Quotes about Shrink

Shrink, shrink variation, to reduce the loss. Votes: 3

Women are socialized to be nice, to be docile. I call it 'shrink to fit': Shrink yourself to fit what others expect of you. Votes: 3

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? Votes: 3

Acting for me is very therapeutic. It's my shrink. Votes: 2

A good butcher is important to have. It's like a shrink. Votes: 2

A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it. Votes: 2

When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing. Votes: 2

I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence. Votes: 2

I went to a shrink once, but I caught him going to a fortune-teller so I quit. Votes: 2

Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them. Votes: 2

The massive bulk of the earth does indeed shrink to insignificance in comparison with the size of the heavens. Votes: 2

I cry all the time - at work, at the shrink's, with my lady. 'The Notebook' killed me. 'Up' destroyed me. Votes: 2

The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Some artists shrink from self-awareness, fearing that it will destroy their unique gifts and even their desire to create. The truth of the matter is quite opposite. Votes: 2

I don't think life is absurd. I think we are all here for a huge purpose. I think we shrink from the immensity of the purpose we are here for. Votes: 2

O.K., if the desire to knock America off its pedestal, to redistribute American income to other countries, to shrink America's footprint in the world, makes you anti-American, then Obama is in fact anti-American. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first - rock and roll or Christianity. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

The words spoken by the leader of the free world can expand the frontiers of freedom or shrink them. When Ronald Reagan called on Gorbachev to 'tear down this wall', a surge of confidence rose that would ultimately breach the bounds of the evil empire. Votes: 2

I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. '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. Votes: 2

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out. Votes: 2

I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

I think people ease into this careerist professionalism, so if you're a writer it's your job to manufacture books as opposed to writing them and to go to festivals and spend your life emotionally invested in reviews or the awards. You have to shrink your universe in a way. To me, it's the opposite. Votes: 2

I think it's impossible to maintain a good, strong, muscular physique without taking some supplements. Between the protein shakes and the multivitamins that I take, I use C4, the pre-workout mix. I try to keep it as basic as I can, but I think I would shrink and disappear if I stopped taking protein shakes. Votes: 2

I'm a pretty psycho-obsessed shrink. Votes: 0

If the mind fits, shrink it. Votes: 0

Why don't sheep shrink when it rains? Votes: 0

You can't shrink your way to greatness! Votes: 0

I go to the dentist, not a shrink. Votes: 0

A drink a day keeps the shrink away. Votes: 0

Quick guys get tired; big guys don't shrink. Votes: 0

It is the business of little minds to shrink. Votes: 0

I will never shrink from speaking truth to power, Votes: 0

Dancers dance through their pain I shrink from mine. Votes: 0

A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety. Votes: 0

Drop your shrink and stop your drinkin', crunchy granola's neat. Votes: 0

Simplify your life. You don't grow spiritual, you shrink spiritual. Votes: 0

You never shrink in stature by lifting someone else up... Votes: 0

When we shrink from the world, our souls shrink, too, Votes: 0

Wilderness is a resource which can shrink but not grow. Votes: 0

My mother wanted to shrink from my clinging, but did not. Votes: 0

Life's perhaps the only riddle That we shrink from giving up. Votes: 0

Ah, how steadily do they who are guilty shrink from reproof! Votes: 0

My DVD cellophane was put on by a psychiatrist. It was shrink-wrapped. Votes: 0

The ministry is a weight from which even an angel might shrink Votes: 0

He that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity. Votes: 0

Visiting old haunts is hard on memory. Things shrink, change, and disappear. Votes: 0

In Hollywood if you don't have a shrink, people think you're crazy. Votes: 0

Country music has always been the best shrink that 15 bucks can buy. Votes: 0

Breastfeeding is amazing; you can actually feel your stomach shrink with every feed. Votes: 0

It's strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary. Votes: 0

We don't need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government. Votes: 0

Life will either shrink or expand based on your decision to have courage. Votes: 0

Without the support of American Jews, Israel would shrink to its normal size. Votes: 0

Even the stout of heart shrink when they see the approach of death. Votes: 0

You have to shrink yourself to fit into this little life with him. Votes: 0

Why do we shrink from change? What can come into being save by change? Votes: 0

I lived in New York for 10 years, and every New Yorker sees a shrink. Votes: 0

You are built not to shrink down to less but to blossom into more. Votes: 0

Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear. Votes: 0

I don't know what a shrink would call me. I don't want to know. Votes: 0

Celtic jerseys are not for second best, they don't shrink to fit inferior players Votes: 0

Don't shrink your standards, link yourself with those who think and ink like you. Votes: 0

When I don't write, I feel my world shrink. I lose my fire, my color. Votes: 0

... the Athenian lawmaker Solon decreed it a crime for any citizen to shrink from controversy. Votes: 0

The very minute a thought is threatened with publicity it seems to shrink towards mediocrity. Votes: 0

The problems seem so easy out there on the stump. Deficits shrink with a rhetorical flourish. Votes: 0

I'm even taller in person, because photographs shrink you down and steal your soul native american. Votes: 0

Will we fulfill God's purpose, or will we shrink back and live a comfortable, self-centered life? Votes: 0

Sometimes we shrink from leadership because our pride makes us afraid of failure. That's not humility. Votes: 0

My world did not shrink because I was a black female writer. It just got bigger. Votes: 0

Great talents, by the rust of long disuse, Grow lethargic and shrink from what they were. Votes: 0

Don't shrink to meet the expectations of others, grow to become the person you want to be. Votes: 0

Political stress is always apt to shrink the private arena and attach it on to the public Votes: 0

Thinking is the hardest and most exhausting of all labor; and hence many people shrink from it. Votes: 0

Water, water, everywhere,And all the boards did shrink;Water, water, everywhere,Nor any drop to drink. Votes: 0

Animals of all classes, old and young, shrink with instinctive fear from any strange object approaching them. Votes: 0

Our goal is to shrink government to the size where we can drown it in a bathtub. Votes: 0

Do not falter or shrink; But just think out your work, And just work out your think. Votes: 0

Without their money, the Jews will shrink into mere shadows of themselves, and the nightmare will be over. Votes: 0

As we expand our knowledge of good books, we shrink the circle of men whose company we appreciate. Votes: 0

I propose to beg no question to shrink from no conclusion, but to follow truth wherever it may lead. Votes: 0

Keep looking below surface appearances. Don't shrink from doing so just because you might not like what you find. Votes: 0

Keep looking below surface appearances. Don't shrink from doing so just because you might not like what you find Votes: 0

In order that one industry might grow or come into existence, a hundred other industries would have to shrink. Votes: 0

The words spoken by the leader of the free world can expand the frontiers of freedom or shrink them. Votes: 0

We live in an interdependent world. Every time you cut off somebody else's opportunities, you shrink your own horizons. Votes: 0

For liberty to expand, government must shrink. For the economy to grow, government must get out of the way. Votes: 0

We try, we fail, we posture, we aspire, we pontificate - and then we age, shrink, die, and vanish. Votes: 0

Sometimes, taking a job is like going to a shrink or something, where you get to know yourself better. Votes: 0

Compared to war, all other forms of human endeavor shrink to insignificance. God help me, I do love it so. Votes: 0

Without its daydreams, the self is apt to shrink down to the size and shape of the estimation of others Votes: 0

Raised voices lower esteem. Hot tempers cool friendships. Loose tongues stretch truth. Swelled heads shrink influence. Sharp words dull respect. Votes: 0

Cowards shrink from toil and peril, Vulgar souls attempt and fail; Men of mettle, nothing daunted, Persevere till they prevail. Votes: 0

I've learned that I shouldn't shrink from success. Though honestly I thought they'd be knocking on my door years ago. Votes: 0

Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it. Votes: 0

We are afraid of ideas, of experimenting, of change. We shrink from thinking a problem through to a logical conclusion. Votes: 0

We are afraid of ideas, of experimenting, of change. We shrink from thinking a problem through to a logical conclusion. Votes: 0

I wish that we could tumble them in the dryer for 30 minutes and get them to shrink, but that won't happen. Votes: 0

I'm going through a stage where the dumbest things make me bawl. I feel like I need to see a shrink. Votes: 0

[T]he only way to shrink the trade deficit is for the government to prohibit us from buying whatever we want. Votes: 0

I wonder if my shrink (sorry, psychiatrist) was a woman not a man I'd be in a better or worse state? Votes: 0

I'd play every day if I could. It's cheaper than a shrink and there are no telephones on my golf cart. Votes: 0

Every second of time is a doorway to unbounded possibilities. Yet if you are not open to them, these possibilities shrink. Votes: 0

We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller. We say to girls 'You can have ambition, but not too much'. Votes: 0

The debate on how to shrink the federal government is at the core of our problem of government not doing its job. Votes: 0

This is not the time to shrink back in fear. Move forward in faith. Get up every morning knowing you are gifted. Votes: 0

The sky is now indelible ink, The branches reft asunder; But you and I we do not shrink; We love the lovely thunder. Votes: 0

The conclusion of design flows naturally from the data; we should not shrink from it; we should embrace it and build on it. Votes: 0

How do I ask my shrink to stop responding to everything I say with, Too much information! and then giggling behind a pillow? Votes: 0

We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example. Votes: 0

Fate has carried me'Mid the thick arrows: I will keep my stand--Not shrink and let the shaft pass by my breastTo pierce another. Votes: 0

To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare to fail... failure is his world and the shrink from it desertion Votes: 0

I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Votes: 0

The world wants the kind of men who do not shrink from temporary defeats in life; but come again and wrestle triumph from defeat. Votes: 0

Camera phones threaten to turn everyone into amateur paparazzi. We are witnessing our personal space shrink because of the way technology is being used. Votes: 0

Men who shrink from penetration of the female body are paralyzed by justifiable apprehension, since they are returning to our uncanny site of origin. Votes: 0

Guard against the prestige of great names; see that your judgments are your own; and do not shrink from disagreement; no trusting without testing Votes: 0

Wilderness is a resource which can shrink but not grow... the creation of new wilderness in the full sense of the word is impossible. Votes: 0

People envision [looking inside the brain] as being very difficult. You had to take a spaceship, shrink it down, inject it into the bloodstream. Votes: 0

There is no evidence that government under Republicans will shrink. It`s simply a question of what the government will do and who will benefit. Votes: 0

I've never, ever had any therapy. Some might say I need it, but I've never seen a shrink or a psychologist or anything like that. Votes: 0

Prophets are those who take life as it is and expand it. They refuse to shrink a vision of tomorrow to the boundaries of yesterday. Votes: 0

I joke around sometimes and say that the DP [director of photography] is like a shrink for the director, but there's some truth in there. Votes: 0

Sometimes I shrink from your knowing what I have felt for you, and sometimes I am distressed that all of it you will never know. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

'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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Clothing sales plummet, rent delinquencies mount and even grocery sales shrink as gamblers, having tapped out their entertainment budgets, dip into dollars set aside for necessities Votes: 0

You take the lies out of him, and he'll shrink to the size of your hat; you take the malice out of him, and he'll disappear. Votes: 0

The future will be less predictable, forecast rises will shrink, company lifetimes will shrink, new entrants will proliferate and it's going to just get more unpredictable. Votes: 0

Sometimes it seems like there's more footnotes than text. This isn't something we're proud of, and over time we'd like to see our footnotes steadily shrink. Votes: 0

Be not afraid of absurdity; do not shrink from the fantastic. Within a dilemma, choose the most unheard-of, the most dangerous solution. Be brave, be brave. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

God does not delight in our sufferings. He brings only that which is necessary, but He does not shrink from that which will help us grow. Votes: 0

Fate has carried me 'Mid the thick arrows: I will keep my stand Not shrink and let the shaft pass by my breast To pierce another. Votes: 0

We may faint and we may sink Feel the pain and near the brink But the dark begins to shrink When you find the one who knows Votes: 0

The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together. Votes: 0

Ships and sails proper for the heavenly air should be fashioned. Then there will also be people, who do not shrink from the dreary vastness of space. Votes: 0

Much has been given us, and much will rightfully be expected from us. We have duties to others and duties to ourselves, and we can shrink neither. Votes: 0

The things which must be, must be for the best, God helps us do our duty and not shrink, And trust His mercy humbly for the rest. Votes: 0

There is no labor from which most people shrink as they do from that of sustained and consecutive thought; it is the hardest work in the world Votes: 0

Republicans don't want to shrink government. They want more and more military, more and more surveillance. They'd like to have the government banning gay marriage and so forth. Votes: 0

Maybe [I care about language] because I'm an editor, maybe because I'm picky, but it's all we got, don't shrink it. Don't dumb it out, make it little. Votes: 0

I believe we should all know each other, we human carriers of so many pleasurable differences. To not know is to doubt, to shrink from, sidestep or destroy. Votes: 0

Health care is much the same - the status quo is, by all measures, failing far too many people - and we must not shrink from the challenge. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare fail, that failure is his world and the shrink from desertion, art and craft, good housekeeping, living. Votes: 0

We who are like senseless children shrink from suffering, but love its causes. We hurt ourselves; our pain is self-inflicted! Why should others be the object of our anger? Votes: 0

The gospel confronts us with the hopelessness of our sinful condition. But we don't like what we see of ourselves in the gospel, so we shrink back from it. Votes: 0

'T is hers to pluck the amaranthine flower Of faith, and round the sufferer's temples bind Wreaths that endure affliction's heaviest shower, And do not shrink from sorrow's keenest wind. Votes: 0

Tex shrink-wrapped a dealer's BMW. Wrapped the wholething in plastic wrap and then used a portable blow drier on itto tighten the plastic. Wordhas it, it was several layers deep." Votes: 0

The tax rate increases reduce economic growth; they shrink the pie; they cause more poverty, more despair, more unemployment, which are all things government is trying to alleviate with spending. Votes: 0

I am not myself apt to be alarmed at innovations recommended by reason. That dread belongs to those whose interests or prejudices shrink from the advance of truth and science. Votes: 0

Many billions of years will elapse before the smallest, youngest stars complete their nuclear burning and shrink into white dwarfs. But with slow, agonizing finality perpetual night will surely fall. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The mind cannot be securely anchored. If we do not advance, we go backward. If we do not grow, we decay. If we do not develop, we shrink and shrivel. Votes: 0

Why do otherwise sane, competent, strong men, men who can wrestle bears or raid corporations, shrink away in horror at the thought of washing a dish or changing a diaper? Votes: 0

So often do you see collegians enter life with high resolve and lofty purpose and then watch them shrink and shrink to sordid, selfish, shrewd plodders, full of distrust and sneers. Votes: 0

But the prize for courage will surely be awarded most justly to those who best know the difference between hardship and pleasure and yet are never tempted to shrink from danger. Votes: 0

The highest form of success comes to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship or from bitter toil, and who, out of these, wins the splendid ultimate triumph. Votes: 0

I'd shrink government in a minute, if I could shrink GM, Bank of America, and all these immoral corporations that operate by an undemocratic code, with no soul and no conscience. Votes: 0

I asked a shrink: 'Everything is so great. Why am I still so angry?' He said, 'Anger doesn't go away.' I always thought it was kind of a good engine. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

So when that Angel of the darker Drink, at last shall find you by the river-brink, And, offering his Cup, invite your Soul forth to your Lips to quaff-you shall not shrink. Votes: 0

Taxation is not charity. It is not voluntary. As we shrink the state and make government smaller, we will find that more and more people are able to take care of themselves. Votes: 0

I'm always giving myself the Alzheimer's test. My shrink told me to do this. It takes one minute. You name every word that comes to mind that begins with the letter F. Votes: 0

'Game of Thrones' is taking dense novels and trying to shrink it all down to a slightly manageable series in the sense that there are so many characters and so many locations. Votes: 0

We shrink from the contemplation of our dead bodies, forgetting that when dead they are no longer ours, and concern us as little as the hairs that have fallen from our heads. Votes: 0

Some girl asked me for an autograph and I asked her why, she said because she admires me. I said she should see a shrink. Then she started crying and I started laughing. Votes: 0

(Adron leveled a scowl that made him shrink back.) Jeeze, you ought to bottle that look. I know armies that would pay a fortune to have something that toxic in their arsenal. (Tiernan) Votes: 0

What I know for sure is this: You are built not to shrink down to less, but to blossom into more. To be more extraordinary. To use every moment to fill yourself up. Votes: 0

. . . for beauty stands In the admiration only of weak minds Led captive. Cease to admire, and all her plumes Fall flat and shrink into a trivial toy, At every sudden slighting quite abash'd. Votes: 0

I always thought Tinker bell was really cool. I'd like to be able to shrink down to a really small size and fly around to places, play tricks on people... you know, fairy-like stuff. Votes: 0

There are in every generation those who shrink from the ultimate sacrifice, but there are in every generation those who make it with joy and laughter and these are the salt of the generations. Votes: 0

Yes, I was one of the slightly vintage women who let out a shriek when we saw it at Costco: 'The Nancy Drew Mystery Stories', a complete boxed set, fifty-six familiar yellow spines, shrink-wrapped. Votes: 0

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) Votes: 0

Shields Green was not one to shrink from hardships or dangers. He was a man of few words, and his speech was singularly broken; but his courage and self-respect made him quite a dignified character. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0