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“A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.”

Author:Tacitus

“The wounded limb shrinks from the slightest touch; and a slight shadow alarms the nervous. [Lat., Membra reformidant mollem quoque saucia tactum: Vanaque sollicitis incutit umbra metum.]”

Fear Shadow Nervous Wounded Limbs Shrinks Alarms

Author:Ovid

“Deference often shrinks and withers as much upon the approach of intimacy as the sensitive plant does upon the touch of one's finger.”

Doe Approach Plant Fingers Intimacy Sensitive Shrinks Deference

Book:The Works in Verse and Prose, of William Shenstone, Esq;: Essays on men, manners, and things. A description of The Leasowes, the seat of the late William Shenstone, Esq. Verses to Mr. Shenstone

Source: The Works in Verse and Prose, of William Shenstone, Esq;: Essays on men, manners, and things. A description of The Leasowes, the seat of the late William Shenstone, Esq. Verses to Mr. Shenstone

“War, even in the best state of an army, with all the alleviations of courtesy and honor, with all the correctives of morality and religion, is nevertheless so great an evil, that to engage in it without a clear necessity is a crime of the blackest dye. When the necessity is clear, it then becomes a crime to shrink from it.”

War States Evil Clear Crime Honor Morality Army Nevertheless Shrinks Courtesy Morality And Religion

Author:Robert Southey

“Memory must be patchy; what is more alarming is its face-savingness. Something in one shrinks from catching it out - unique to oneself, one's own, one's claim to identity, it implicates one's identity in its fibbing.”

Faces Memories Identity Unique Claims Oneself Shrinks Catching

Author:Elizabeth Bowen

“However long the horror continued, one must not get to the stage of refusing to think about it. To shrink from direct pain was bad enough, but to shrink from vicarious pain was the ultimate cowardice. And whereas to conceal direct pain was a virtue, to conceal vicarious pain was a sin. Only by feeling it to the utmost, and by expressing it, could the rest of the world help to heal the injury which had caused it. Money, food, clothing, shelter - people could give all these and still it would not be enough; it would not absolve them from paying also, in full, the imponderable tribute of grief.”

Source: A pocketful of pebbles

“I wonder whether our adoption of Shrink-ese as a second language, the move from religious phrases of judgment to secular words of acceptance, hasn't also produced a moral lobotomy. In the reluctance, the aversion to being judgmental, are we disabled from making any judgments at all?”

Moving Language Religious Wonder Moral Acceptance Judgment Phrases Adoption Secular Shrinks Disabled Judgmental Aversion Reluctance Lobotomy Being Judgmental

Author:Ellen Goodman

“[On Jane Austen:] To believe her limited in range because she was harmonious in method is as sensible as to imagine that when the Atlantic Ocean is as smooth as a mill-pond it shrinks to the size of a mill-pond.”

Believe Imagine Ocean Method Size Range Sensible Imagine That Smooth Shrinks Jane Harmonious Mills Ponds Austen Atlantic Ocean

Book:The Strange Necessity: Essays and Reviews

Source: The Strange Necessity: Essays and Reviews

“Natural villains are hard to come by, what with all the shrinks and social-scientist types threatening to understand everybody into the ground.”

Hard Evil Social Natural Type Scientist Villain Threatening Shrinks

Book:Talking woman

Source: Talking woman

“I believe we should all know each other, we human carriers of so many pleasurable differences. To not know is to doubt, to shrink from, sidestep or destroy.”

Knows Should Believe Humans I Believe Differences Doubt Shrinks Carrier

Author:Gwendolyn Brooks

“... everyone's free to embark on either a great clipper or a little fishing boat. An artist is an explorer who oughtn't to shrink from anything: it doesn't matter whether he goes to the left or the right -- his goal sanctifies all.”

Littles Matter Artist Left Goal Boat Fishing Shrinks Explorers Sanctify Fishing Boats

Book:Flaubert - Sand: the correspondence

Source: Flaubert - Sand: the correspondence

“Relativity challenges your basic intuitions that you've built up from everyday experience. It says your experience of time is not what you think it is, that time is malleable. Your experience of space is not what you think it is; it can stretch and shrink.”

Thinking Challenges Space Built Everyday Intuition Shrinks Relativity

Author:Brian Greene

“Ah, but depression - that is what we all hate. We the afflicted. Whereas the relatives and shrinks, the tribal ring, they rather welcome it: you are quiet and you suffer.”

Suffering Hate Quiet Depression Rings Welcome Shrinks

Book:The Loony-bin Trip

Source: The Loony-bin Trip

“Women are socialized to be nice, to be docile. I call it 'shrink to fit': Shrink yourself to fit what others expect of you.”

Women Nice Fit Sexism Being Nice Shrinks Docile

Author:Meg Ryan

“The widest thing in the universe is not space; it is the potential capacity of the human heart. Being made in the image of God, it is capable of almost unlimited extension in all directions. And one of the world's greatest tragedies is that we allow our hearts to shrink until there is room in them for little besides ourselves.”

World Humans Heart Littles Made Universe Space Rooms Capable Capacity Tragedy Extensions Unlimited Human Heart Shrinks God Image

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“My brain and my heart are really important to me. I don't know why I wouldn't seek help to have those things be as healthy as my teeth. I go to the dentist. So why wouldn't I go to a shrink?”

Knows Heart Important Helping Brain My Heart Healthy Teeth Shrinks Dentist

Author:Kerry Washington

“poverty is like a pain, dormant and unbearable as long as you don't move about too much. You grow used to it, you end up by paying no attention to it. But once you presume to bring it out in the daylight, it becomes terrifying, you see it at last in all its squalor and you shrink from exposing it to the sun.”

Long Ends Pain Lasts Moving Used Grows Attention Poverty Sun Too Much Shrinks Unbearable Daylight Exposing Dormant Squalor

Author:Gabrielle Roy

“A minute analysis of life at once destroys that splendor which dazzles the imagination. Whatsoever grandeur can display, or luxury enjoy, is procured by offices of which the mind shrinks from the contemplation. All the delicacies of the table may be traced back to the shambles and the dunghill; all magnificence of building was hewn from the quarry, and all the pomp of ornament dug from among the damps and darkness of the mine.”

Source: The beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: consisting of maxims and observations, moral, critical, and miscellaneous: to which are now added biographical anecdotes of the doctor, selected from the works of Mrs. Piozzi;--his Life, recently published by Mr. Boswell, and other authentic testimonies; also his will, and the sermon he wrote for the late Doctor Dodd

“The things which must be, must be for the best, God helps us do our duty and not shrink, And trust His mercy humbly for the rest.”

Helping Duty Mercy Shrinks God Help God Help Us Best God

Author:Bill Vaughan

“. . . for beauty stands In the admiration only of weak minds Led captive. Cease to admire, and all her plumes Fall flat and shrink into a trivial toy, At every sudden slighting quite abash'd.”

Mind Fall Beauty Weak Cease Admire Flats Admiration Toys Shrinks Captives Weak Minds

Book:Paradise Regain'd: A Poem in Four Books

Source: Paradise Regain'd: A Poem in Four Books

“Some days confidence shrinks to the size of a pea, and the backbone feels like a feather. We want to be somewhere else, and don't know where - want to be someone else and don't know who.”

Knows Want Feels Size Feathers Shrinks Somewhere Else Dissatisfaction Backbone Peas

Book:The Shape of a Year

Source: The Shape of a Year

“I loathe hair salons. People have always told me I am in the wrong business because I can't stand getting my hair cut or having it messed around with. Hairdressers feel as if they've got to be your shrinks. I just want them to do my hair so I can get out of there.”