Shrink Quotes

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.
Leonardo da Vinci

Love, Strength, Business

I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
Thomas Paine

Love, Strength, Business

Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first - rock and roll or Christianity.
John Lennon

Rock, Jesus, Popular

In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it.
John F. Kennedy

History, Freedom, Long

I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.
Og Mandino

Become, Here, Purpose

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King

Important, Feelings, Words

The words spoken by the leader of the free world can expand the frontiers of freedom or shrink them. When Ronald Reagan called on Gorbachev to 'tear down this wall,' a surge of confidence rose that would ultimately breach the bounds of the evil empire.
Mitt Romney

Freedom, Evil, Confidence

'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
Thomas Paine

Business, Death, Heart

Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Love, Men, Fear

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

Time, Cannot, Big

I don't think life is absurd. I think we are all here for a huge purpose. I think we shrink from the immensity of the purpose we are here for.
Norman Mailer

Life, Here, Purpose

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.
Marcel Proust

Time, Inspire, Habit

The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together.
Karl Marx

Together, Labor, Among

A drink a day keeps the shrink away.
Edward Abbey

Away, Drink, Keeps

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

Government, Goal, Size

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

Face, National, Universal

Some artists shrink from self-awareness, fearing that it will destroy their unique gifts and even their desire to create. The truth of the matter is quite opposite.
James Broughton

Truth, Matter, Desire

I got problems. I freak out, go to a shrink, go through all kinds of therapy and stuff, but I'm learning how to deal with it. That's why I've chosen one hour a night to get all of my aggressions out. to really tell the world the way I feel.
Jonathan Davis

Learning, Night, Through

If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same test.
Mary Wollstonecraft

Women, Same, Rights

Higher taxes is the road to ruin. We must and we will shrink our government, and that means making some tough choices, tightening our belts.
Chris Christie

Government, Tough, Making

The massive bulk of the earth does indeed shrink to insignificance in comparison with the size of the heavens.
Nicolaus Copernicus

Earth, Indeed, Comparison

We don't need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.
Rand Paul

Government, Bigger, Size

We try, we fail, we posture, we aspire, we pontificate - and then we age, shrink, die, and vanish.
George Saunders

You know, in a workplace, when you shrink the size of a workforce, there is pain there. But there is no question: we have a government that we can no longer afford.That is the cold, hard fact. So we have to make this more efficient. We have to sunset programs that no longer work. We have to eliminate waste and fraud. We must do this.
Meg Whitman

Work, Government, Pain

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

Woman, Nothing, Lost

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

Him, Once, Quit

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

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.
Ray Romano

Mind, Giving, Word

The fact is, if our primary legislative goals are to repeal and replace the health spending bill; to end the bailouts; cut spending; and shrink the size and scope of government, the only way to do all these things it is to put someone in the White House who won't veto any of these things.
Mitch McConnell

Health, Government, End

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

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