48 Shrinking Quotes for You to Enjoy

I'm not the sort to back away from a fight. I don't believe in shrinking from anything. It's not my speed; I'm a guy who meets adversities head on. John Wayne

Fight Believe Speed Back Meets Guy Head Adversities Sort Anything Who Shrinking Away

You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us. Marianne Williamson

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

Blame Hate People Anxiety Fear Somebody Fears Leader Those Pie Look Real Afraid Speaks Shrinking

There will never be another Ed Koch. He was an original, but he represented a significant, if shrinking, segment of American Jewry who refused to compromise their liberal values, their support for Israel or their Jewish pride. Alan Dershowitz

Pride Will Values Liberal Significant Compromise Segment Never He Support Another Israel American Refused Who Original Shrinking Jewish

My friends say that at school I was quite bossy. I still am a bit bossy, but a nice bossy. I've always been very strong-minded, even as a little girl. But I'm a great friend, and I've never been in a fight in my life. I think it's nice to be nice, especially because I've never been scared to stick up for myself. I'm not a shrinking violet. Alesha Dixon

Life Myself Great Fight School Be Nice Girl My Life Nice Think Say Bit Scared Bossy Never Because Stick Always Am Still Been Friend Up Friends Very Quite Little Little Girl Even Shrinking Violet

I was desperately shy when I was wee. Totally lacked confidence socially. When I look back at school photographs, I'm always the one shrinking in the back. What I really wanted to do was become a writer, and I don't think the residue of that has ever gone away. I still feel the ultimate achievement would be to write a novel. Anne-Marie Duff

Achievement Confidence School Become Gone Think Desperately Back Would Would-Be Photographs Totally Wee Write Writer Feel Look Always Still Ultimate Wanted Really Novel Shrinking Away Ever Socially Shy

In 1994, Estonia became the first European country to adopt a flat tax, and its 26 percent flat tax dramatically energized what had been a faltering economy. Before adopting the flat tax, the Estonian economy was literally shrinking. In the eight years after 1994, Estonia experienced real economic growth - averaging 5.2 percent per year. Arthur Laffer

First Country Year Before Dramatically Per Percent Adopt Adopting Economic Economic Growth Had Economy Became Real Been Years Eight Tax Experienced Literally After Flat Flat Tax Estonia European Shrinking Growth

The memoir industry is, what's the word? Under regulated. I think it needs to be pruned. If there are too many books right now and the market for readers is shrinking, I think we can get rid of many of the memoirs. Another memoir should be awfully well justified before it gets published. Arthur Phillips

Bell Labs was an astonishing place for many decades, though it fell on somewhat hard times during the telecom meltdown some years ago, as its corporate owner had to cope with shrinking markets. Brian Kernighan

Corporate Telecom Astonishing Markets Meltdown Though Some Somewhat Had Fell Years Years Ago Times Decades Labs Owner Place Hard Many Hard Times Shrinking Bell Cope

I got overwhelmed by the magnitude of the celebrity culture in America. My background is as a news journalist, and newsrooms in the US are shrinking - investigation teams are being terminated or shrunk on newspapers all around the country. The one aspect that's expanded is coverage of celebrity culture. Carl Hiaasen

News Culture Journalist Country Background One Aspect All-Around Magnitude Investigation Terminated Around Got Coverage Celebrity Overwhelmed Celebrity Culture America Being Newspapers Us Aspect Teams Shrinking Shrunk

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. Daniel Kahneman

People Difficult Negotiations Easygoing More Tend Allocation Over Pie Because Losses Expanding Much Require Bargain Shrinking

Labor is getting a shrinking slice of a pie that's not growing very much. David Autor

Slice Pie Very Labor Getting Much Growing Shrinking

The world is shrinking, and everyone is majorly interested in Indian films now. Dhanush

World Films Everyone Indian Interested Now Shrinking

While editors and newspaper owners currently fret over shrinking readership and lost profits, they do the one thing that insures cutting their own throats; they keep reducing space for the one feature that attracts new young readers in the first place; the comic strips. Elayne Boosler

Space First Lost Own Young Strips One Thing Feature Throats Over New Attracts First Place Readers Readership Comic Editors Reducing Comic Strips Fret Owners Currently The One Thing Place While Newspaper Cutting Keep Shrinking Thing Profits

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

Great Gay People Own Down Think Great Guy Moral Joe Religious Religious Right Guy Having Voice He Majority Coming Been Loud America Going Quite Sudden Sudden People Shrinking Street Right

I have a proven record, a record of accomplishment, a record of cutting taxes, of shrinking the government, of reforming education, of challenging the status quo, eliminating career civil service protections, shrinking the government workforce by 11 percent, but leading the nation in job growth. Jeb Bush

Education Service Government Job Nation Job Growth Status Status Quo Civil Record Civil Service Percent Leading Proven Accomplishment Reforming Quo Taxes Cutting Workforce Shrinking Challenging Growth Career

By the mid-17th century, telescopes had improved enough to make visible the seasonally growing and shrinking polar ice caps on Mars, and features such as Syrtis Major, a dark patch thought to be a shallow sea. John Updike

Dark Thought Enough Visible Mars Shallow Features Had Polar Major Make Patch Improved Ice Century Sea Caps Growing Shrinking

Whatever its origin, I'd like to see a cure for the Incredibly Shrinking Actress phenomena. Julia Stiles

Whatever Incredibly See Like Cure Origin Actress Shrinking Phenomena

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