Top 238 Shrinking Quotes & Sayings

When I see a paragraph shrinking under my eyes like a strip of bacon in a skillet, I know I'm on the right track.

There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive.

After a moment of shrinking back, we domesticate the grotesque.

Republicans face unexpected challenges in coastal South amid shrinking white vote

Labor is getting a shrinking slice of a pie that's not growing very much.

By 1865, all Southern women - the happily and regrettably single, the perpetually engaged, the wives and widows - had tired of the war. The Confederacy was shrinking, and the morale of its remaining men shrinking with it.

There is no example on the planet of a successful economy with broadly shared prosperity and a shrinking, weak government.

It's extremely hard for the economy to grow when the workforce is shrinking.

The globe is shrinking, the information age is bringing a lot of changes. People are anxious about their future and their children's futures.

I'm not the sort to back away from a fight. I don't believe in shrinking from anything. It's not my speed; I'm a guy who meets adversities head on.

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.

There is nothing enlightening about shrinking so that other people

History is always written by the victor, and the histories of the losing parties belong to the shrinking circle of those who were there.

In that shrinking moment he discovered that he had never hated anyone until now. It was a feeling as pure as love, but dispassionate and icily rational.

As technology continues to increase our possibilities, what we're seeing is a shrinking of the lag time between what we dream about and what we create.

Life is not shrinking for me; it's morphing into a whole new world of possibilities.

The old internet is shrinking and being replaced by walled gardens over which Google's crawlers can't climb.

Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.

Shrinking someone's stomach to the size of a walnut with surgery is one way to battle obesity and diabetes and may be lifesaving for a few, but it doesn't address the underlying causes.

The world is shrinking, and everyone is majorly interested in Indian films now.

There is not a country on earth that could get its fiscal house in order by shrinking opportunity and depressing growth.

All of journalism is a shrinking art. So much of it is hype. The O.J. Simpson story is a landmark in the decline of journalism.

Next to my mom, I'm actually a shrinking violet.

I have a proven record, a record of accomplishment, a record of cutting taxes, of shrinking the government, of reforming education, of challenging the status quo, eliminating career civil service protections, shrinking the government workforce by 11 percent, but leading the nation in job growth.

The region of the mysterious is rapidly shrinking.

The right wing is appealing to a shrinking, shrinking demographic of angry white people who blame their predicament in life on the fact that there are immigrants coming into the country; it's pretty ludicrous.

We need role models in our society that the youth can look up to because that space is shrinking.

Sin has a way of shrinking God down and puffing ourselves up.

The Democrat Party is a shrinking and dwindling hate group. That's literally what they've become.

The beauty of Twitter is that more and more people are flocking to it because it's shrinking their world.

Habitat for wildlife is continually shrinking - I can at least provide a way station.

Whatever its origin, I'd like to see a cure for the Incredibly Shrinking Actress phenomena.

The conversation on global warming has been stalled because a shrinking group of denialists fly into a rage when it's mentioned.

If you can do it, it ain't braggin'... it's a matter of self-confidence. I got where I did because I wasn't no shrinking violet.

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.

Basically, unless you're willing to write down debts and save the economy, you're going to have deflation and a steady drain in purchasing power - that is, shrinking markets.

CHILDHOOD: The rapidly shrinking interval between infancy and first arrest on a drug or weapons charge.

With that gentleness I can be bold; with that economy I can be liberal; shrinking from taking precedence of others, I can become a vessel of the highest honour.

Anyone who has to be accountable in a time when resources are shrinking, where transparency is necessary, where the pressures are greater, is going to find that it takes a toll.

More than ever, the world needs good engineers. However, the pool of talent is shrinking not growing.

The polar bear for many has become a living symbol of the dangers of global warming. The powerful kings of the arctic are finding their habitat shrinking.

Rather than shrinking away from your problems, grow bigger than them.

The Soviet Union needs thinking and critical friends, such as are capable not only of singing hymns in the hours of success, but of not shrinking in the hour of defeat and danger.

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.

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.

I am no shrinking violet.

I have no fear nor shrinking; I have seen death so often that it is not strange or fearful to me.

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.

For we, the people, understand that our country cannot succeed when a shrinking few do very well and a growing many barely make it.

The ice sheets seem to be shrinking 100 years ahead of schedule.

If left unchecked, global change will create violent conflict, torrential storms, shrinking coastlines, and irreversible catastrophe.

Booking windows are shrinking, and customers are going mobile: trends which position HotelTonight perfectly for the future.

There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people will not feel insecure around you.

I think you can't deny that because the cochlear implant exists, the signing world is shrinking.

In times of shrinking expectations,... everyone feels like a victim and pushes away outsiders to defend his own corner.

With the shrinking of the US economy, and it's shrinking very rapidly, you not only have more money, but you also have fewer goods. That's a classic double-whammy on inflation.

Because of the rate of technology change, forecast horizons are shrinking.

In this shrinking world, it is futile to seek safety behind geographical barriers. Real security will be found only in law and in justice.

All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.

Nominee. A modest gentleman shrinking from the distinction of private life and diligently seeking the honorable obscurity of public office.