Visiting old haunts is hard on memory. Things shrink, change, and disappear.
The world is the expanding Greece and Greece is the shrinking world.
I'm confident that I'm as intelligent as many people, but I know that I'm not as intelligent as some. So in the presence of hyperintelligent people, I'm a shrinking violet because I don't want to look like a fool. I know a little about a lot and a lot about a little.
If you can do it, it ain't braggin'... it's a matter of self-confidence. I got where I did because I wasn't no shrinking violet.
dogma and shrinking from the external world are at one limit of the range of belief. At the other are science and poetry and, indeed, reality.
I was once six feet tall, but at 85, I'm now five feet four.
Awareness is very, very important because we're living in a world which is literally shrinking by the day. We are global citizens. So, for us not to be aware of what's happening to our neighbor is almost sad. Once you're aware, then you can decide what cause you want to dedicate your time to.
CHILDHOOD: The rapidly shrinking interval between infancy and first arrest on a drug or weapons charge.
He slipped away slowly, withdrawing from this world by small, imperceptible degrees, and in the end it was as if he were a drop of water evaporating in the sun, shrinking and shrinking until at last he wasn’t there anymore.
The beauty of Twitter is that more and more people are flocking to it because it's shrinking their world.
In that shrinking moment he discovered that he had never hated anyone until now. It was a feeling as pure as love, but dispassionate and icily rational.
Why on earth declutter when you can just shrinkwrap?
You can't shrink your way to greatness!
There is nothing enlightening about shrinking so that other people
The world is sagging, snagging, scaling, spalling, pilling, pinging, pitting, warping, checking, fading, chipping, cracking, yellowing, leaking, stalling, shrinking, and in dynamic unbalance.
The conversation on global warming has been stalled because a shrinking group of denialists fly into a rage when it's mentioned.
This is the true liberty of Christ, when a free man binds himself in love to duty. Not in shrinking from our distasteful occupations, but in fulfilling them, do we realize our high origin.
After a moment of shrinking back, we domesticate the grotesque.
There is no example on the planet of a successful economy with broadly shared prosperity and a shrinking, weak government.
When I first came out of Argentina to Europe, the flight took 36 hours. Now it takes 12 hours, and the world is still shrinking.
Chew on this: Human teeth can detect a grain of sand or grit 10 microns in diameter. A micron is 1/25,000 of an inch. If you shrank a Coke can until it was the diameter of a human hair, the letter O in the product name would be about 10 microns across.
When I see a paragraph shrinking under my eyes like a strip of bacon in a skillet, I know I'm on the right track.
The old internet is shrinking and being replaced by walled gardens over which Google's crawlers can't climb.
The region of the mysterious is rapidly shrinking.
When it comes to letting the world in on the secrets of his heart, he has about as much shrinking reticence as a steam calliope.
