Shrinking Violet Quotes

#1. I sincerely believe the banking institutions having the issuing power of money, are more dangerous to liberty than standing armies.

Thomas Jefferson

#2. His hands skim my bare arms. "Just bounce a little when you walk," he says, kissing my forehead, "and pretend you're afraid of their guns" - another kiss between my eyebrows - "and act like the shrinking violet you could never be " - a kiss on my cheek - "and you'll be fine.

Veronica Roth

#3. Before God, I'm an intimate. Before people, I'm a servant.
Before the powers of hell, I'm a ruler, with no tolerance for their influence. Wisdom knows which role to fulfill at the proper time

Bill Johnson

#4. It is not who you are that holds you back, but who you think you are not.

Aiki Flinthart

#5. I was a total athlete. I loved sports, but when I realized I wasn't going to be a professional athlete, I realized I wanted to be in movies.

Seann William Scott

#6. Belane, are you nuts?
Who knows? Insanity is comparative. Who sets the norm?

Charles Bukowski

#7. Films should be for everybody.

Antonio Banderas

#8. The great commander knows that in order to win one needs to know the remote and also the immediate reasons for the war, the capacities of the soldiers, which is to say the social and political make-up of the states, determining the variety, the quality and the character of the men.

Claudio Magris

#9. I try to be very much in control when it comes to work. I have a strong work ethic.

Alison Brie

#10. All good things ... must come to a beginning. What goes up ... may just go higher. Anything that can go wrong ... probably won't if you immerse within it.

Tom Althouse

#11. I mean it. I know Stacy thinks just because you're shy, she can step all over you, but that's B.S.

Danielle Joseph

#12. I can't remember my dreams more than a couple of seconds after I wake up. It's frustrating because sometimes I dream that I'm watching a really good movie.

Aaron Sorkin

#13. I have lived my life so frightened of pain it's been paralyzing. I hate pain, but I hate fear more, and I've eaten fear every day of my life because of the Forgetting.

Sharon Cameron

#14. I saw a button pin once that said: I'm not tense. I'm just very, very alert.

Anne Lamott

#15. I feel like you have to tell people who you are, but you don't have to be disrespectful about it. But you also don't have to be a shrinking violet.

Keke Palmer

#16. Life with three daughters can be nerve-wracking, but it's amazing to be loved by so many different women.

Laird Hamilton