#shrink

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

— William Henry Hudson

#approaching #classes #fear #instinctive #object

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. ↗

— Mark Hyman

#battle #causes #diabetes #few #may

People are afraid, and when people are afraid, when their pie is shrinking, they look for somebody to hate. They look for somebody to blame. And a real leader speaks to anxiety and to fear and allays those fears, assuages anxiety. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#anxiety #blame #fear #fears #hate

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. ↗

— Joseph Barber Lightfoot

#back #calculation #consequences #frankly #gift

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. ↗

— Og Mandino

#apply #become #cries #efforts #grain

I think the moral majority and religious right have been shrinking and having not quite as loud a voice in America, and all of a sudden people are coming to their own realizations going, 'Joe down the street is gay and he's a great guy.' ↗

— Jason Priestley

#been #coming #down #gay #going

I don't know how I dealt with it. I went to a shrink. ↗

— Lynn Redgrave

#how #i #know #shrink #went

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#knowledge #shrinks #wisdom

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. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#disposal #each #elastic #feel #fills

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