Shrinks Quotes

• We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

  Anais Nin

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Conservatism... offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Preparation, Redress, Conservatism

  'Coningsby' (1844) bk. 2, ch. 5

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• No matter what the shrinks, or the pundits, or the self-help books tell you, when it comes to love, it's luck.

  Woody Allen

  Love, Book, Self

  "Fictional character: Robin Simon". "Celebrity", www.imdb.com. 1998.

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• A person's heart withers if it does not answer another heart.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone

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• Life's perhaps the only riddle That we shrink from giving up.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Life, Giving Up, Riddle

  W. S. Gilbert, Ian C. Bradley (2016). “The Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan”, p.965, Oxford University Press

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• People are more open about seeking help these days. They recognise the fact that the alternative to having a shrink is that you bore your friends stupid. So I figured that I might as well give someone 100 bucks an hour to hear my woes. At least someone can make a living out of listening to my tedious problems.

  Hugh Laurie

  Stupid, People, Giving

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• These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it NOW, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.

  Thomas Paine

  Love, Summer, Country

  The American Crisis, 19 Dec. 1776

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• Nature shrinks as capital grows. The growth of the market cannot solve the very crisis it creates.

  Vandana Shiva

  Nature, Food, Growth

  María Mies, Vandana Shiva (1993). “Ecofeminism”, Zed Books

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• It seems to me that people who don’t learn as easily as others suffer from a kind of learning disability—there is something different about the way they comprehend unfamiliar material—but I fail to see how this disability is improved by psychiatric consultation. What seems to be lacking is a technical ability that those of us called ‘good students’ are born with. Someone should concretely study these skills and teach them. What does a shrink have to do with the process?

  John Irving

  Skills, People, Suffering

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• So once you're dead there's just nothing? Mari: Basically... Korogi: I get so scared when I start thinking about this stuff. I can hardly breathe, and my whole body wants to shrink into a corner. It's so much easier to just believe in reincarnation.

  Haruki Murakami

  Believe, Thinking, Body

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• It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Love, Life, Inspiring

  Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (2009). “My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962”, p.36, Da Capo Press

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• 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, Rights, Tests

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2008). “A Vindication of the Rights of Women & a Vindication of the Rights of Men”, p.17, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them - words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out.

  Stephen King

  Feelings, Important, Size

  "The Body". Book by Stephen King, 1982.

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• 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

  Freedom, Responsibility, Long

  Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1961

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• We have this wild life experience that is full of fantastic minutiae and banal, huge events at the same time. Yet, all of it shrinks in the shadow of death. It's hard to argue with death as a game-changer.

  Bryan Fuller

  Shadow Of Death, Games, Wild Life

  "Bryan Fuller walks us through Hannibal's debut season (2 of 4)". Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, tv.avclub.com. July 24, 2013.

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• Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Men, Ideas, Mind

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• Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Wisdom, Grows

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Inspirational, Funny, Water

  "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" l. 119 (1798).

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• 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, Motivational, Strength

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• I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Believe, Faces, Sovereignty

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• 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

  Night, World, Stuff

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• I'm not a detail guy. I depend on accountants and administrators to do my detail stuff for me, but I do know the overall picture and I know that if you put business people together in a room, not just politicians, they could shrink the deficit tremendously by good business tactics.

  John Paul DeJoria

  People, Guy, Together

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• My aim as a frontman is always to try and shrink the venue, if you can, to turn that football stadium into the world's smallest club. At least you have to try.

  Bruce Dickinson

  Football, Trying, World

  "Q&A: Iron Maiden's Dickinson looks "Back in Time"". Interview with Paul Sexton, www.reuters.com. May 12, 2008.

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• 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.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Political, Preparation, Progress

  'Coningsby' (1844) bk. 2, ch. 5

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• Relativity challenges your basic intuitions that you've built up from everyday experience. It says your experience of time is not what you think it is, that time is malleable. Your experience of space is not what you think it is; it can stretch and shrink.

  Brian Greene

  Thinking, Space, Challenges

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