Top 100 Shrink Quotes
#1. Every second, every day, every year, we fail to address demand for reproductive health and family planning services. Lives are lost, and girls' opportunities to thrive and contribute to their country's development shrink. These are real people.
Jenny Shipley
#2. Shields Green was not one to shrink from hardships or dangers. He was a man of few words, and his speech was singularly broken; but his courage and self-respect made him quite a dignified character.
Frederick Douglass
#3. But I find God to be an ineffectual shrink. He adopts the "do nothing" method of therapy. You tell him your problems and he, ah, does nothing.
Ned Vizzini
#4. It may be ordained that we have many nights and days to follow, if full of peril, but we must go on, and from no danger shall we shrink.
Bram Stoker
#5. You take the lies out of him, and he'll shrink to the size of your hat; you take the malice out of him, and he'll disappear.
Mark Twain
#6. This sounds fine with me, I like the idea of seeing a shrink once a week as maintenance. It's another chance to talk about myself without being interrupted. Plus, a shrink doesn't really know me, so I can present a more balanced picture of who I really am.
Augusten Burroughs
#7. When an answer I did not expect comes to a prayer which I believed I truly meant, I shrink back from it; if the burden my Lord asks me to bear be not the burden of my heart's choice, and I fret inwardly and do not welcome His will, then I know nothing of Calvary love.
Amy Carmichael
#8. Our goal is to shrink government to the size where we can drown it in a bathtub.
Grover Norquist
#9. I am weary of a task which is done and I hope I shall not shrink when the aftermath ends. My only wish is to live peacefully out the remaining years - if years they be.
Winston Churchill
#10. So when that Angel of the darker Drink, at last shall find you by the river-brink,
And, offering his Cup, invite your Soul forth to your Lips to quaff-you shall not shrink.
Omar Khayyam
#11. Authorities say brain cells may shrink, but they don't necessarily die. Frankly, I am cheered by the fact that something is shrinking. I'd be even more thrilled if what was shrinking affected my dress size, but you can't have everything.
Erma Bombeck
#12. As a population, if a large number of people make even small moves to eat less meat and more plant-based foods, the livestock industry will shrink. Over time, farmers will find other crops to support their livelihoods. Through such collective awakening we can make a difference in our world.
Nhat Hanh
#13. Without their money, the Jews will shrink into mere shadows of themselves, and the nightmare will be over.
Israel Shamir
#14. I've never been to a shrink. But my parents were very psychologically literate - my father had undergone Freudian analysis - and we often talked about other people in psychological terms, so I picked up a lot of that.
Toby Young
#15. As signs of inadequacy and weakness, they look on wealth as a source of stability and strength. Our proud hearts shrink from weakness, real or fancied, in all its forms, as we have already noted, and they embrace whatever looks like strength, including the goal and the reality of affluence. The
J.I. Packer
#16. Maybe some people were born with the fame gene. Like race or sexual orientation or X-Men mutations, it's simply who you are, and there isn't anything you can do about it. Perhaps it's why some people are drawn to crowds and cameras while others shrink away.
Benjamin Svetkey
#17. Walking is a great stress reliever. First, it helps get your mind off of your stressors. It also helps to lower cortisol levels, which will be especially effective anyone looking to shrink their belly in particular.
Susan J. Campbell
#18. If I had a suitcase, I would love it. I would shrink-wrap it when I traveled. I would put stickers from every place I'd ever been on it. And when I saw it on the carousel I would grab it with both hands and I'd be so happy to have it because then my adventures would really begin.
Nicola Yoon
#19. The conclusion of design flows naturally from the data; we should not shrink from it; we should embrace it and build on it.
Michael Behe
#20. Sometimes you are able to keep moving because you are not really yourself anymore. Your entire brain can shrink to one pinhead of cognition, one star in a night.
Karen Russell
#21. Happiness is just a little thing;
Humans mostly are too large for it.
If you cannot feel the joy of spring
Shrink yourself and maybe then you'll fit.
Michael Leunig
#22. For liberty to expand, government must shrink. For the economy to grow, government must get out of the way.
Rand Paul
#23. For the Christian, death is not the end of adventure but a doorway from a wold where dreams and adventures shrink, to a world where dreams and adventures forever expand.
Randy Alcorn
#24. The thing about depression is that, if you're not the one who's actually suffering from it, there's very little you can do to be proactive. If someone in your family is depressed, all you can really do is send them to the shrink, get them their meds, be gentle, and wait.
Sarah Silverman
#25. If tomorrow morning by some stroke of magic every dazed and benighted soul woke up with the power to take the first step toward pursuing his or her dreams, every shrink in the directory would be out of business.
Steven Pressfield
#26. As we expand our knowledge of good books, we shrink the circle of men whose company we appreciate.
Ludwig Feuerbach
#27. She's right in some ways. She doesn't need a shrink. But she does need to remember. I need her to remember; remember and still choose me. Choose us.
Christine Fonseca
#28. Chips will continue to shrink, of course. We, along with other semiconductor companies, are continuing to push toward the next goal of 10 nm, but going beyond 10 nm will require the development of new technologies, materials, and manufacturing processes that are still being perfected.
Henry Samueli
#29. We try, we fail, we posture, we aspire, we pontificate - and then we age, shrink, die, and vanish.
George Saunders
#30. Even our brains shrink: at the age of thirty, the brain is a three-pound organ that barely fits inside the skull; by our seventies, gray-matter loss leaves almost an inch of spare room.
Atul Gawande
#31. Could unsheathe from her arsenal a mockingly grave way of talking about things she found either portentous or frivolous. She could shrink your aspirations before your very eyes.
Khaled Hosseini
#32. The earliest portions to shrink are generally the frontal lobes, which govern judgment and planning, and the hippocampus, where memory is organized. As a consequence, memory and the ability to gather and weigh multiple ideas - to multitask - peaks in midlife and then gradually declines.
Atul Gawande
#33. I wonder if my shrink (sorry, psychiatrist) was a woman not a man I'd be in a better or worse state?
Fay Weldon
#34. It was funny how you could go somewhere and your whole life could stretch out and then you could come home and have it all shrink back to the way it was before. It was funny that it didn't stay stretched.
Jodi Lynn Anderson
#36. We may faint and we may sink
Feel the pain and near the brink
But the dark begins to shrink
When you find the one who knows
Jeremy Camp
#37. Transformation Isn't easy when most of the people in your life think you're already perfect, and want you to stay just how they see you. Try to begin a new phase, you'd better expect push-back. Try to create a whole new you, your friend list will shrink considerably.
Ellen Hopkins
#39. Surely if we knew what bitterness fate held in store, we would shrink back in fear and let the cup of life pass us by untasted.
Jacqueline Carey
#40. It's very odd ... that some values should have this peculiarity of shrinking. You never hear of values in a picture shrinking; but rents, stocks, real estate
all those values shrink abominably.
William Dean Howells
#41. Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them.
John C. Maxwell
#42. I cry all the time - at work, at the shrink's, with my lady. 'The Notebook' killed me. 'Up' destroyed me.
Chris Pine
#44. But the prize for courage will surely be awarded most justly to those who best know the difference between hardship and pleasure and yet are never tempted to shrink from danger.
Thucydides
#45. When did you shrink? You look like dehydrated shit.
Aly Martinez
#46. Health care is much the same - the status quo is, by all measures, failing far too many people - and we must not shrink from the challenge.
Michael Bennet
#47. Inside, the lies you tell become the person you become. On the outside, sun and reality shrink people back to their actual size. In here, people grow into their shadows.
Rene Denfeld
#48. I truly believe I am not afraid of death. What I shrink from, I believe, is the shame of dying as stupid and befuddled as I am.
J.M. Coetzee
#49. And if your daughter came to you, crying with hunger, would you tell her no? Would you tell her she is too fat, she wants too much, she must shrink into society? No.
Then why would you tell yourself the exact same thing? You are somebody's daughter.
Michelle K.
#50. We must continue to pursue peace through diplomacy, but we must also not shrink from our responsibility through the option of strength. We must take advantage of internal resistance and change from within Iran to avert this path of mutual destruction.
Michael McCaul
#51. I believe we should all know each other, we human carriers of so many pleasurable differences. To not know is to doubt, to shrink from, sidestep or destroy.
Gwendolyn Brooks
#52. All television ever did was shrink the demand for ordinary movies. The demand for extraordinary movies increased. If any one thing is wrong with the movie industry today, it is the unrelenting effort to astonish.
Clive James
#53. I clamp down on those memories. I embrace fresher torments. But my shrink warned me about this, how anger and depression get misassigned, and how if I don't work through shit it'll keep resurfacing in ways I don't expect.
Hugh Howey
#54. Ships and sails proper for the heavenly air should be fashioned. Then there will also be people, who do not shrink from the dreary vastness of space.
Johannes Kepler
#55. My mother wanted to shrink from my clinging, but did not.
Mason Cooley
#56. My DVD cellophane was put on by a psychiatrist. It was shrink-wrapped.
Tim Vine
#57. The sky is now indelible ink, The branches reft asunder; But you and I we do not shrink; We love the lovely thunder.
Ogden Nash
#58. Don't be afraid to hear me. Don't shrink from anything I say. I am like one who died young: all my life might have been.
Charles Dickens
#60. Why do we shrink from change? What can come into being save by change?
Marcus Aurelius
#61. When you're anonymous, other opinions shrink next to the sounds in your own head.
Dan Groat
#62. You know if we've got anything about us that hurts we shrink from anyone's touch on or near it. It holds good with our souls as well as our bodies, I reckon. Leslie's soul must be near raw - it's no wonder she hides it away.
L.M. Montgomery
#63. Do not falter or shrink; But just think out your work, And just work out your think.
Nixon Waterman
#64. Success steps: Think big. Act small. Then scale.
Failure steps: Act big. Think small. Then shrink.
Consider your next big thing a project. Get one. Get it right. No sense growing a broken system.
Richie Norton
#65. I went to a shrink once, but I caught him going to a fortune-teller so I quit.
James Caan
#67. Wilderness is a resource which can shrink but not grow ... creation of new wilderness in the full sense of the word is impossible.
Aldo Leopold
#68. I am not myself apt to be alarmed at innovations recommended by reason. That dread belongs to those whose interests or prejudices shrink from the advance of truth and science.
Thomas Jefferson
#69. I don't think life is absurd. I think we are all here for a huge purpose. I think we shrink from the immensity of the purpose we are here for.
Norman Mailer
#70. Re-claim your power, don't you dare shrink your worth for someone elses glory.
They'll attempt to sabotage your greatnes but it is you that will feel the aftermath of your unwritten story.
Nikki Rowe
#71. Looking back, retrospectively on the events of that evening, I can see the irony - the shrink whose cat ate his own tail. At the time of the incident, however, humor was not in my emotional repertoire; it was the furthest thing from my mind.
Jacqueline Simon Gunn
#72. Will we fulfill God's purpose, or will we shrink back and live a comfortable, self-centered life?
Rick Warren
#73. Perhaps when we shrink down to almost nothing, we will at last find one another. Life is, after all, very difficult. Most of us die here simply because we forget to breathe.
Paul Auster
#74. I hate often and easily. I hate, for example, people who sit with their legs splayed. People who claim to give 110 percent. People who call themselves "comfortable" when what they mean is decadently rich. You're so judgmental, my shrink tells me, and I cry all the way home, thinking of it.
Jenny Offill
#75. Sadly, far too many politicians in Washington lack the courage to do something to fix our problems. They are worried about the political implications of making the hard choices we so desperately need to cut spending and shrink government.
Matt Salmon
#76. Dancers dance through their pain I shrink from mine.
Mason Cooley
#77. No scrim, no filter, no bullshit. She wasn't all bound up in there, gagged and furious and resentful beneath some high-pitched shrink-wrapped mess of pleasantry.
Elisa Albert
#78. Sometimes it's as if I can shrink away to nothing. Sometimes I feel as pure and perfect as a ghost. The hunger, the headaches, the dizziness - these are the only things that are real.
J.P. Delaney
#79. I wish that we could tumble them in the dryer for 30 minutes and get them to shrink, but that won't happen.
Bob Hartley
#80. You know what I figured out?"
I hate this part." Dr. Martin leaned back in his chair. "It means I'm about to lose income or I'm about to learn what a crappy shrink I am." (276)
Gail Giles
#81. Some girl asked me for an autograph and I asked her why, she said because she admires me. I said she should see a shrink. Then she started crying and I started laughing.
Nikki Sixx
#82. Taxation is not charity. It is not voluntary. As we shrink the state and make government smaller, we will find that more and more people are able to take care of themselves.
Grover Norquist
#83. In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it.
John F. Kennedy
#84. He had picked up shrink talk from the women he'd met in Cambridge and understood that once a woman bares her soul there's little else she won't bare ...
Andre Aciman
#85. And she was-definitely-a woman who did not shrink from gauntlets, but stepped up to them, and said, Okay, bring it. Bring your worst. I will get back up. Every time. I will not shrivel and die. So watch out.
Dennis Lehane
#86. Teaching emotional intelligence skills to people with life-threatening illnesses has been shown to reduce the rate of recurrence, shrink recovery times, and lower death rates.
Travis Bradberry
#87. You can wash your face will cool green tea or apply it topically twice a day to draw out impurities, shrink large pores and get a healthy skin glow.
Sukhmani Grover
#88. I lived in New York for 10 years, and every New Yorker sees a shrink.
Meg Rosoff
#89. There are--plenty--without you."
"That isn't the point, Rilla-my-Rilla. I'm going for my own sake--to save my soul alive. It will shrink to something small and mean and lifeless if I don't go. That would be worse than blindness or mutilation or any of the things I've feared.
L.M. Montgomery
#90. Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.
Plato
#91. The world wants the kind of men who do not shrink from temporary defeats in life; but come again and wrestle triumph from defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt
#92. Writing isn't necessarily a gift it is a passion. You can write a one page masterpiece to 99 pages of crap. What keeps you coming back is that Zen moment when you enlightened your own self with a few cleverly arranged words and saved yourself a $200 trip to the shrink, by simply buying a #2 pencil.
Shannon L. Alder
#93. 'Game of Thrones' is taking dense novels and trying to shrink it all down to a slightly manageable series in the sense that there are so many characters and so many locations.
Jim Rash
#95. Sports is about balls and about heart and you don't find too many champions in any sport in the world without heart or balls. He might have them, but against Nadal they shrink to a very small size and it's not once, it's every time.
Mats Wilander
#96. Writing is my own personal therapy. It's cheaper than a real shrink and I get to kill people off when I grow bored of them.
Jack Tate
#97. We shrink from the contemplation of our dead bodies, forgetting that when dead they are no longer ours, and concern us as little as the hairs that have fallen from our heads.
John Lancaster Spalding
#98. Why do otherwise sane, competent, strong men, men who can wrestle bears or raid corporations, shrink away in horror at the thought of washing a dish or changing a diaper?
Frank Pittman
#99. You can say you want love, but when it comes in a form you don't understand or can't control, will you shrink from it and push it away.
Annette Vaillancourt
#100. Cowards shrink from toil and peril, Vulgar souls attempt and fail; Men of mettle, nothing daunted, Persevere till they prevail.
Dean Koontz
