Shrinks Quotes - Page 6

• 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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• The ministry is a weight from which even an angel might shrink

  Saint Augustine

  Angel, Ministry, Weight

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• Prayer is the lungs through which holiness breathes. Prayer is not only the language of spiritual life, but also makes its very essence and forms its real character. O for a faith that will not shrink though pressed by every foe; That will not tremble on the brink of any earthly woe. Lord, give us such a faith as this... whatever may come.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Spiritual, Prayer, Real

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

  Nicolaus Copernicus

  Heaven, Doe, Earth

  Nicolaus Copernicus (1978). “On the revolutions”

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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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• 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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• Oh, that the wise from their bright minds would kindle
  Such lamps within the dome of this dim world
  That the pale name of priest might shrink and dwindle
  Into the Hell from which it first was furled.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Wise, Names, Mind

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• A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Distance, Insightful, Bigs

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• But it's daylight," she said at last. "Vampires can't go out in the sun, everyone knows that!" Bones chuckled. "Right And we shrink back from crosses, can't travel over water, and always get staked in the end by the righteous slayer. Really, who'd be afraid of a creature like that? All you'd need is a Bible, a tanning bed, and some holy water to send us shivering to our dooms.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Water, Vampire, Needs

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• You stand up to bullies. Don't shrink back. You fight back with all your strength, and the press is going to have to do it, politicians are going to have to do it, all of us are going to have to do it.

  Barbara Boxer

  Fighting, Bully, Politician

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• There are certain mortal moments and minutes that matter. Certain hingepoints in the history of each human. Some seconds are so decisive they shrink the soul, while others are spent, so as to stretch the soul.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Choices, Soul, Matter

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• The price is certainly high for people who don’t know Christ and who live in a world where Christians shrink back from self-denying faith and settle into self-indulging faith. While Christians choose to spend their lives fulfilling the American dream instead of giving their lives to proclaiming the kingdom of God, literally billions in need of the Gospel remain in the dark

  David Platt

  Christian, Dream, Dark

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• The walls of this elevator are made of crystal so that you can watch the people on the ground floor shrink to ants as you shoot up into the air. It's exhilarating and I'm tempted to ask Effie Trinket if we can ride it again, but somehow that seems childish.

  Suzanne Collins

  Wall, Air, People

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.68, Scholastic Inc.

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• To the untrue man, the whole universe is false- it is impalpable- it shrinks to nothing within his grasp. And he himself is in so far as he shows himself in a false light, becomes a shadow, or, indeed, ceases to exist.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Men, Light, Shadow

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2012). “The Scarlet Letter Thrift Study Edition”, p.100, Courier Corporation

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• I try to believe in as many as six impossible things before breakfast. Count them, Alice. One, there are drinks that make you shrink. Two, there are foods that make you grow. Three, animals can talk. Four, cats can disappear. Five, there is a place called Underland. Six, I can slay the Jabberwocky.

  Lewis Carroll

  Believe, Cat, Animal

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• I go to the dentist, not a shrink.

  Takashi Miike

  Dentist

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• (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)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Army, Toxic, Looks

  Sherrilyn Kenyon, Maggie Shayne, Suzanne Forster, Virginia Kantra (2004). “Man of My Dreams”, p.38, Penguin

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• The irony of man's condition is that the deepest need is to be free of the anxiety of death and annihilation; but it is life itself which awakens it, and so we must shrink from being fully alive.

  Ernest Becker

  Inspirational Life, Men, Anxiety

  Ernest Becker (2007). “The Denial of Death”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

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• Really, according to the shrinks, I am angry at everyone ever. Especially them. I am all anger and resentment all the time. Not one of them has ever suggested that maybe I lie because the world is better the way I tell it.

  Justine Larbalestier

  Lying, World, Way

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