Diminish Quotes · Page 16

Buy a $100 U.S. bond and frame it to teach your children about inflation by watching the U.S. bond value diminish to…

— Marc Faber

Philosophy is to be studied, not for the sake of any definite answers to its questions, since no definite answers can, as…

— Bertrand Russell

Remain true to yourself and your philosophy. Changing in the face of adversity will in fact diminish your credibility with your customers.

— Giorgio Armani

I do take the threat of terrorism seriously. You cannot eliminate that threat or diminish that threat by bombing a country.

— Howard Zinn

Romantic love is blind to everything except what is lovable and lovely, but Christ's love sees us with terrible clarity and sees…

— Frederick Buechner

[Slave] trade ... is the most shocking violation of the law of nature, has a direct tendency to diminish ... liberty, and…

— James Otis

My ambition has always been to reduce a building's support to a minimum. The more we diminish supporting structures, the more audacious…

— Oscar Niemeyer

Envying another's beauty will diminish your own. But when you praise beauty in others your own beauty deepens.

— Daisaku Ikeda

I respect Rush Limbaugh; he is a national conservative leader, and in no way do I want to diminish his voice.

— Michael Steele

Scientists tend to resist interdisciplinary inquiries into their own territory. In many instances, such parochialism is founded on the fear that intrusion…

— Hannes Alfven

I do not feel any less of a woman. I feel empowered that I made a strong choice that in no way…

— Angelina Jolie

I like people with big talents and small neuroses - not always an easy combination to find. I've discovered that if the…

— Mel Brooks

Sobriety diminishes, discriminates, and says no; drunkenness expands, unites, and says yes. Not through mere perversity do men run after it.

— William James

As a civilised society, we have a duty to support those among us who are vulnerable and in need. When times are…

— Justin Welby

A holy war is a contradiction in terms. War dehumanizes, war diminishes, war debases all those who wage it.

— Elie Wiesel

My intent was not to go after Rush - I have enormous respect for Rush Limbaugh. I was maybe a little bit…

— Michael Steele

... when horizons grow or diminish within a person the distances are not measurable by other people.

— Virginia Axline

When you use words loosely, without care and consideration, you erode trust in yourself and in what you're saying. When you squander…

— Margaret Heffernan

Never forget that the purpose for which a man lives is the improvement of the man himself, so that he may go…

— William E. Gladstone

“Live so fully and so brilliantly that your pain diminishes in your aliveness.”

— Bryant McGill

Better to be an animal than a man, an insect than an animal, a plant than an insect, and so on. Salvation?…

— Anonymous

Diminish us across the board. They [Russians] do not wish us well.

— Daniel Fried

We need to renegotiate our contract with nature. Ecology is a unifying force that can diminish intolerance and expand our empathy towards…

— Gregory Colbert

Government, like any other organism, refuses to acquiesce in its own extinction. This refusal, of course, involves the resistance to any effort…

— H. L. Mencken

When profit diminishes, merchants are very apt to complain that trade decays; though the diminution of profit is the natural effect of…

— Adam Smith