Shrinks Quotes - Page 7

• Fate is a shape-shifter. It is the kindest and most generous entity imaginable, laying out more goodness than a person deserves, and then it shrinks and curls and forms into something grotesque. You think something is one thing, but then it´s another.

  Deb Caletti

  Fate, Thinking, Curls

  Deb Caletti (2012). “Stay”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

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• You know what I figured out?" I hate this part." Dr. Martin leaned back in his chair. "It means I'm about to lose income or I'm about to learn what a crappy shrink I am." (276)

  Gail Giles

  Hate, Mean, Drs

  Gail Giles (2008). “Right Behind You”, p.113, Hachette UK

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• Are people crazy? People waited all their lives. They waited to live, they waited to die. They waited in line to buy toilet paper. They waited in line for money. And if they didn't have any money they waited in longer lines. You waited to go to sleep and then you waited to awaken. You waited to get married and you waited to get divorced. You waited for it to rain, you waited for it to stop. You waited to eat and then you waited to eat again. You waited in a shrink's office with a bunch of psychos and you wondered if you were one.

  Charles Bukowski

  Crazy, Rain, Sleep

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• I've learned that I shouldn't shrink from success. Though honestly I thought they'd be knocking on my door years ago.

  Ariel Pink

  Doors, Years, I've Learned

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• You have to shrink yourself to fit into this little life with him.

  Melissa Bank

  Littles, Fit

  Melissa Bank (2000). “The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing”, p.57, Penguin

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• It’s one thing to protect yourself,” Dad yelled at me during our very next lunch. “That I get. Have I ever told you not to defend yourself? No. But did you have to permanently maim him? I spent all that money on that on that fancy school for girls-not to mention all that money for the shrinks-and what did that get me?” I shrugged. “A seven-figure civil suit?

  Meg Cabot

  Girl, Dad, School

  Meg Cabot (2011). “Abandon”, p.181, Scholastic Inc.

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• Don't shrink from natures brutal perfection. Take joy in it. Embrace it. Understand it and revel in it. Respect it's strength, it's wisdom, it's brutality and it's all-encompassing power. The highest law has always been, and shall be, nature; and the greatest wisdom forever lives in and through nature's eternal Fascism.

  Boyd Rice

  Law, Perfection, Joy

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• Hindu fundamentalism is a contradiction in terms, since Hinduism is a religion without fundamentals; there is no such thing as a Hindu heresy. How dare a bunch of goondas shrink the soaring majesty of the Vedas and the Upanishads to the petty bigotry of their brand of identity politics?

  Shashi Tharoor

  Identity Politics, Vedas, Fundamentals

  Shashi Tharoor (2007). “The Elephant, the Tiger, and the Cell Phone: Reflections on India, the Emerging 21st-century Power”, p.75, Penguin Books India

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• 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.

  Ned Vizzini

  Mouths, Want, Intention

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• But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes. The heart of a hurt child can shrink so that forever afterward it is hard and pitted as the seed of a peach. Or again, the heart of such a child may fester and swell until it is a misery to carry within the body, easily chafed and hurt by the most ordinary things.

  Carson McCullers

  Hurt, Children, Heart

  Carson McCullers (2005). “The Ballad of the Sad Cafe”, p.28, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Compared to war, all other forms of human endeavor shrink to insignificance. God help me, I do love it so.

  George S. Patton

  War, Helping, God Help Me

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• The world that was not mine yesterday now lies spread out at my feet, a splendor. I seem, in the middle of the night, to have returned to the world of apples, the orchards of Heaven. Perhaps I should take my problems to a shrink, or perhaps I should enjoy the apples that I have, streaked with color like the evening sky.

  John Cheever

  Lying, Night, Sky

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• Your ideal possession candidate's a thirteen-year-old recently orphaned schizophrenic girl three days away from her period on her way to see the shrink with whom she's romantically besotted.

  Glen Duncan

  Girl, Years, Three

  Glen Duncan (2007). “I, Lucifer: Finally, the Other Side of the Story”, p.26, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Nationalism of one kind or another was the cause of most of the genocide of the twentieth century. Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people's minds and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead.

  Arundhati Roy

  Government, People, Mind

  Arundhati Roy (2003). “War Talk”, p.47, South End Press

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• In Hollywood if you don't have a shrink, people think you're crazy.

  Johnny Carson

  Crazy, Thinking, People

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• A wave of blood goes up to my head, my stomach shrinks together, as if something dangerous has just missed hitting me. It's as if I've been caught stealing, or telling a lie; or as if I've heard other people talking about me, saying bad things about me, behind my back. There's the same flush of shame, of guilt and terror, and of cold disgust with myself. But I don't know where these feelings have come from, what I've done.

  Margaret Atwood

  Lying, Blood, Talking

  Margaret Atwood (1989). “Cat's Eye”, Bantam

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• You are built not to shrink down to less but to blossom into more.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Failure, Growth, Built

  Oprah Winfrey (2014). “What I Know for Sure”, p.66, Pan Macmillan

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• 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.

  Jacqueline Carey

  Fear, Fate, Cups

  Jacqueline Carey (2002). “Kushiel's Dart”, p.314, Macmillan

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• May in Ayemenem is a hot, brooding month. The days are long and humid. The river shrinks and black crows gorge on bright mangoes in still, dustgreen trees. Red bananas ripen. Jackfruits burst. Dissolute bluebottles hum vacuously in the fruity air. Then they stun themselves against clear windowpanes and die, fatly baffled in the sun.

  Arundhati Roy

  Air, Rivers, Long

  Arundhati Roy (2002). “The God of Small Things”, p.1, Penguin Books India

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• Everything shrinks. Individual character. Friendships. Language. Sensibility.

  Zadie Smith

  Character, Language, Individual

  "Generation Why?" by Zadie Smith, www.nybooks.com. November 25, 2010.

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• If you can approach the world's complexities, both its glories and its horrors, with an attitude of humble curiosity, acknowledging that however deeply you have seen, you have only scratched the surface, you will find worlds within worlds, beauties you could not heretofore imagine, and your own mundane preoccupations will shrink to proper size, not all that important in the greater scheme of things.

  Daniel Dennett

  Beauty, Attitude, Humble

  "Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon". Book by Daniel C. Dennett, 2006.

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• The ladies men admire, I've heard, Would shudder at a wicked word. Their candle gives a single light, They'd rather stay at home at night. They do not keep awake 'till three, Nor read erotic poetry. They never sanction the impure, Nor recognize an overture. They shrink from powders and from paints... So far I've had no complaints.

  Dorothy Parker

  Humorous, Home, Night

  Dorothy Parker (1936). “Not So Deep as a Well”, Macmillan Company of Canada

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• So, now I've been to see a drug counselor who told me I need to lay off the drugs and talk about my feelings, and a shrink who heard what I had to say and immediately put me on drugs.

  Libba Bray

  Drug, Feelings, Needs

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• I really think the range of emotions and perceptions I have had access to as a black person and as a female person are greater than those of people who are neither.... So it seems to me that my world did not shrink because I was a black female writer. It just got bigger.

  Toni Morrison

  Thinking, People, Black

  "Disagree with me - but not because I'm a black woman" by Hannah Pool, www.theguardian.com. November 8, 2011.

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• Sometimes, a flame can be utterly extinguished. Sometimes, a flame can shrink and waver, but sometimes a flame refuses to go out. It flares up from the faintest ember to illuminate the darkness, to burn in spite of overwhelming odds.

  Karen Hesse

  Hard Times, Odds, Illumination

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