Shrinks Quotations

Folks are always talking about 40 acres and a mule, but what we need is some psychoanalysis. Forget 40 acres in a mule: sign all of us up for some shrinks so we can get ourselves right by reflecting and truly learning ourselves.

Sadly, if President Obama is willing to ignore the pain of race-based discrimination and injustice so as to make whites comfortable - and this, after he has already been elected and the campaign is long over - then the likelihood he will ever speak the truth about these matters, let alone address them, shrinks to nearly zero.

My DVD cellophane was put on by a psychiatrist. It was shrink-wrapped.

Whenever you see shrinks on television, they're so clearly written by patients. They're either idealized or they're demonized or they love their patients. All they ever think about is their patients.

A good butcher is important to have. It's like a shrink.

We think 750,000 (units) is the best prediction based on today's fuel prices. I think we may maintain our volume at other people's expense, even if the segment shrinks a little bit.

It is known that the brain shrinks over the course of a person's life, although the exact trajectory is not well understood, and there are huge individual differences.

Our costs are going up in every category players, travel, you name it. Our budget never shrinks from year to year, it only grows.

The fact is most Caucasians, most American Indians, don't have much time for this issue at all, ... They don't think it's really important when you look at things like unemployment, the need for economic development, health care needs, education, methamphetamines - all the big issues of the day - this one pales and shrinks almost to nothing in comparison.

I will never shrink from speaking truth to power,

Trading volume shrinks to its lowest level at this time of the year, as the fiscal year draws to end. Along with that ... there are no leads now.

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

Twitter and social media have so changed the game for filmmakers, but especially for artists. It shrinks the world and gives chance to feel like they know you. But it's a blessing and a curse. It can help build you up, but there's also such anonymity.

When I went to bed as a child, I was told, 'You don't know where you'll wake up.' When I ran in the garden, I was told that running was bad for the heart. Everything had its sinister aspect - milk shrinks the stomach, lemon thins the blood.

The population shrinks due to fewer children being born and a continuing rate of out-migration. The oil industry, especially offshore, needs lots of capital but it doesn't need a lot of workers.

The way we live is changing. Each year, our free time shrinks a little more as computers clamor for an increasing percentage of our attention.

Housing prices in many communities will appreciate less rapidly --- and in some communities actually fall. This reduces the wealth effect from real estate assets, shrinks home equity borrowing, and increases pressure on households to replenish their savings.

All sweetness and glory, a rose never shrinks from its magnificence.

You can't shrink your way to greatness!

You have to shrink yourself to fit into this little life with him.

Dancers dance through their pain I shrink from mine.

A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.

...greatness sympathises with greatness, and littleness shrinks into itself.

He that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity.

Why don't sheep shrink when it rains?

Why do we shrink from change? What can come into being save by change?