Top 100 Shrink Quotes
#1. You weeel catch the korpa." "The what?" "The korpa!" I declared in dire tones. "Your private parts weeel shrink to nothink!
Leigh Bardugo
#2. In pleasure and in pain I stand not by the side of men, and thus stand by thee. I shrink to give up my life, and thus do not plunge into the great waters of life.
Rabindranath Tagore
#3. WHAT PEOPLE MAY THINK
Some people cower
and wince and shrink,
owing to fear of
what people may think.
There is one answer
to worries like these:
people may think
what the devil they please.
Piet Hein
#4. Lao-tzu, that master of the law of reversed effort, who declared that those who justify themselves do not convince, that to know truth one must get rid of knowledge, and that nothing is more powerful and creative than emptiness - from which men shrink.
Alan W. Watts
#5. While the Rose blows along the River Brink, With old Khayyam the Ruby Vintage drink: And when the Angel with his darker Draught Draws up to thee - take that, and do not shrink.
Omar Khayyam
#6. Has anybody ever written a horror pop-up book? The center of the book pops up and opens the gate to the elder gods. Of course you'll want to shrink wrap these books because you want people to buy them before they get sucked into another dimension.
Neil Leckman
#7. I don't intend to shrink from the truth, because the longer it's postponed, the harder it will be for them to accept it when they do hear it!
Anne Frank
#8. One of the psychological reasons why decent people shrink from vulgar sex discussion is because by its very nature it is not a communicable kind of knowledge ... It is too sacred to be profaned.
Fulton J. Sheen
#9. When Stephen comes into a room, the furnishings shrink from him. Chairs scuttle backwards. Joint-stools flatten themselves like pissing bitches. The woollen Bible figures in the king's tapestries lift their hands to cover their ears.
Hilary Mantel
#10. We may rightly shrink from saying that any given individual is certainly so unfaithful to light and grace as to incur the eternal loss of God, we do know that many are so. God knows who they are.
Henry Parry Liddon
#11. The day our memories become larger than our dreams is the day our soul begins to shrink. - IKE REIGHARD
Zig Ziglar
#12. Breastfeeding is amazing; you can actually feel your stomach shrink with every feed.
Melanie Brown
#13. I must be a masochist to keep putting myself in these situations. I need help. I
need to see a shrink or be locked in a padded cell or straitjacketed or something.
Stephanie Perkins
#14. I've learned that I shouldn't shrink from success. Though honestly I thought they'd be knocking on my door years ago.
Ariel Pink
#15. Well, this is going to be a fun night. How the fuck did I end up on a couples night with my shrink? Maybe I should have that drink now.
Samantha Towle
#16. I always thought Tinker bell was really cool. I'd like to be able to shrink down to a really small size and fly around to places, play tricks on people ... you know, fairy-like stuff.
Georgina Reilly
#17. The sand should be neither coarse nor fine but of a middling quality or about the size of the common pop(p)y seed. If the sand is too coarse the mortar will be short or brittle ... If the sand is too fine the cement will shrink and crack after it has been used.
Canvass White
#18. Life will either shrink or expand based on your decision to have courage.
Shannon L. Alder
#19. I don't know what a shrink would call me. I don't want to know.
Tori Amos
#20. I will shrink myself no longer to make any human feel secure
Jewel
#21. The urge to change my mind and not go at all is enormous. I'm absolutely terrified to leave on that boat. But, if I don't go, there'll be one more broken person in this world who gave up a dream to sit in a chair, pick up the TV remote and shrink.
Lexis De Rothschild
#22. She was uneasy, perturbed to her last fibre. She wanted to remain clear, with no touch on her. A wild instinct made her shrink away from any hands which might be laid on her.
D.H. Lawrence
#23. I'm not a shrink. Never been to one. Shot a couple. Don't think that counts.
Kelley Armstrong
#24. Relativity challenges your basic intuitions that you've built up from everyday experience. It says your experience of time is not what you think it is, that time is malleable. Your experience of space is not what you think it is; it can stretch and shrink.
Brian Greene
#25. Thinking is the hardest and most exhausting of all labor; and hence many people shrink from it.
Wallace D. Wattles
#26. Many billions of years will elapse before the smallest, youngest stars complete their nuclear burning and shrink into white dwarfs. But with slow, agonizing finality perpetual night will surely fall.
Paul Davies
#27. In fact he enables us not by making us supernaturally strong, but by opening our eyes. The Holy Spirit is that power which opens eyes that are closed, hearts that are unaware and minds that shrink from too much reality.
John Taylor
#28. I don't care how high my shrink increases my Lexapro dosage - I WANT TO BE A ROBOT THAT HELPS WOLVES HAVE SEX. Otherwise my parents threw away the money they spent on my college education.
Patton Oswalt
#29. Much has been given us, and much will rightfully be expected from us. We have duties to others and duties to ourselves, and we can shrink neither.
Theodore Roosevelt
#30. She could not help knowing it, the torch of her beauty; she carried it erect into any room that she entered; and after all, veil it as she might, and shrink from the monotony of bearing that it imposed on her, her beauty was apparent.
Virginia Woolf
#31. I like to shoot a lot of choices. I like a lot of stuff - and so I push to go faster, to shrink the time between the takes so that the takes are what you're spending all your time on.
Jay Roach
#32. So often do you see collegians enter life with high resolve and lofty purpose and then watch them shrink and shrink to sordid, selfish, shrewd plodders, full of distrust and sneers.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#33. No business can continue to shrink. That can only go on for so long before irrelevancy sets in.
Jeff Bezos
#34. I have a Christian worldview and so it shapes the way that I view issues. I don't apologize for that, and I don't think people of faith ought to shrink away from being in the public arena.
John Thune
#35. If you want to find out how resourceful you can be, shrink your budget. Move your deadlines up. See how you cope. This may make you more resilient to actual hardships that inevitably arise.
Reid Hoffman
#36. In Hollywood if you don't have a shrink, people think you're crazy.
Johnny Carson
#37. The world corrupts me, I think. Or perhaps it's just the weather. It pulls me down and makes me think like you, that one should shrink inside, down and down to a little point of light, preserving one's solitary soul like a flame under glass
Hilary Mantel
#38. I will never shrink from speaking truth to power,
Elizabeth May
#39. Animals of all classes, old and young, shrink with instinctive fear from any strange object approaching them.
William Henry Hudson
#40. To Ishmael, the whale's indefinite whiteness' shadows forth the heartless voids and immensities of the universe, and thus stabs us from behind with the thought of annihilation. [It's] a color-less, all-color of atheism from which we shrink.
Herman Melville
#41. Some artists shrink from self-awareness, fearing that it will destroy their unique gifts and even their desire to create. The truth of the matter is quite opposite.
James Broughton
#42. I am going to shrink and shrink until I am a dry fall leaf, complete with a translucent spine and brittle veins, blowing away in a stiff wind, up, up, up into a crisp blue sky.
Julie Gregory
#43. Y'all got your heads tucked so far up your rears, she's petrified the kid's gonna need a shrink before he can shit in a dish.
Addison Moore
#44. If we seek merely swollen, slothful ease and ignoble peace, if we shrink from the hard contests where men must win at the hazard of their lives and at the risk of all they hold dear, then bolder and stronger peoples will pass us by, and will win for themselves the domination of the world.
Theodore Roosevelt
#45. Aaron looks like a con man who got hit with a shrink ray and you look like you're going to Catholic school.
Holly Black
#46. Deflation is a leakage from this circular flow, to pay banks and the real estate, called the FIRE sector - finance, insurance and real estate. These transfer payments leave less and less of the paycheck to be spent on goods and services, so markets shrink.
Michael Hudson
#47. If you decide to do something, don't shrink from being seen doing it, even if the majority of people disapprove. If you're wrong to do it, then you should shrink from doing it altogether; but if you're right, then why worry how people will judge you?
Epictetus
#48. Don't shrink to meet the expectations of others, grow to become the person you want to be.
Kris Carr
#49. For it oft happens that a notion, when it is cloathed with words, seems tedious and operose and hard to be conceived, which yet being striped of that garniture, the ideas shrink into a narrow compass, and are viewed almost by one glance of thought.
David Berman
#50. A shrink and a patient switch roles. Who is really the boss?
Mary Papas
#51. Oh, that the wise from their bright minds would kindle
Such lamps within the dome of this dim world
That the pale name of priest might shrink and dwindle
Into the Hell from which it first was furled.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#52. You are built not to shrink down to less but to blossom into more.
Oprah Winfrey
#53. In order that one industry might grow or come into existence, a hundred other industries would have to shrink.
Henry Hazlitt
#54. The words spoken by the leader of the free world can expand the frontiers of freedom or shrink them. When Ronald Reagan called on Gorbachev to 'tear down this wall', a surge of confidence rose that would ultimately breach the bounds of the evil empire.
Mitt Romney
#55. There are certain mortal moments and minutes that matter. Certain hingepoints in the history of each human. Some seconds are so decisive they shrink the soul, while others are spent, so as to stretch the soul.
Neal A. Maxwell
#56. Only if you reach the boundary will the boundary recede before you. And if you don't, if you confine your efforts, the boundary will shrink to accommodate itself to your efforts. And you can only expand your capacities by working to the very limit.
Hugh Nibley
#57. Sometimes we shrink from leadership because our pride makes us afraid of failure. That's not humility.
Francis Chan
#58. I have prayed with the families and wept at the funerals of Hoosiers who did not shrink from 9-11 but grew into heroes whose names will forever be engraved in the heart of a grateful nation.
Mike Pence
#59. I'd shrink government in a minute, if I could shrink GM, Bank of America, and all these immoral corporations that operate by an undemocratic code, with no soul and no conscience.
Jerry Brown
#60. It's strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.
Veronica Roth
#61. Without its daydreams, the self is apt to shrink down to the size and shape of the estimation of others
Michael Pollan
#62. The debate on how to shrink the federal government is at the core of our problem of government not doing its job.
Darrell Issa
#63. As soon as somebody demonstrates the art of flying, settlers from our species of man will not be lacking on the moon and Jupiter ... Given ships or sails adapted to the breezes of heaven, there will be those who will not shrink from even that vast expanse.
Johannes Kepler
#64. I'm even taller in person, because photographs shrink you down and steal your soul native american.
Thom Yorke
#65. No. I just like dabbing girls' faces with napkins. It's a fetish of mine. Don't worry - my shrink says it's harmless.
Zoe Sugg
#66. There is no labor from which most people shrink as they do from that of sustained and consecutive thought; it is the hardest work in the world
Wallace D. Wattles
#67. I don't know how I dealt with it. I went to a shrink.
Lynn Redgrave
#69. To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare to fail ... failure is his world and the shrink from it desertion
Marcel Proust
#70. I say that no man can be greater than the man who bravely and heroically sacrifices his life for the good of others. No man can be greater than the one who meets death face to face, and yet will not shrink from what he believes to be his highest duty.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#71. If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same test.
Mary Wollstonecraft
#72. When looking at the green, divide it into quadrants. Observe which quadrant the flag is located. In your mind, shrink the green and direct your focus to the quadrant with the flag.
Darrin Gee
#73. Tex shrink-wrapped a dealer's BMW. Wrapped the whole
thing in plastic wrap and then used a portable blow drier on it
to tighten the plastic. Word
has it, it was several layers deep.
Kristen Ashley
#74. I am very curvy, so the vintage stores suit me better than most designers. I just can't seem to give up crisps, or make my boobs shrink for that matter. Alas, I will never fit a size zero.
Marina And The Diamonds
#75. The woman who can manage, like the man who can fight, must never shrink from an encounter. The knight must not disgrace his weapons.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#76. We become human only in the company of other human beings. And this involves both opening our hearts and giving voice to our deepest convictions ... When we shrink from the world, our souls shrink, too.
Paul Rogat Loeb
#77. LEIA Thou truly art in jest. Art thou not small Of stature, if thou art a stormtrooper? Does Empire shrink for want of taller troops? The Empire's evil ways, I'll grant, are grand, But must its soldiers want for fear of height?
Ian Doescher
#78. If we desire our faith to be strengthened, we should not shrink from opportunities where our faith may be tried, and therefore, through trial, be strengthened.
George Muller
#79. I grow and I shrink. I run and I crawl.
Follow my voice, though I have none at all.
I never do leave here, but I travel around
I float through the sky and I creep through the ground.
I keep my cache in a vault although I have no wealth,
Seek my decay to safeguard your health.
Richelle Mead
#80. They are surely to be esteemed the bravest spirits who, having the clearest sense of both the pains and pleasures of life, do not on that account shrink from danger.
Thucydides
#81. The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together.
Karl Marx
#82. Don't shrink. Don't puff up. Stand on your sacred ground.
Brene Brown
#83. The fact is, if our primary legislative goals are to repeal and replace the health spending bill; to end the bailouts; cut spending; and shrink the size and scope of government, the only way to do all these things it is to put someone in the White House who won't veto any of these things.
Mitch McConnell
#84. Sometimes I shrink from your knowing what I have felt for you, and sometimes I am distressed that all of it you will never know.
Thomas Hardy
#85. I'm not a detail guy. I depend on accountants and administrators to do my detail stuff for me, but I do know the overall picture and I know that if you put business people together in a room, not just politicians, they could shrink the deficit tremendously by good business tactics.
John Paul DeJoria
#86. Simplify your life. You don't grow spiritual, you shrink spiritual.
Steve Maraboli
#87. Memories shrink. Like a soap bar used over and over, they become deformed, weaker scented, too slight and slippery to hold.
Amanda Hodgkinson
#88. Sometimes it seems like there's more footnotes than text. This isn't something we're proud of, and over time we'd like to see our footnotes steadily shrink.
Barry Diller
#89. How many people have a family grave in the backyard? I'm sure I'll end up there, or I'll shrink my head and put it in a glass box in the living room. I'll get more tourists to Graceland that way.
Lisa Marie Presley
#90. Guard against the prestige of great names; see that your judgments are your own; and do not shrink from disagreement; no trusting without testing
Lord Acton
#91. The little babies are missing their families from their past lives. The babies have old souls and the old souls have to shrink to become little babies. The tears loosen their memories so they can slide away. They cry at the life they have lost, and then they cry at everything they'll forget.
Akhil Sharma
#92. At a certain age men began to shrink, and yet it was precisely at that age that their trousers became too short for them.
Howard Jacobson
#93. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
Thomas Paine
#94. If Jim Mora loses his job with the Falcons, it most likely will be because of wins and losses. Problem is, when you work for such an image-conscious owner and in the most fickle of sports towns, random acts of dumbness tend to shrink a guy's margin for error.
Jeff Schultz
#96. I mean, when I started out I was billing per hour, like a shrink because you would sit with somebody and work. But most of it, if it's for a live show it's usually a buy-out. A flat fee.
Bruce Vilanch
#97. I'm going through a stage where the dumbest things make me bawl. I feel like I need to see a shrink.
Taye Diggs
#98. The flesh would shrink and go, the blood would dry, but no one believes in his mind of minds or heart of hearts that the pictures do stop.
Saul Bellow
#99. Don't you dare
Shrink yourself
For someone else's comfort -
Do not become small
For people who refuse to grow.
N.a.
#100. When we feel unworthy, we feel powerless. When we feel powerless, we shrink. When we shrink, we attract a match to that energy.
Anella Wetter
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