Blot out, correct, insert, refine, enlarge, diminish, interline. Be mindful, when invention fails. To scratch your head and bite your nails. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
I don't think a lot of women know how much their chances of having a child diminish as they age. — Alexis Stewart Copy Share Image
I think in many ways, the texture of technology actually diminishes human beings. It doesn't augment them. — Tod Machover Copy Share Image
Organizations that can diminish fear are those that are able to motivate, create, and innovate. — Chip Conley Copy Share Image
Don't let a loud few determine the nature of the sound. It makes for poor harmony and diminishes the song. — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
At their core, misogyny and racism are very similar modes of thinking. Both diminish and disrespect a class of people based on… — Dessa Darling Copy Share Image
There are three aspects to perspective. The first has to do with how the size of objects seems to diminish according to… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Of course, when one is faced with a canvas, one is no longer alone, and the sense of solitude diminishes. This can… — Pierre Alechinsky Copy Share Image
Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet… — Ted Olson Copy Share Image
When profit diminishes, merchants are very apt to complain that trade decays; though the diminution of profit is the natural effect of… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Our view of history diminishes the reality of the past. We concentrate on the historic event as something that has happened, and… — Ian Mortimer Copy Share Image
An educational method that shall have liberty as its basis must intervene to help the child to a conquest of liberty. That… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
With what's happened in the world the last three years, it's easier to see why it's become popular again to diminish and… — Tony Shalhoub Copy Share Image
Yet in truth the big question Camus asked was never the Anglo-American liberal one: How can we make the world a little… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
Is it really in our countrys best interest to signal to the enemy that they probably only have to wait us out… — Fred Thompson Copy Share Image
To one degree or another, everybody is connected to the Mystery, and everybody secretly yearns to expand the connection. That requires expanding… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The Church of Christ, zealous and cautious guardian of the dogmas deposited with it, never changes any phase of them. It does… — St. Vincent Copy Share Image
If you establish a democracy, you must in due time reap the fruits of a democracy. You will in due season have… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Though energy and inspiration diminish, experience grows - the theme of parents and kids, for instance. — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
A holy war is a contradiction in terms. War dehumanizes, war diminishes, war debases all those who wage it. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
We need to renegotiate our contract with nature. Ecology is a unifying force that can diminish intolerance and expand our empathy towards… — Gregory Colbert Copy Share Image
The only reason I would write a sequel is if I were struck by an idea that I felt to be equal… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Forfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the universe becomes a market place for you. — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
Every view of the world that becomes extinct, every culture that disappears, diminishes a possibility of life — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
When you paint, you forget everything except your object. When you are too much engrossed in it, you are lost in it.… — Meher Baba Copy Share Image
The beauty of some women has days and seasons, depending upon accidents which diminish or increase it; nay, the very passions of… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
Nobody's irreplaceable, including me. I think for too long we've had a cult of personality in this company and in this industry,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Companies are experimenting with replacing sodium chloride with potassium chloride, because most of the health problems come from sodium. It works for… — Michael Moss Copy Share Image
We all experience doubts and fears as we approach new challenges. The fear diminishes with the confidence that comes from experience and… — Brian Goodell Copy Share Image
One of the effects of civilization is to diminish the rigour of the application of the law of natural selection. It preserves… — Francis Galton Copy Share Image
Our feelings of separation from God will diminish as we become more childlike before Him. That is not easy in a world… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
The hastily crafted [stimulus] bill, with its corrupt funding of ACORN and other favors, is a disgracefully irresponsible effort to expand the… — David Limbaugh Copy Share Image
It's not what you know, and it's not even who you know. It's how much knowledge you give away. Hoarding knowledge diminishes… — David Weinberger Copy Share Image
I would say that for the sake of human progress, the best thing we could possibly do would be to diminish, to… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Wouldst thou multiply thy riches? diminish them wisely; or wouldst thou make thy estate entire? divide it charitably. Seeds that are scattered… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image