Shrinks Quotes - Page 11

• I'm going through a stage where the dumbest things make me bawl. I feel like I need to see a shrink.

  Taye Diggs

  Needs, Stage, Feels

  "One Fine Taye". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. October 31, 2006.

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• A drink a day keeps the shrink away.

  Edward Abbey

  Drinking, Beer, Drunk

  Edward Abbey, R. Crumb (1985). “The Monkey Wrench Gang”, p.127, Dream Garden Press

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• Theres something incredible about putting a helmet on just before a game; its a feeling only a football player knows. Your vision narrows, and the whole world shrinks. You cant hear much of what goes on outside you, but you can hear yourself breathe and you can feel yourself sweat.

  Carl Deuker

  Football, Player, Sweat

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• This is the spot where I will lie When life has had enough of me, These are the grasses that will blow Above me like a living sea. These gay old lilies will not shrink To draw their life from death of mine, And I will give my body's fire To make blue flowers on this vine. "O Soul," I said, "have you no tears? Was not the body dear to you?" I heard my soul say carelessly, "The myrtle flowers will grow more blue.

  Sara Teasdale

  Lying, Flower, Gay

  Sara Teasdale (1917). “Love Songs”

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• Transformation Isn't easy when most of the people in your life think you're already perfect, and want you to stay just how they see you. Try to begin a new phase, you'd better expect push-back. Try to create a whole new you, your friend list will shrink considerably.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Thinking, People, Perfect

  Ellen Hopkins (2013). “Perfect”, p.386, Simon and Schuster

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• Realism falls short of reality. It shrinks it, attenuates it, falsifies it; it does not take into account our basic truths and our fundamental obsessions: love, death, astonishment. It presents man in a reduced and estranged perspective. Truth is in our dreams, in the imagination.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Love, Dream, Fall

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• Ooo,” said Alexia, fascinated, “it shrinks back down again. The books didn't detail that occurrence.” The earl laughed. “You must show me these books of yours.

  Gail Carriger

  Book, Details, Said

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• If we desire our faith to be strengthened, we should not shrink from opportunities where our faith may be tried, and therefore, through trial, be strengthened.

  George Muller

  Strength, Christian, Opportunity

  George Muller (2005). “Release The Power Of Prayer”, p.26, Whitaker House

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• The flesh would shrink and go, the blood would dry, but no one believes in his mind of minds or heart of hearts that the pictures do stop.

  Saul Bellow

  Believe, Heart, Blood

  Saul Bellow (2015). “Ravelstein”, p.192, Penguin

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• Knowledge is hot water on wool. It shrinks time and space.

  Mark Z. Danielewski

  Space, Water, Hot

  Twitter post from Dec 16, 2010

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• At the end of their relationship she asked if they could still remain friends. His face stayed expressionless until he said "No. Because we put friends in boxes. You see them once in a while, or even a lot, but still they have their box in your life, their specific place. Their *category.* That's one of the great things about being someone's love-- you have no box in their life because you're part of all their boxes. You're their friend, their lover, their confidante-- all those things. I don't want to be put in one of your boxes and I don't want to shrink you to fit into one of mine.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Love You, Want, Faces

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• May I share with you my earliest memory of a political row? It was with my mother, about the Queen - classic Freudian stuff, shrinks would say. I was eight, and refusing to watch the Queen's Christmas Day broadcast.

  Alastair Campbell

  Christmas, Mother, Queens

  "The royals are so thick" by Alastair Campbell, www.theguardian.com. April 11, 2011.

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• All television ever did was shrink the demand for ordinary movies. The demand for extraordinary movies increased. If any one thing is wrong with the movie industry today, it is the unrelenting effort to astonish.

  Clive James

  Movie, Effort, Hollywood

  Clive James (1985). “Flying Visits”

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• Pain is not wrong. Reacting to pain as wrong initiates the trance of unworthiness. The moment we believe something is wrong, our world shrinks and we lose ourselves in the effort to combat the pain.

  Tara Brach

  Buddhist, Pain, Believe

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• 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.

  Julie Gregory

  Fall, Pride, Blue

  Julie Gregory (2003). “Sickened: The Memoir of a Munchausen by Proxy Childhood”, Bantam

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• Don't you think it's strange that life, described as so rich and full, a camel-trail of adventure, should shrink to this coin-sized world? A head on one side, a story on the other. Someone you loved and what happened. That's all there is when you dig in your pockets. The most significant thing is someone else's face. What else is embossed on your hands but her?

  Jeanette Winterson

  Adventure, Thinking, Hands

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• You can't shrink your way to greatness!

  Seth Godin

  Greatness, Way

  Seth Godin (2012). “Survival Is Not Enough: Shift Happens”, p.76, Simon and Schuster

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• It must be so,-Plato, thou reasonest well! Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality? Or whence this secret dread and inward horror Of falling into naught? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction? 'T is the divinity that stirs within us; 'T is Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man. Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought!

  Joseph Addison

  Plato, Fall, Men

  'Cato' (1713) act 5, sc. 1, l. 1

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• Unless the trade deficit shrinks, the combination of the trade deficit and the interest and dividend payments to foreigners will grow ever more rapidly.

  Martin Feldstein

  Combination, Payment, Interest

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

  Jock Stein

  Player, Jersey, Fit

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• Quick guys get tired; big guys don't shrink.

  Marv Harshman

  Sports, Tired, Guy

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• It is only by fidelity in little things that the grace of true love to God can be sustained, and distinguished from a passing fervor of spirit. . . . No one can well believe that our piety is sincere, when our behavior is lax and irregular in its little details. What probability is there that we should not hesitate to make the greatest sacrifices, when we shrink from the smallest?

  Francois Fenelon

  Love, Believe, Sacrifice

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• Our food system takes abundant grain,which people can't afford,and shrinks it into meat,which better-off people will pay for.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Vegetarianism, People, Meat

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• For the Christian, death is not the end of adventure but a doorway from a wold where dreams and adventures shrink, to a world where dreams and adventures forever expand.

  Randy Alcorn

  Christian, Dream, Adventure

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• When we shrink from the sight of something, when we shroud it in euphemism, that is usually a sign of inner conflict, of unsettled hearts, a sign that something has gone wrong in our moral reasoning.

  Matthew Scully

  Heart, Sight, Gone

  Matthew Scully (2011). “Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy”, p.320, Souvenir Press

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