Shrinking Quotes
Shrinking Quote of the day
History is always written by the victor, and the histories of the losing parties belong to the shrinking circle of those who were there.
There will be no misgiving, no shrinking back, no calculation of overpowering odds, no terror of possible consequences, if you frankly accept the gift which God offers you tomorrow.
The rhino is now more or less extinct, and it's not because of global warming or shrinking habitats. It's because of Beyonce's handbags.
We simply must balance our demand for energy with our rapidly shrinking resources. By acting now we can control our future instead of letting the future control us.
There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive.
More than ever, the world needs good engineers. However, the pool of talent is shrinking not growing.
If left unchecked, global change will create violent conflict, torrential storms, shrinking coastlines, and irreversible catastrophe.
Most of us are shrinking in the face of psycho-social and physical poisons, of the toxins of our world. But compassion, the generation of compassion, actually mobilizes our immunity.
When I see a paragraph shrinking under my eyes like a strip of bacon in a skillet, I know I'm on the right track.
All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.
This is the true liberty of Christ, when a free man binds himself in love to duty. Not in shrinking from our distasteful occupations, but in fulfilling them, do we realize our high origin.
I have no fear nor shrinking; I have seen death so often that it is not strange or fearful to me.
In times of shrinking expectations,... everyone feels like a victim and pushes away outsiders to defend his own corner.
The world is shrinking together; it is finding itself neighbor to itself in strange, almost magic degree.
When I first came out of Argentina to Europe, the flight took 36 hours. Now it takes 12 hours, and the world is still shrinking.
If you can do it, it ain't braggin'... it's a matter of self-confidence. I got where I did because I wasn't no shrinking violet.
In this shrinking world, it is futile to seek safety behind geographical barriers. Real security will be found only in law and in justice.
The polar bear for many has become a living symbol of the dangers of global warming. The powerful kings of the arctic are finding their habitat shrinking.
Shrinking someone's stomach to the size of a walnut with surgery is one way to battle obesity and diabetes and may be lifesaving for a few, but it doesn't address the underlying causes.
For we, the people, understand that our country cannot succeed when a shrinking few do very well and a growing many barely make it.
Negotiations over a shrinking pie are especially difficult because they require an allocation of losses. People tend to be much more easygoing when they bargain over an expanding pie.
The world is sagging, snagging, scaling, spalling, pilling, pinging, pitting, warping, checking, fading, chipping, cracking, yellowing, leaking, stalling, shrinking, and in dynamic unbalance.
Plays are getting smaller and smaller, not because playwrights minds are shrinking but because of the economics.
Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum.
All of journalism is a shrinking art. So much of it is hype. The O.J. Simpson story is a landmark in the decline of journalism.
When you are frightened, you typically pull energy in to your center, seeing less, hearing less-shrinking consciousness precisely when you need to expand it.
I feel like you have to tell people who you are, but you don't have to be disrespectful about it. But you also don't have to be a shrinking violet.
CHILDHOOD: The rapidly shrinking interval between infancy and first arrest on a drug or weapons charge.
The conversation on global warming has been stalled because a shrinking group of denialists fly into a rage when it's mentioned.
Inuring children gently to suffer some degrees of pain without shrinking, is a way to gain firmness to their minds, and lay a foundation for courage and resolution in the future part of their lives.
Nominee. A modest gentleman shrinking from the distinction of private life and diligently seeking the honorable obscurity of public office.
With the shrinking of the US economy, and it's shrinking very rapidly, you not only have more money, but you also have fewer goods. That's a classic double-whammy on inflation.
The world is shrinking as we see more and more of it in the media, and the more we see of the world, the smaller we are, the more aware we are of how insignificant any one of us is.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people will not feel insecure around you.
dogma and shrinking from the external world are at one limit of the range of belief. At the other are science and poetry and, indeed, reality.
We are shrinking the size of the federal government as a percent of our economy from over 21 percent of the economy to 19 percent of the economy. At the same time, we're growing the private economy.
There is no example on the planet of a successful economy with broadly shared prosperity and a shrinking, weak government.
When I don't write, I feel my world shrinking. I feel I am in a prison. I feel I lose my fire and my color. It should be a necessity, as the sea needs to heave, and I call it breathing.
I think you can't deny that because the cochlear implant exists, the signing world is shrinking.
With that gentleness I can be bold; with that economy I can be liberal; shrinking from taking precedence of others, I can become a vessel of the highest honour.
Iran's economy is now shrinking by 1 percent a year. Its oil production is down 40 percent.
The globe is shrinking, the information age is bringing a lot of changes. People are anxious about their future and their children's futures.
The beauty of Twitter is that more and more people are flocking to it because it's shrinking their world.
The German birthrate is below replacement levels, meaning the population is shrinking, meaning fewer and fewer people of age to join the labor force.
