Top 426 Shrink Quotes & Sayings

It is there, at the foot of the cross, that we shrink to our true size.

You can't shrink your way to greatness!

I pride myself on how little space I take up. 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.

A good butcher is important to have. It's like a shrink.

It is the business of little minds to shrink.

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.

You are built not to shrink down to less but to blossom into more.

The writer can grow as a person or he can shrink. ... His curiosity, his reaction to life must not diminish. The fatal thing is to shrink, to be interested in less, sympathetic to less, desiccating to the point where life itself loses its flavor, and one’s passion for human understanding changes to weariness and distaste.

I saw a shrink because I thought I suffered from fear of success.

The ministry is a weight from which even an angel might shrink

My DVD cellophane was put on by a psychiatrist. It was shrink-wrapped.

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.

You have to shrink yourself to fit into this little life with him.

All religions, if you shrink them down, are all about controlling women's sexuality.

Even the stout of heart shrink when they see the approach of death.

I'm a pretty psycho-obsessed shrink.

You never shrink in stature by lifting someone else up.

Life's perhaps the only riddle That we shrink from giving up.

Country music has always been the best shrink that 15 bucks can buy.

The future will be less predictable, forecast rises will shrink, company lifetimes will shrink, new entrants will proliferate and it’s going to just get more unpredictable. If you thought financial crises came and went, just count on them – another economic collapse, it’s almost going to be like not news any more. But for startups this is great, because it’s a perpetual driver of disruption.

Ah, how steadily do they who are guilty shrink from reproof!

I wonder if my shrink (sorry, psychiatrist) was a woman not a man I'd be in a better or worse state?

The future will be less predictable, forecast rises will shrink, company lifetimes will shrink, new entrants will proliferate and it's going to just get more unpredictable.

A little secret - I'm the child of a shrink. I am; my mom's a shrink, and my father's a lawyer. So believe me, I analyze and negotiate. That is a huge amount of the director's work, especially when you're working with people who - such a variety.

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.

When we shrink from the world, our souls shrink, too.

I'm really small, so I think if I shrink, I'd turn into a puddle.

I write instead of going to the shrink!

I go to the dentist, not a shrink.

Thinking is the hardest and most exhausting of all labor; and hence many people shrink from it.

I don't know how I dealt with it. I went to a shrink.

However long the horror continued, one must not get to the stage of refusing to think about it. To shrink from direct pain was bad enough, but to shrink from vicarious pain was the ultimate cowardice. And whereas to conceal direct pain was a virtue, to conceal vicarious pain was a sin. Only by feeling it to the utmost, and by expressing it, could the rest of the world help to heal the injury which had caused it. Money, food, clothing, shelter - people could give all these and still it would not be enough; it would not absolve them from paying also, in full, the imponderable tribute of grief.

A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.

My mother wanted to shrink from my clinging, but did not.

Wilderness is a resource which can shrink but not grow.

We should not shrink from opportunities where our faith may be tried. The more I am in a position to be tried in faith, the more I will have the opportunity of seeing God’s help and deliverance. Every fresh instance in which He helps and delivers me will increase my faith. The believer should not shrink from situations, positions, or circumstances in which his faith may be tried, but he should cheerfully embrace them as opportunities to see the hand of God stretched out in help and deliverance. Thus his faith will be strengthened.

A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.

I will never shrink from speaking truth to power.

Our goal is to shrink government to the size where we can drown it in a bathtub.

Dancers dance through their pain I shrink from mine.

Celtic jerseys are not for second best, they don't shrink to fit inferior players

Breastfeeding is amazing; you can actually feel your stomach shrink with every feed.

I went to a shrink once, but I caught him going to a fortune-teller so I quit.

Shrink, shrink variation, to reduce the loss.

Debts grow and grow. And the more they grow, the more they shrink the economy. When you shrink the economy, you shrink the ability to pay the debts, so it's all an illusion that the system can be saved. The question is, how long are people going to be willing to live in this illusion?

Women are socialized to be nice, to be docile. I call it 'shrink to fit': Shrink yourself to fit what others expect of you.

In Hollywood if you don't have a shrink, people think you're crazy.

When I don't write, I feel my world shrink. I lose my fire, my color.

I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.

When the Democrats are attacked for [inciting class warfare] they shrink back. They don't say what obviously should be said, "Yes, there is class warfare. There has always been class warfare in this country." The reason the Democrats shrink back is because the Democrats and the Republicans are on the same side of the class war. They have slightly different takes. The Democrats are part of the upper class that is more willing to make concessions to the lower class in order to maintain their power.

Don't shrink to meet the expectations of others, grow to become the person you want to be.

He that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity.

Acting for me is very therapeutic. It's my shrink.

A drink a day keeps the shrink away.

When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.

I have a shrink in New York and a shrink in Arizona, just in case. You never know when you will have a breakdown.

Soon numbers of Chinese people will exit the work force, and the Chinese work force, which has already begun to shrink, will shrink in a vastly accelerated way. And so China's going to face huge retirement costs and Social Security costs, health care costs, related to this immense aging of the population.

Hyperloop is the ultimate pinnacle of that idea of, 'Can we actually shrink space and time?'

Why don't sheep shrink when it rains?

A runway is like a shrink's couch; stuff just comes out.