What to make of a diminished thing?

The question that he frames in all but words is what to make of a diminished thing.

— Robert Frost

“War diminished you. It chipped chunks from your soul, took the man and molded him into a darker shadow of his real self. But”

— David Leadbeater

“So it is that some things are increased by being diminished, and others are diminished by being increased.”

— Lao Tzu

It's quite rare for a group of people to come together for a live event that isn't loud music. A live event that enables…

— Tim Crouch

We are not diminished when someone else is added upon.

— Jeffrey R. Holland

I have written about cultural dislocation, and I understand the corrosive effect of diminished expectations.

— Richard Cohen

It's the augmented fourth, or diminished fifth, depending on your outlook on life.

— Bill Bailey

Once the public loses confidence in a president's leadership at a time of war, once they don't trust him anymore, once his credibility is…

— Robert Dallek

The Cold War is over. The kind of authority that the presidents asserted during the Cold War has now been diminished.

— Robert Dallek

“I cannot live without you. For to attempt to do so would be to rob both of us of each other, and that is…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

An honor is not diminished for being shared.

— Lois McMaster Bujold

I'm going to say this as an ethereal effect, not something that people are necessarily aware of while it's happening, but my theory is…

— Tom Scholz

Every two weeks, a language dies. The world is diminished when it loses its human sayings, just as when it loses its diversity of…

— Eduardo Galeano

In city after city, newspaper after newspaper has diminished its staff of critics, sometimes to zero. Film and T.V. critics have been dropped and…

— Tom Shales

“When we believe a wounding story, our whole world is diminished.”

— Sharon Salzberg