#shrink

The ugly is very appealing to man. It's instinct. One shrinks from the ugly, yet wants to look at it. There's a devilish fascination in it. We extract pleasure from horror. ↗

— Sonya Levien

#devilish #extract #fascination #horror #instinct

I don't think life is absurd. I think we are all here for a huge purpose. I think we shrink from the immensity of the purpose we are here for. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#here #huge #i #i think #immensity

I continue to vote against such spending increases, but sometimes I think some of my Republican colleagues forgot that we were sent here to shrink the federal government, not to grow it. ↗

— Jeff Miller

#colleagues #continue #federal #federal government #forgot

Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free. ↗

— Jim Morrison

#deepest #expose #fear #free #freedom

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. ↗

— Anais Nin

#expands #life #proportion #shrinks

Our goal is to shrink government to the size where we can drown it in a bathtub. ↗

— Grover Norquist

#drown #goal #government #our #shrink

Although there's a lot of focus on the Lib Dems, we need to keep our eyes on the far right of the Tories, who I suspect will become increasingly impatient in their appetite for tax cuts, deregulation and shrinking the state even further. ↗

— Frances O'Grady

#appetite #become #cuts #deregulation #even

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

Iran's economy is now shrinking by 1 percent a year. Its oil production is down 40 percent. ↗

— Susan Rice

#economy #iran #now #oil #oil production

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

— Hugh Sidey

#easy #flourish #out #problems #rhetorical