Quotes by Shrinking The world is shrinking as we see more and more of it in the media, and the more we see of the world, the smaller we are, the more aware we are of how insignificant any one of us is. Jock Sturges shrinkingmediaartist The old internet is shrinking and being replaced by walled gardens over which Google's crawlers can't climb. John Battelle shrinkinginternetgarden The region of the mysterious is rapidly shrinking. John Desmond Bernal shrinkingmysteriousscience There is beauty everywhere on earth, but there is greater beauty in those places where one feels that sense of ease which comes from no longer having to put off one’s dreams until some improbable future – a future inexorably shrinking away; where the fear that has pervaded one’s life suddenly vanishes because there is... nothing to be afraid of. Josef Skvorecky beauty-everywhereshrinkingdream There will be no misgiving, no shrinking back, no calculation of overpowering odds, no terror of possible consequences, if you frankly accept the gift which God offers you tomorrow. Joseph Barber Lightfoot shrinkingtomorrowodds 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. Juan Manuel Fangio argentinashrinkingeurope I feel like you have to tell people who you are, but you don't have to be disrespectful about it. But you also don't have to be a shrinking violet. Keke Palmer shrinkingvioletpeople Femininity itself has become a brand, a narrow and shrinking formula of commoditised identity which can be sold back to women who have become alienated from their own power as living, loving, labouring beings. Laurie Penny femininityshrinkingidentity With that gentleness I can be bold; with that economy I can be liberal; shrinking from taking precedence of others, I can become a vessel of the highest honour. Laozi honourshrinkingeconomy Sin has a way of shrinking God down and puffing ourselves up. Louie Giglio shrinkingdown-andway Plays are getting smaller and smaller, not because playwrights minds are shrinking but because of the economics. Lynn Nottage shrinkingmindplay Shrinking someone's stomach to the size of a walnut with surgery is one way to battle obesity and diabetes and may be lifesaving for a few, but it doesn't address the underlying causes. Mark Hyman, M.D. shrinkingaddressesbattle There is nothing enlightening about shrinking so that other people Marianne Williamson shrinkingenlighteningpeople After a moment of shrinking back, we domesticate the grotesque. Mason Cooley grotesqueshrinkingmoments When I say the economy is shrinking, it's the economy of the 99%, the people who have to work for a living and depend on earning money for what they can spend. The 1% makes its money basically by lending out their money to the 99%, on charging interest and speculating. So the stock market's doubled, the bond market's gone way up, and the 1% are earning more money than ever before, but the 99% are not. They're having to pay the 1%. Michael Hudson shrinkinggonepeople When Hillary Clinton said she's going to do just what Obama does and we're going to continue to recover, most people know that we're not recovering at all. We're shrinking. Michael Hudson shrinkingdoepeople Basically, unless you're willing to write down debts and save the economy, you're going to have deflation and a steady drain in purchasing power - that is, shrinking markets. Michael Hudson shrinkingdebtwriting People have to pay so much money to the banks that they don't have enough money to buy the goods and services they produce. So there's not much new investment, there's not new employment (except minimum-wage "service" jobs), markets are shrinking, and people are defaulting. So many companies can't pay their banks. Michael Hudson shrinkingjobspeople 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. Muriel Rukeyser shrinkingrealityworld In times of shrinking expectations,... everyone feels like a victim and pushes away outsiders to defend his own corner. Oscar Handlin shrinkingimmigrationexpectations«123»
