#shrink

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

We must continue to pursue peace through diplomacy, but we must also not shrink from our responsibility through the option of strength. We must take advantage of internal resistance and change from within Iran to avert this path of mutual destruction. ↗

— Michael McCaul

#also #avert #change #continue #destruction

Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first - rock and roll or Christianity. ↗

— John Lennon

#christianity #first #go #i #jesus

Seeing my malevolent face in the mirror, my benevolent soul shrinks back. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#benevolent #face #malevolent #mirror #seeing

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

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

— Hugh Sidey

#easy #flourish #out #problems #rhetorical

All of journalism is a shrinking art. So much of it is hype. The O.J. Simpson story is a landmark in the decline of journalism. ↗

— Dick Schaap

#decline #hype #journalism #landmark #much

We try, we fail, we posture, we aspire, we pontificate - and then we age, shrink, die, and vanish. ↗

— George Saunders

#aspire #die #fail #pontificate #posture

We are trapped here up on this wall by an evil beyond comprehension. It is here that we are damned to remain for all eternity, under the grime of centuries, beyond time. When even the paint falls off and these prison-canvases are bare again… well, then we are in limbo,” the poor man opened his eyes wide giving them a ghostly look. ↗

— Nathalie M. Leblanc

#friendship-true-and-loyal #magic #self-esteem #shrinking-forward #friendship