Shrinks Quotes - Page 8

• Whenever I'm with other people, part of me shrinks a little. Only when I am alone can I fully enjoy my own company.

  Alan Bradley

  People, Littles, Enjoy

  Alan Bradley (2011). “A Red Herring Without Mustard: A Flavia de Luce Novel”, p.85, Delacorte Press

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• I like to shoot a lot of choices. I like a lot of stuff - and so I push to go faster, to shrink the time between the takes so that the takes are what you're spending all your time on.

  Jay Roach

  Choices, Stuff, Spending

  Source: collider.com

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• Remember that hate is not the opposite of love as people think.  Hate is love standing upside down; it is not the opposite of love.  The real opposite of love is fear.  In love one expands, in fear one shrinks.  In fear one becomes closed, in love one opens.  In fear one doubts, in love one trusts.  In fear one is left lonely.  In love one disappears; hence there is no question of loneliness at all.  Love is when you have known your inner sky.  There is no higher religion than love

  Rajneesh

  Lonely, Hate, Real

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• As a guiding principle, life shrinks and life expands in direct proportion to your willingness to assume risk.

  Casey Neistat

  Guiding Principles, Risk, Assuming

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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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• His heart was like a sensitive plant, that opens for a moment in the sunshine, but curls up and shrinks into itself at the slightest touch of the finger, or the lightest breath of wind.

  Anne Bronte

  Heart, Sunshine, Wind

  Anne Bronte (2016). “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Diversion Illustrated Classics)”, p.48, Diversion Books

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• 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

  Mean, Government, Choices

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• Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.

  Jim Morrison

  Inspirational, Positive, Freedom

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• Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

  Anais Nin

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.

  Thomas Paine

  Peace, Truth, War

  Thomas Paine (1824). “The Political Writings of Thomas Paine: Secretary to the Committee of Foreign Affairs in the American Revolution : to which is Prefixed a Brief Sketch of the Author's Life”, p.284

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• '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

  Strength, Being Strong, Perseverance

  Thomas Paine, John P. Kaminski (2002). “Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion”, p.44, Rowman & Littlefield

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• I have prayed with the families and wept at the funerals of Hoosiers who did not shrink from 9-11 but grew into heroes whose names will forever be engraved in the heart of a grateful nation.

  Mike Pence

  Hero, Grateful, Heart

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• How many people have a family grave in the backyard? I'm sure I'll end up there, or I'll shrink my head and put it in a glass box in the living room. I'll get more tourists to Graceland that way.

  Lisa Marie Presley

  Glasses, People, Tourism

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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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• For liberty to expand, government must shrink. For the economy to grow, government must get out of the way.

  Rand Paul

  Government, Liberty, Way

  "Paul: GOP 'has grown stale and moss-covered'" by Emily Schultheis, www.politico.com. March 14, 2013.

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• Unfortunately, religion often works to shrink and tame the very wild and mysterious forces that first drew our wonder. In the process of making the inexplicable safe for the masses, the possibilities for real illusion-piercing insight becomes reduced. One might say that they are only available to those who dare to ride the breaking crest of direct life-altering experience.

  Stephen K. Hayes

  Real, Piercings, Safe

  Stephen K. Hayes (1986). “Ninja Realms of Power: Spiritual Roots and Traditions of the Shadow Warrior”, McGraw-Hill/Contemporary

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• 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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• As work weeks get longer and leisure time shrinks, people are becoming sicker, more distracted, absent, unproductive, and less innovative.

  Brigid Schulte

  People, Leisure, Becoming

  Brigid Schulte (2014). “Overwhelmed: Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time”, p.32, Macmillan

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• I demand from you deeds of mercy which are to arise out of love for me. You are to show mercy to your neighbors always and everywhere. You must not shrink from this or try to excuse yourself from it.

  Mary Faustina Kowalska

  Trying, Saint, Demand

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• If you hold a candle close to you, its flame rises. And if you hold it away from you, its flame shrinks. The same way you hold a candle close to you, keep all your plans, aspirations, projects, and dreams close to you too. Do not share your plans or goals until you complete them, because as you hold your candle away from you, your goals will shrink in the eyes of others. Envy, jealousy, and resentment will put out your flame before it grows.

  Suzy Kassem

  Dream, Eye, Flames

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• [Men] prefer the foolish belief and the passions of the earth [to the enlightenment of their souls]. They believe the absurd and shrink from the truth.No, they do not. They are afraid, that is all. And they must remain on earth until they come to the way of leaving it.And how do they leave? How is the ascent made? Must one learn virtue?Here she laughs. You have read too much, and learned too little. Virtue is a road, not a destination. Man cannot be virtuous. Understanding is the goal. When that is achieved, the soul can take wing.

  Iain Pears

  Believe, Passion, Men

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• Some of us, perhaps all of us, believe that it is legitimate to kill enemy soldiers in a war, as if war were a special circumstance that shrinks the sizes of enemy souls.

  Douglas Hofstadter

  War, Believe, Soul

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• They are surely to be esteemed the bravest spirits who, having the clearest sense of both the pains and pleasures of life, do not on that account shrink from danger.

  Thucydides

  Pain, Spirit, Pleasure

  Thucydides (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Thucydides (Illustrated)”, p.116, Delphi Classics

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• I've never been to a shrink. But my parents were very psychologically literate - my father had undergone Freudian analysis - and we often talked about other people in psychological terms, so I picked up a lot of that.

  Toby Young

  Father, People, Parent

  "Forever Young". Interview With Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2006.

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• We become human only in the company of other human beings. And this involves both opening our hearts and giving voice to our deepest convictions. ...When we shrink from the world, our souls shrink, too.

  Paul Rogat Loeb

  Heart, Voice, Giving

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