Shrinking Quotes

114 quotes by 103 authors

True humanity consists not in a squeamish ear; it consists not in starting or shrinking at tales of misery, but in a disposition of heart… — Charles James
History has shown that a government's redistribution of shrinking wealth, in preference to a private sector's creation of new sources of it, can prove more… — Victor Davis Hanson
Sin has a way of shrinking God down and puffing ourselves up. — Louie Giglio
With that gentleness I can be bold; with that economy I can be liberal; shrinking from taking precedence of others, I can become a vessel… — Laozi
When you are frightened, you typically pull energy in to your center, seeing less, hearing less-shrinking consciousness precisely when you need to expand it. — Nathaniel Branden
Shrinking someone's stomach to the size of a walnut with surgery is one way to battle obesity and diabetes and may be lifesaving for a… — Mark Hyman, M.D.
It seems that the increased number of scientific workers, their being split up into groups whose studies are limited to a small subject, and over-specialization… — Alexis Carrel
The energy crisis has not yet overwhelmed us, but it will if we do not act quickly. It's a problem that we will not be… — Jimmy Carter
Oh, I don't object, of course, to cutting wood from necessity, but why destroy the forests? The woods of Russia are trembling under the blows… — Anton Chekhov
Where you see immigration competition play out most clearly is among high school dropouts. I'd say there's clearly immigrant competition among the least-skilled workers, but… — Jared Bernstein
We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to… — Theodore Roosevelt
People are afraid, and when people are afraid, when their pie is shrinking, they look for somebody to hate. They look for somebody to blame.… — Henry Louis Gates
The conversation on global warming has been stalled because a shrinking group of denialists fly into a rage when it's mentioned. — Al Gore
The enemy fought with savage fury, and met death with all its horrors, without shrinking or complaining: not one asked to be spared, but fought… — Davy Crockett
For a long time I wanted to draw, but I could never get the proportions right. My still life sketches were the artistic equivalent of… — Sloane Crosley
There will never be another Ed Koch. He was an original, but he represented a significant, if shrinking, segment of American Jewry who refused to… — Alan Dershowitz
There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive. — Eric Hoffer
If left unchecked, global change will create violent conflict, torrential storms, shrinking coastlines, and irreversible catastrophe. — Valerie Jarrett
Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose. — Carl Jung
Negotiations over a shrinking pie are especially difficult because they require an allocation of losses. People tend to be much more easygoing when they bargain… — Daniel Kahneman

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