Top 37 Quotes About Shrunken
#1. caring is not abstract. The circle of ecological compassion we feel is enlarged by direct experience of the living world, and shrunken by its lack.
Robin Wall Kimmerer
#2. It was left to Nancy and me to pick up the pieces that my brother had become; to resurrect his shrunken spirit and pull his pale tear-stained face from beneath his pillow and give sense to a world that had given him none; he loved, yet he wasn't loved back.
Sarah Winman
#3. What should be shrunken must first be stretched.
Laozi
#4. . . . a shrunken old man, squashed into the chair like a stubbed-out cigarette.
Pascal Garnier
#5. For these dances the boys send corsages, which I keep afterward and keep in my bureau drawer; squashed carnations and brown-edged rosebuds, wads of dead vegetation, like a collection of floral shrunken heads.
Margaret Atwood
#6. She ran her hands over her body as if to bid it good-bye. The hipbones rising from a shrunken stomach were razor-sharp. Would they be lost in a sea of fat? She counted her ribs bone by bone. Where would they go?
Steven Levenkron
#8. The short-term international capital market is shrunken and erratic, and cannot be relied upon to cushion the effects of tendencies to disequilibrium in the balance of payments.
Gunnar Myrdal
#9. I do not believe that, in order to be religious in the good and genuine sense of the word, one has to ruin one's love life and has to become rigid and shrunken in body and soul.
Wilhelm Reich
#10. But something had shifted, some balance. I felt shrunken, so that when he put his arms around me, gathering me up, I was as small as a doll. I felt love going forward without me.
Margaret Atwood
#11. It's true, isn't it, that each of us has two hearts? The secret heart, curled behind like a fist, living gnarled and shrunken beneath the plain, open one we use every day.
Carolyn Parkhurst
#12. When my heart is better, less shrunken, I will throw her out there to love again, without hesitation, even knowing what we know.
Jennifer Harrison
#13. Jesus knelt down by Satan's shrunken form. "Don't you wonder why I didn't kill you?" Smiling, he said, "I'm saving you for the day when you love me. It will come.
Deepak Chopra
#14. With arms shrunken to little more than bone and yellowed skin, the castaways waved and shouted,
Laura Hillenbrand
#15. This is the most important aviation development since Lindbergh's flight. In one fell swoop, we have shrunken the earth.
Juan Trippe
#17. There are freaky talking mannequins in the Salem Witch Museum that recite the Lord's Prayer and while they do resemble shrunken apples they nevertheless help the visitor understand how hard it must have been for the condemned to say the line about forgiving those who trespass against us.
Sarah Vowell
#18. On a shrunken planet where nearly every mountain bears bootprints and every mile of river has been run, being 'first' tends to require creative task definition" (111).
Jo Deurbrouck
#19. Thom Browne is like a wizard when it comes to clothes. Even though his suits are so shrunken, they feel like pajamas.
Brad Goreski
#20. The fallen hazel-nuts, Stripped late of their green sheaths, The grapes, red-purple, Their berries Dripping with wine, Pomegranates already broken, And shrunken fig, And quinces untouched, I bring thee as offering.
Hilda Doolittle
#21. I am shrunken and shriveled inside, a rotten chestnut hidden beneath a deceptively smooth shell
Laura Wiess
#22. That's what you got for being a servant of no ambition: a shrunken life, hung up like a gibbet as a warning to others.
Emma Donoghue
#23. There's only that one picture of me, standing in front of the motel door with 9 on it, long ago, a month ago. Already that child seems much younger, poorer, farther away, a shrunken, ignorant version of myself.
Margaret Atwood
#24. Earth, left silent by the wind of night,Seems shrunken 'neath the gray unmeasured height.
William Morris
#25. And people still laugh about as much as they ever did, despite their shrunken brains. If a bunch of them are lying around on a beach, and one of them farts, everybody else laughs and laughs, just as people would have done a million years ago.
Kurt Vonnegut
#26. Careful, demon. I've shrunken heads bigger than yours. Her pointed stare at the stop below his belt buckle had him growling.
Eve Langlais
#27. He was deader than a shrunken head at a Hackey Sack festival.
Scott Adams
#28. There is so much that is deaf and dumb in man, and so much that is paralyzed, so much that is shrunken, that nothing short of a miraculous touch of re-creation can make them at death perfect beings.
Henry Ward Beecher
#29. I had to fight the urge to turn on him and level my sword at the shrunken black nugget of his heart.
Chloe Neill
#30. Americans thrive on mobility and feel shrunken in spirit when they do not have it.(Odd Thomas)
Dean Koontz
#31. It was Friday but felt like a Monday and I didn't like that feeling. Fridays should give you that feeling of impending freedom but the last four days of rain had imprisoned the whole city not unlike Kandor, the city in Superman comics stolen, shrunken and placed in a bottle by Brainiac.
Rodney Lynch
#32. The force of life fills out our tissues with its pulsing vibrancy and puffs them up with the pride of being alive. Whether it departs with a bang, or a prolonged whimper, it often leaves behind an object of shrunken unrealness.
Sherwin B. Nuland
#33. The act of eating was a comfort to his shrunken belly, although a false one - the
Sara Pennypacker
#34. The vastest earthly Day Is shrunken small By one Defaulting Face Behind a Pall.
Emily Dickinson
#35. With shrunken fingers
we ate our oranges and bread,
shivering in the parked car;
though we know we had never
been there before,
we knew we had been there before.
Margaret Atwood
#36. He was in a gigantic circular bed, with a pink canopy over it. In all the luxuriant femininity of that big bedroom, George looked shrunken and misplaced, like a dead worm in a birthday cake.
John D. MacDonald
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