Top 157 Shrinks Quotes & Sayings
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Last updated on April 14, 2025.
A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.
Fame is the shade of immortality, And in itself a shadow. Soon as caught, Contemn'd; it shrinks to nothing in the grasp.
Knowledge is hot water on wool. It shrinks time and space.
Who feels injustice, who shrinks before a slight, who has a sense of wrong so acute, and so glowing a gratitude for kindness, as a generous boy?
As the mind shrinks at the will of the initiate, thought flows in to fill the spaces so created.
Memory shrinks until it fits in a fist
memory shrinks without forgetting
As anyone who lived through the 1990s knows, nothing shrinks our deficits faster than a growing economy.
We notice as the Bible goes on, the area of scared space shrinks.
Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
Time after time ... today's crisis shrinks to next week's footnote to a newly headline disaster.
I hate not understanding the words, because it kind of squashes the song. It shrinks the visual landscape that you've made for the sounds. And, all of a sudden, the content eclipses things.
Everything shrinks. Individual character. Friendships. Language. Sensibility.
When a human being becomes a set of data on a website like Facebook, he or she is reduced. Everything shrinks. Individual character. Friendships. Language. Sensibility.
The liberal understanding of 'the separation of church and state' means that as the area of politics expands, the area of private freedom - religious and otherwise - shrinks.
...greatness sympathises with greatness, and littleness shrinks into itself.
In a sense, knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows: for details are swallowed up in principles.
Truth can be sliced a hundred different ways, and it will still remain true, but falsehood shrinks into the shadows, hoping never to be tested, with excuses aplenty.
As a guiding principle, life shrinks and life expands in direct proportion to your willingness to assume risk.
The type of religion which rejoices in the pious sound of traditional phrases, regardless of their meanings, or shrinks from "controversial" matters, will never stand amid the shocks of life.
Grief even in a child hates the light and shrinks from human eyes.
Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.
How convalescence shrinks a man back to his pristine stature! where is now the space, which he occupied so lately, in his own, in the family's eye?
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
That which shrinks must first expand.
A lie faces God and shrinks from man.
At the end of the Roman Empire, in the Byzantine period, the empire shrinks and shrinks until it consists of one city, Constantinople, and the Ottoman Turks can encircle it.
Whenever I'm with other people, part of me shrinks a little. Only when I am alone can I fully enjoy my own company.
No matter what the shrinks, or the pundits, or the self-help books tell you, when it comes to love, it's luck.
The federal government is enormous; it never shrinks. And the interest is killing us.
I don't-" I shake my head. (...) "What? What were you going to say?" This is another trick of shrinks. They never let you stop in midthought. If you open your mouth, they want to know exactly what you had the intention of saying.
Fear is a treacherous leader. It shrinks from the new and fails to meet the challenges of the future.
Nature shrinks as capital grows. The growth of the market cannot solve the very crisis it creates.
Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.
Natural villains are hard to come by, what with all the shrinks and social-scientist types threatening to understand everybody into the ground.
Of all things that can happen to us, triumph is the most difficult to endure when we are alone. Deprived of witnesses, it shrinks at once.
The mounting burden of taxation not only undermines individual incentives to increased work and earnings, but in a score of ways discourages capital accumulation and distorts, unbalances, and shrinks production.
As work weeks get longer and leisure time shrinks, people are becoming sicker, more distracted, absent, unproductive, and less innovative.
As we grow older, our capacity for enjoyment shrinks, but not our appetite for it.
His heart was like a sensitive plant, that opens for a moment in the sunshine, but curls up and shrinks into itself at the slightest touch of the finger, or the lightest breath of wind.
Ah! mon Dieu! how the mind shrinks by loving! it is true that the soul does not, but what can one do with a soul?
The best feeling is when you dunk on a big guy bigger than you, then you can give him that look. It shrinks him down a bit!
Now when you hates you shrinks up inside and gets littler and you squeezes your heart tight and you stays so mad with peoples you feels sick all the time like you needs the doctor.
There is the emergence of a militarized society that now organizes itself for the production of violence. A society in which the range of acceptable opinion inevitably shrinks.
In my judgment, excellence and wealth are direct opposites, since when the one shrinks, the other grows, and when one grows, the other shrinks.
Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.
It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.
The corporation that shrinks from the light" would have anything to fear from government. About the welfare of such corporations we need not be oversensitive.
A man shrinks or expands into the degree and nature of his ambition. Ambition needs to be cultivated and refined, and yet has no teachers.
Children accept their world as the world. I grew up like kids that I went to school with. Their parents were either shrinks or actors.
Seeing my malevolent face in the mirror, my benevolent soul shrinks back.
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage "People living deeply have no fear of death.
He that shrinks from the grave with too great a dread, has an invisible fear behind him pushing him into it.
Ah, but depression - that is what we all hate. We the afflicted. Whereas the relatives and shrinks, the tribal ring, they rather welcome it: you are quiet and you suffer.
Deference often shrinks and withers as much upon the approach of intimacy as the sensitive plant does upon the touch of one's finger.
It is a curious thing that the more the world shrinks because of electronic communications, the more limitless becomes the province of the storytelling entertainer.
I can't experience my brain because I'm inside of it. If you're imaging your brain, you can also find scary things. As one ages, your brain shrinks. And how much it shrinks, and where it shrinks, relates to conditions like Alzheimer's and dementia.
Whoso shrinks from ideas ends by having nothing but sensations.
The ugly is very appealing to man. It's instinct. One shrinks from the ugly, yet wants to look at it. There's a devilish fascination in it. We extract pleasure from horror.
Most people aren't cut out for value investing, because human nature shrinks from pain.
Where now is Britain? . Even as the savage sits upon the stone That marks were stood her capitols, and hears The bittern booming in the weeds, he shrinks From the dismaying solitude.
