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Last updated on April 21, 2025.
The mind cannot be securely anchored. If we do not advance, we go backward. If we do not grow, we decay. If we do not develop, we shrink and shrivel.
In order that one industry might grow or come into existence, a hundred other industries would have to shrink.
My world did not shrink because I was a black female writer. It just got bigger.
As we expand our knowledge of good books, we shrink the circle of men whose company we appreciate.
The words spoken by the leader of the free world can expand the frontiers of freedom or shrink them.
Great talents, by the rust of long disuse,
Grow lethargic and shrink from what they were.
It's a very neurotic time we live in, this postanalytical period where everybody goes to a shrink to solve their problems.
... the Athenian lawmaker Solon decreed it a crime for any citizen to shrink from controversy.
Fate has carried me 'Mid the thick arrows: I will keep my stand Not shrink and let the shaft pass by my breast To pierce another.
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.
Compared to war, all other forms of human endeavor shrink to insignificance. God help me, I do love it so.
Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.
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.
I'm always giving myself the Alzheimer's test. My shrink told me to do this. It takes one minute. You name every word that comes to mind that begins with the letter F.
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.
Without its daydreams, the self is apt to shrink down to the size and shape of the estimation of others
Men who shrink from penetration of the female body are paralyzed by justifiable apprehension, since they are returning to our uncanny site of origin.
How do I ask my shrink to stop responding to everything I say with, Too much information! and then giggling behind a pillow?
Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.
The massive bulk of the earth does indeed shrink to insignificance in comparison with the size of the heavens.
I'm even taller in person, because photographs shrink you down and steal your soul native american.
I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand.
I built a company; now, I would like to shrink a government and grow an economy.
Visiting old haunts is hard on memory. Things shrink, change, and disappear.
The problems seem so easy out there on the stump. Deficits shrink with a rhetorical flourish.
Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them.
Keep looking below surface appearances. Don't shrink from doing so just because you might not like what you find.
I propose to beg no question to shrink from no conclusion, but to follow truth wherever it may lead.
We try, we fail, we posture, we aspire, we pontificate - and then we age, shrink, die, and vanish.
Drop your shrink and stop your drinkin', crunchy granola's neat.
We are afraid of ideas, of experimenting, of change. We shrink from thinking a problem through to a logical conclusion.
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
In the Senate, I will work to shrink the size of our federal government to its core Constitutional role so the private sector can thrive.
Prophets are those who take life as it is and expand it. They refuse to shrink a vision of tomorrow to the boundaries of yesterday.
Sometimes, taking a job is like going to a shrink or something, where you get to know yourself better.
It's strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.
Animals of all classes, old and young, shrink with instinctive fear from any strange object approaching them.
I'm going through a stage where the dumbest things make me bawl. I feel like I need to see a shrink.
The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.
This is not the time to shrink back in fear. Move forward in faith. Get up every morning knowing you are gifted.
I talk to a shrink. I actually enjoy it, but it costs too much money - it's like £250 a session! It's good though, the whole nation should be on it.
Everybody's looking at me expecting me to shrink up and die.
Does a man shrink from change? Why, what can come into being save by change?
All too often our leaders shrink from their responsibilities and choose to do what is politically expedient.
The very minute a thought is threatened with publicity it seems to shrink towards mediocrity.
Political stress is always apt to shrink the private arena and attach it on to the public
The sky is now indelible ink, The branches reft asunder; But you and I we do not shrink; We love the lovely thunder.
We live in an interdependent world. Every time you cut off somebody else's opportunities, you shrink your own horizons.
Cowards shrink from toil and peril, Vulgar souls attempt and fail; Men of mettle, nothing daunted, Persevere till they prevail.
I've learned that I shouldn't shrink from success. Though honestly I thought they'd be knocking on my door years ago.
The
highest form of success comes to the man who does not shrink from
danger, from hardship or from bitter toil, and who, out of these, wins
the splendid ultimate triumph.
The world wants the kind of men who do not shrink from temporary defeats in life; but come again and wrestle triumph from defeat.
[T]he only way to shrink the trade deficit is for the government to prohibit us from buying whatever we want.
Sometimes we shrink from leadership because our pride makes us afraid of failure. That's not humility.
People envision [looking inside the brain] as being very difficult. You had to take a spaceship, shrink it down, inject it into the bloodstream.
Without the support of American Jews, Israel would shrink to its normal size.
I'd play every day if I could. It's cheaper than a shrink and there are no telephones on my golf cart.
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.
We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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.
