Wanting what others have, can only diminish what you…

I am a little older and understand the nature of the business - the older you get the more your skills supposedly diminish, but…

— Randy Moss

Conversation augments pleasure and diminishes pain by our having shares in either; for silent woes are greatest, as silent satisfaction leas; since sometimes our…

— William Wycherley

You snipe so steady, you snub so snide, so rip and ready to diminish and deride.

— Joni Mitchell

For you deal here above all with human life, and human life is sacred; no one may dare make an attempt upon it. Respect…

— Pope Paul VI

These fiery trials are designed to make you stronger, but they have the potential to diminish or even destroy your trust in the Son…

— Neil L. Andersen

As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends correspondingly to increase. And the dictator will do well to encourage that freedom...it will help…

— Aldous Huxley

The practice of gratitude is incompatible with negative emotions and may actually diminish or deter such feelings as anger, bitterness, and greed.

— Sonja Lyubomirsky

Our resources will diminish in the coming decades at a time when hunger for energy grows dramatically in China and other parts of Asia.…

— Hermann E. Ott

Major international interventions are doomed unless the US is directly or indirectly involved. But if American politicians, officials and servicemen are to be put…

— Margaret Thatcher

A poet who makes use of a worse word instead of a better, because the former fits the rhyme or the measure, though it…

— Horace Walpole

Maybe that will happen with other countries as well. And so, that's why one of the things that groups like mine that work for…

— John Burroughs

Commerce diminishes the spirit, both of patriotism and military defence.

— Thomas Paine

“instead of accepting love's strength, we are trying to diminish it so that it fits the world in which we imagine we live.”

— Paulo Coelho

I think you can train yourself to block out some of that pressure and replace it with confidence. It's about preparation, and the more…

— Aaron Rodgers

Many people do not know that they can strengthen or diminish the life around them. The way we live day to day simply may…

— Rachel Naomi Remen