#shrink

To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available, the judicial mind atrophies and its perspective shrinks. ↗

— Irving R. Kaufman

#atrophies #available #becomes #cases #daily

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. ↗

— Arthur Laffer

#classic #economy #fewer #goods #inflation

How many people have a family grave in the backyard? I'm sure I'll end up there, or I'll shrink my head and put it in a glass box in the living room. I'll get more tourists to Graceland that way. ↗

— Lisa Marie Presley

#box #end #family #get #glass

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

— Hugh Sidey

#easy #flourish #out #problems #rhetorical

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

— Leelee Sobieski

#get #going #job #know #know yourself

There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#earmarks #fugitive #most #ourselves #passionate

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

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

— James Caan

#going #him #i #i quit #once

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

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