Shrinks Quotes - Page 10

• Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound. The man who does not shrink from self-crucifixion can never fail to accomplish the object upon which his heart is set. This is true of earthly as of heavenly things. Even the man whose object is to acquire wealth must be prepared to make great personal sacrifices before he can accomplish his object; and how much more so he who would realize a strong and well-poised life.

  James Allen

  Strong, Heart, Sacrifice

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• Wilderness is a resource which can shrink but not grow.

  Aldo Leopold

  Wilderness, Resources, Grows

  Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.199, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Some days confidence shrinks to the size of a pea, and the backbone feels like a feather. We want to be somewhere else, and don't know where - want to be someone else and don't know who.

  Jean Hersey

  Somewhere Else, Want, Size

  Jean Hersey (1967). “The Shape of a Year”

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• Deflation is a leakage from this circular flow, to pay banks and the real estate, called the FIRE sector - finance, insurance and real estate. These transfer payments leave less and less of the paycheck to be spent on goods and services, so markets shrink.

  Michael Hudson

  Real, Fire, Pay

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• [On Jane Austen:] To believe her limited in range because she was harmonious in method is as sensible as to imagine that when the Atlantic Ocean is as smooth as a mill-pond it shrinks to the size of a mill-pond.

  Rebecca West

  Believe, Ocean, Ponds

  Rebecca West (2010). “The Strange Necessity: Essays and Reviews”, p.165, Open Road Media

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• I wonder whether our adoption of Shrink-ese as a second language, the move from religious phrases of judgment to secular words of acceptance, hasn't also produced a moral lobotomy. In the reluctance, the aversion to being judgmental, are we disabled from making any judgments at all?

  Ellen Goodman

  Religious, Moving, Acceptance

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• Camera phones threaten to turn everyone into amateur paparazzi. We are witnessing our personal space shrink because of the way technology is being used.

  Daniel J. Solove

  Technology, Phones, Space

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• The sky is now indelible ink, The branches reft asunder; But you and I we do not shrink; We love the lovely thunder.

  Ogden Nash

  Sky, Lovely, Ink

  Ogden Nash (1941). “The Face is Familiar: The Selected Verse of Ogden Nash”, Garden City, N. Y : Garden City publishing Company, Incorporated

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• We may rightly shrink from saying that any given individual is certainly so unfaithful to light and grace as to incur the eternal loss of God, we do know that many are so. God knows who they are.

  Henry Parry Liddon

  Loss, Light, Grace

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• When the Democrats are attacked for [inciting class warfare] they shrink back. They don't say what obviously should be said, "Yes, there is class warfare. There has always been class warfare in this country." The reason the Democrats shrink back is because the Democrats and the Republicans are on the same side of the class war. They have slightly different takes. The Democrats are part of the upper class that is more willing to make concessions to the lower class in order to maintain their power.

  Howard Zinn

  Country, War, Order

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• We notice as the Bible goes on, the area of scared space shrinks.

  Northrop Frye

  Space, Goes On, Scared

  "The Great Code: The Bible and Literature". Book by Northrop Frye, 1981.

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• Television is a new, hard test of our wisdom. If we succeed in mastering the new medium it will enrich us. But it can also put our mind to sleep. We must not forget that in the past the inability to transport immediate experience and to convey it to others made the use of language necessary and thus compelled the human mind to develop concepts. For in order to describe things one must draw the general from the specific; one must select, compare, think. When communication can be achieved by pointing with the finger, however, the mouth grows silent, the writing hand stops, and the mind shrinks.

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Communication, Sleep, Writing

  Rudolf Arnheim (1957). “Film as Art”, p.195, Univ of California Press

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• Men who shrink from penetration of the female body are paralyzed by justifiable apprehension, since they are returning to our uncanny site of origin.

  Camille Paglia

  Men, Female, Body

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Vamps & Tramps: New Essays”, p.79, Vintage

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• When tempted, the shortest and surest way is to act like a little child at the breast; when we show it a frightful monster, it shrinks back and buries its face in its mother's bosom, that it may no longer behold it.

  Francois Fenelon

  Mother, Children, Temptation

  Francois Fenelon (2014). “Spiritual Progress”, p.51, Lulu.com

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• When I was young, my father was lord Of a small kingdom: a wife, a garden, Kids for whom his word was Word. It took years for my view to harden, To shrink him to human size.

  Tracy K. Smith

  Father, Kids, Garden

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• He that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Adversity, Prosperity

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• However long the horror continued, one must not get to the stage of refusing to think about it. To shrink from direct pain was bad enough, but to shrink from vicarious pain was the ultimate cowardice. And whereas to conceal direct pain was a virtue, to conceal vicarious pain was a sin. Only by feeling it to the utmost, and by expressing it, could the rest of the world help to heal the injury which had caused it. Money, food, clothing, shelter - people could give all these and still it would not be enough; it would not absolve them from paying also, in full, the imponderable tribute of grief.

  Jan Struther

  Pain, Grief, Thinking

  Jan Struther (1956). “A pocketful of pebbles”

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• Memory must be patchy; what is more alarming is its face-savingness. Something in one shrinks from catching it out - unique to oneself, one's own, one's claim to identity, it implicates one's identity in its fibbing.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Memories, Unique, Identity

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• War, even in the best state of an army, with all the alleviations of courtesy and honor, with all the correctives of morality and religion, is nevertheless so great an evil, that to engage in it without a clear necessity is a crime of the blackest dye. When the necessity is clear, it then becomes a crime to shrink from it.

  Robert Southey

  War, Army, Evil

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• Deference often shrinks and withers as much upon the approach of intimacy as the sensitive plant does upon the touch of one's finger.

  William Shenstone

  Doe, Intimacy, Sensitive

  William Shenstone (1764). “The Works in Verse and Prose, of William Shenstone, Esq;: Essays on men, manners, and things. A description of The Leasowes, the seat of the late William Shenstone, Esq. Verses to Mr. Shenstone”, p.207

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• The wounded limb shrinks from the slightest touch; and a slight shadow alarms the nervous.
  [Lat., Membra reformidant mollem quoque saucia tactum:
  Vanaque sollicitis incutit umbra metum.]

  Ovid

  Fear, Shadow, Alarms

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• A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.

  Tacitus

  Fallen

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• 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?

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Gratitude, Kindness, Children

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1849). “Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero. To which is Added Doctor Birch, and His Young Friends”, p.33

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• When I don't write, I feel my world shrink. I lose my fire, my color.

  Anais Nin

  Writing, Fire, Color

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• They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak; They are slaves who will not choose Hatred, scoffing, and abuse, Rather than in silence shrink From the truth they needs must think; They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three.

  James Russell Lowell

  Thinking, Two, Hatred

  James Russell Lowell (1849). “Poems”, p.206

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