Shrinks Quotes

91 quotes by 83 authors

Truth can be sliced a hundred different ways, and it will still remain true, but falsehood shrinks into the shadows, hoping never to be tested,… — Chris Johnson
Grief even in a child hates the light and shrinks from human eyes. — Thomas de Quincey
How convalescence shrinks a man back to his pristine stature! where is now the space, which he occupied so lately, in his own, in the… — Charles Lamb
Seeing my malevolent face in the mirror, my benevolent soul shrinks back. — Mason Cooley
Little kids grow up discovering the world that's shown to them and then when you become a teenager, it kind of shrinks a little bit.… — Kenneth Lonergan
The liberal understanding of 'the separation of church and state' means that as the area of politics expands, the area of private freedom - religious… — Joseph Sobran
The ugly is very appealing to man. It's instinct. One shrinks from the ugly, yet wants to look at it. There's a devilish fascination in… — Sonya Levien
Every syllable that can be struck out is pure profit, and every page that can be economised is a five-per-cent dividend. Nature rebels against this… — Henry Adams
Where now is Britain? . Even as the savage sits upon the stone That marks were stood her capitols, and hears The bittern booming in… — Henry Kirke White
It is a curious thing that the more the world shrinks because of electronic communications, the more limitless becomes the province of the storytelling entertainer. — Walt Disney
Self-pity imprisons us in the walls of our own self-absorption. The whole world shrinks down to the size of our problem, and the more we… — Kevin Malarkey
Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation… — Benjamin Disraeli
Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free. — Jim Morrison
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. — Anais Nin
It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry. — Thomas Paine
A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring… — Albert Schweitzer
When a human being becomes a set of data on a website like Facebook, he or she is reduced. Everything shrinks. Individual character. Friendships. Language.… — Zadie Smith
Now when you hates you shrinks up inside and gets littler and you squeezes your heart tight and you stays so mad with peoples you… — Margaret Walker
Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows. — Alfred North Whitehead

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