#shrink

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. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#brave #business #conduct #conscience #death

If left unchecked, global change will create violent conflict, torrential storms, shrinking coastlines, and irreversible catastrophe. ↗

— Valerie Jarrett

#change #coastlines #conflict #create #global

You know, in a workplace, when you shrink the size of a workforce, there is pain there. But there is no question: we have a government that we can no longer afford.That is the cold, hard fact. So we have to make this more efficient. We have to sunset programs that no longer work. We have to eliminate waste and fraud. We must do this. ↗

— Meg Whitman

#cold #efficient #eliminate #fact #fraud

All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness. ↗

— John Ruskin

#come #darkness #first #gazing #great

A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives. ↗

— Albert Schweitzer

#anything #assist #compulsion #ethical #help

From cell phones to computers, quality is improving and costs are shrinking as companies fight to offer the public the best product at the best price. But this philosophy is sadly missing from our health-care insurance system. ↗

— John Shadegg

#cell #cell phones #companies #computers #costs

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. ↗

— Jock Sturges

#aware #how #insignificant #media #more

When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing. ↗

— Tacitus

#her #lost #nothing #she #shrink

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

#curls #finger #heart #his #into

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

— Anne Sullivan Macy

#change #conclusion #experimenting #ideas #logical