mule, but what we need is some psychoanalysis. Forget 40 acres in a… — LaTanya Richardson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image