Shrank Quotes

23 quotes by 20 authors

Day after day we looked for rain, and day after day we saw nothing but the sun. Lavender that we had planted in the spring… — Peter Mayle
As we got further and further away, it [the Earth] dimished in size. Finally it shrank to the size of a marble, the most beautiful… — James Irwin
Not she with trait'rous kiss her Saviour stung, Not she denied him with unholy tongue; She, while apostles shrank, could danger brave, Last at his… — Eaton Stannard Barrett
Charlie and I decided long ago that in an investment lifetime, it's too hard to make hundreds of smart decisions. That judgment became ever more… — Warren Buffett
We can bear the heavy load without asking to have it lightened. We can keep the sorrow now and endure it. We can go on… — J.R. Miller
The whole forest was peopled with frightful sounds-the creaking of the trees, the howling of wild beasts, and the yell of Indians; while sometimes the… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
My existence shrank from an arrow of light pointing into the future forever to a speck of light that was the present moment. I got… — Sarah Manguso
For a decade or more after the Vietnam war, the people who had guided the U.S. to disaster decently shrank from the public stage. — James Fallows
Under the administration of George W. Bush, you will recall, federal spending grew pretty significantly. At the same time, the number of people directly employed… — Thomas Frank
...A change fell upon all things. Strange brilliant flowers, star-shaped, burst out upon the trees where no flowers had been before. The tints of the… — Edgar Allan Poe
The hand descended. Nearer and nearer it came. It touched the ends of his upstanding hair. He shrank down under it. It followed down after… — Jack London
He shrank from hearing Margaret's very name mentioned; he, while he blamed her--while he was jealous of her--while he renounced her--he loved her sorely, in… — Elizabeth Gaskell
Percy Jackson," Hermes said, "because you have taken on the curse of Achilles, I must spare you. You are in the hands of the Fates… — Rick Riordan
...yet, even before he left the room, - and certainly, not five minutes after, the clear conviction dawned upon her, shined bright upon her, that… — Elizabeth Gaskell
Silence. How long it lasted, I couldn't tell. It might have been five seconds, it might have been a minute. Time wasn't fixed. It wavered,… — Haruki Murakami
The heavy eyelids snapped open. Jack froze. A huge gold-and-amber eye, as big as a dinner plater, stared at him. The dark pupil shrank, focusing.… — Ilona Andrews
The universe shrank to Curran and his pain. I had to break him free. Nothing else mattered. — Ilona Andrews
if Iâ€™d been hit with the same thing as Glenn, I probably had his doctor. The thought seemed about right when Glenn shrank back in… — Kim Harrison
I will stand by you. You must not be afraid. This is a brave land, Susanna, founded by brave people who never shrank from their… — Ann Rinaldi
It was a perfectly normal May Day, but Sophie was scared of that too. And when a young man in a fantastical blue-and-silver costume spotted… — Diana Wynne Jones

Who Wrote These Shrank Quotes

20 authors contributed a total of 23 Shrank Quotes as follows: