Top 36 World Shrinking Quotes
#1. The world is shrinking as we see more and more of it in the media, and the more we see of the world, the smaller we are, the more aware we are of how insignificant any one of us is.
Jock Sturges
#2. As president, I watched in wonder as Nelson Mandela had the remarkable capacity to forgive his jailers following 26 years of wrongful imprisonment - setting a powerful example of redemption and grace for us all.
George H. W. Bush
#3. The beauty of Twitter is that more and more people are flocking to it because it's shrinking their world.
Dick Costolo
#4. The world is shrinking into a kind of technological funnel. I think people are drawn into their technological devices, and this becomes a kind of subjective universe, into which much of the rest of the world simply does not enter.
Don DeLillo
#5. Not everybody has to be a parent. In fact, in an overpopulated world where our resources are shrinking, it would be wonderful if people who didn't want children felt free to say so. In the 1970s, there was more tolerance for the idea that not everybody needs to be a biological parent.
Erica Jong
#6. The world is shrinking together; it is finding itself neighbor to itself in strange, almost magic degree.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#7. Their detectors, like everything else about them and their small, shrinking world, were always looking for the wrong weapons, Sem thought as he began to sharpen his pencil.
Jason Heller
#8. When it comes to letting the world in on the secrets of his heart, he has about as much shrinking reticence as a steam calliope.
P.G. Wodehouse
#9. The playoffs are the playoffs. You just play who is put in front of you.
Steve Nash
#10. He advises them that tough lands produce tough peoples, so, if they wish to retain the empire he has enabled them so spectacularly to gain, they must not even think about removing themselves to some softer, enervating environment.
Herodotus
#11. Jesus. I do not wanna be called a vampire n-word.
Andrea Portes
#12. I think you can't deny that because the cochlear implant exists, the signing world is shrinking.
Andrew Solomon
#13. the world was shrinking, sympathies changing;
Barack Obama
#14. Most of us are shrinking in the face of psycho-social and physical poisons, of the toxins of our world. But compassion, the generation of compassion, actually mobilizes our immunity.
Joan Halifax
#16. You do not grow in holiness because of the praise you receive, nor do you become evil because of the blame poured upon you.
Thomas A Kempis
#17. Ultimately, I hoped the tiny-house guy was similar to me: a sane person without a big agenda, who simply wanted a way to make sense of the world, to create a new map with a big X in the middle labeled "Home," even if that meant shrinking his world down to the size of an area rug.
Dee Williams
#18. The world is the expanding Greece and Greece is the shrinking world.
Victor Hugo
#19. When I first came out of Argentina to Europe, the flight took 36 hours. Now it takes 12 hours, and the world is still shrinking.
Juan Manuel Fangio
#20. You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us.
Marianne Williamson
#21. I used to think that humor was the only way to appreciate how wonderful and terrible the world is, to celebrate how big life is. But now I think the opposite. Humor is a way of shrinking from that wonderful and terrible world.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#22. More than ever, the world needs good engineers. However, the pool of talent is shrinking not growing.
Dean Kamen
#23. You playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightening about shrinking so others won't feel insecure around you. As you let your own light shine, you indirectly give others permission to do the same.
Marianne Williamson
#24. In this shrinking world, it is futile to seek safety behind geographical barriers. Real security will be found only in law and in justice.
Harry S. Truman
#25. A greedy insistence that the whole of nature and life must present itself to our voracious demand for instantaneous intelligibility is a symptom of all world-shrinking ideology, whether religiously fundamentalist or scientifically materialist. In
John F. Haught
#26. The world is sagging, snagging, scaling, spalling, pilling, pinging, pitting, warping, checking, fading, chipping, cracking, yellowing, leaking, stalling, shrinking, and in dynamic unbalance.
Donald Barthelme
#27. Most people don't like change. They revolt against it unless they can clearly see the advantage it brings. For that reason, when good leaders prepare to take action or make changes, they take people through a process to get them ready for it.
John C. Maxwell
#28. He slipped away slowly, withdrawing from this world by small, imperceptible degrees, and in the end it was as if
he were a drop of water evaporating in the sun, shrinking and shrinking until at last he wasn't there anymore.
Paul Auster
#30. The world was different in the morning. Quiet, unassuming, and somehow bigger, as if it was brimming with possibility. It was, she thought, as if during the day the world went through a shrinking process, gradually condensing the morning's expansion, only to inflate again during the night
H.J. Gerald
#31. The fort.
Where the pair stored their painted scenes and books of made-up languages, their two-man band, and the tiny matchbox bed plus accessories that they made in case, someday, their experiments in the world of shrinking finally panned out.
Michelle Cuevas
#32. Neurosis may be called a negating of possibilities; it is the shrinking up of one's world. The development of the self is this radically curtailed.
Rollo May
#33. Dogma and shrinking from the external world are at one limit of the range of belief. At the other are science and poetry and, indeed, reality.
Muriel Rukeyser
#34. I live in a shrinking world where the only thing I can trust is Maven's obsession. Like the manacles, it is a shield and a slow, smothering death.
Victoria Aveyard
#36. The sense of alienation that inspires wonder, awe and fear in us is enough of a proof that life does not belong to the planet Earth.
Raheel Farooq
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