Memory must be patchy; what is more alarming is its face-savingness. Something in one shrinks from catching it out - unique to… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
When I'm walking with my father through the woods, and we reach a place where you see so far that your ego… — Volker Bertelmann Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Clothing sales plummet, rent delinquencies mount and even grocery sales shrink as gamblers, having tapped out their entertainment budgets, dip into dollars… — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
Some girl asked me for an autograph and I asked her why, she said because she admires me. I said she should… — Nikki Sixx Copy Share Image
We become human only in the company of other human beings. And this involves both opening our hearts and giving voice to… — Paul Rogat Loeb 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
Again, in our enterprises we present the singular spectacle of daring and deliberation, each carried to its highest point, and both united… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
I learned that Canadians are furious because Canada is exporting water to the United States. Their lakes are shrinking because they're selling… — Ian Somerhalder Copy Share Image
There is a huge boom in autism right now because inattentive mothers and competitive dads want an explanation for why their dumb-ass… — Denis Leary Copy Share Image
When describing nature, a writer should seize upon small details, arranging them so that the reader will see an image in his… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
War, even in the best state of an army, with all the alleviations of courtesy and honor, with all the correctives of… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
Here, the churches seemed to shrink away into eroding corners. They seem to have ceased to be essential parts of American life.… — Sean O'Casey Copy Share Image
We should not shrink from opportunities where our faith may be tried. The more I am in a position to be tried… — George Muller Copy Share Image
Seek the truth in all fields, and in that search you will need at least three virtues: courage, zest and modesty. The… — Hugh B. Brown Copy Share Image
Little kids grow up discovering the world that's shown to them and then when you become a teenager, it kind of shrinks… — Kenneth Lonergan 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I believe we should all know each other, we human carriers of so many pleasurable differences. To not know is to doubt,… — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
“Growing numbers of people, in their work, come into contact with a diminishing fragment of reality; as their world shrinks, so does… — Ivan Klíma Copy Share Image
I loathe hair salons. People have always told me I am in the wrong business because I can't stand getting my hair… — Erin Wasson Copy Share Image
Silence kills the soul; it diminishes its possibilities to rise and fly and explore. Silence withers what makes you human. The soul… — Marlon Riggs Copy Share Image
They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak; They are slaves who will not choose Hatred, scoffing,… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Whenever you see shrinks on television, they're so clearly written by patients. They're either idealized or they're demonized or they love their… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
The ugly is very appealing to man. It's instinct. One shrinks from the ugly, yet wants to look at it. There's a… — Sonya Levien Copy Share Image
God does not delight in our sufferings. He brings only that which is necessary, but He does not shrink from that which… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
When tempted, the shortest and surest way is to act like a little child at the breast; when we show it a… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
For it oft happens that a notion, when it is cloathed with words, seems tedious and operose and hard to be conceived,… — David Berman Copy Share Image
Learn to shrink yourself to the size of the company you are in. Take their tone, whatever it may be, and excell… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Shields Green was not one to shrink from hardships or dangers. He was a man of few words, and his speech was… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
We will not prematurely or unnecessarily risk the costs of a worldwide nuclear war in which even the fruits of victory would… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The liberal understanding of 'the separation of church and state' means that as the area of politics expands, the area of private… — Joseph Sobran 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
If Jim Mora loses his job with the Falcons, it most likely will be because of wins and losses. Problem is, when… — Jeff Schultz Copy Share Image
