Shrinking Quotes
114 quotes by 103 authors
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While editors and newspaper owners currently fret over shrinking readership and lost profits, they do the one thing that insures cutting their own throats; they…
— Elayne Boosler
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In times of shrinking expectations,... everyone feels like a victim and pushes away outsiders to defend his own corner.
— Oscar Handlin
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To expect ... the same service from raw and undisciplined recruits, as from veteran soldiers, is to expect what never did and perhaps never will…
— George Washington
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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our…
— Nelson Mandela
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We simply must balance our demand for energy with our rapidly shrinking resources. By acting now we can control our future instead of letting the…
— Jimmy Carter
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It sloweth age, it strengtheneth youth, it helpeth digestion, it abandoneth melancholie, it relisheth the heart, it lighteneth the mind, it quickenth the spirits, it…
— Joseph Lyons
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One can see from space how the human race has changed the Earth. Nearly all of the available land has been cleared of forest and…
— Stephen Hawking
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There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you....As we are liberated from our fear, our presence automatically liberates…
— Nelson Mandela
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America today stands poised on a pinnacle of wealth and power, yet we live in a land of vanishing beauty, of increasing ugliness, of shrinking…
— Stewart Udall
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Among the environmental trends undermining our future are shrinking forests, expanding deserts, falling water tables, collapsing fisheries, disappearing species, and rising temperatures. The temperature increases…
— Lester R. Brown
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Conservative Party membership has almost halved since David Cameron become leader. The truth is the Tories are financially reliant on, and as a result are…
— Len McCluskey
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Femininity itself has become a brand, a narrow and shrinking formula of commoditised identity which can be sold back to women who have become alienated…
— Laurie Penny
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We too often let the material things serve as indicators that we're doing well, even though something inside us tells us that were not doing…
— Barack Obama
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For we, the people, understand that our country cannot succeed when a shrinking few do very well and a growing many barely make it.
— Barack Obama
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The American dream is shrinking because some of our leaders want it to shrink. Decline, in other words, has become a policy objective. And if…
— Dinesh D'Souza
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I realized that I was connected to Africa. I wasn't just a Colored girl. I was part of a whole world that wanted a better…
— Assata Shakur
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I got overwhelmed by the magnitude of the celebrity culture in America. My background is as a news journalist, and newsrooms in the US are…
— Carl Hiaasen
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The ice sheets seem to be shrinking 100 years ahead of schedule.
— Richard Alley
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Nominee. A modest gentleman shrinking from the distinction of private life and diligently seeking the honorable obscurity of public office.
— Ambrose Bierce
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From cell phones to computers, quality is improving and costs are shrinking as companies fight to offer the public the best product at the best…
— John Shadegg
Who Wrote These Shrinking Quotes
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