Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison. — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
You snipe so steady, you snub so snide, so rip and ready to diminish and deride. — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
Riches amassed in haste will diminish; but those collected by hand and little by little will multiply. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
That which serves our spirits enhances our bodies. That which diminishes our spirits diminishes our bodies. — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
It is the natural effect of improvement, however, to diminish gradually the real price of almost all manufactures. — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Marriage equality does not diminish the worth of your relationships; it simply recognises the worth of ours. — Penny Wong Copy Share Image
We must never forget or diminish the sacrifices of those who gave everything for this nation. — Jim Walsh Copy Share Image
Custom, which diminishes the intense, increases the moderate, pleasures. — Andrew Michael Ramsay Copy Share Image
The overall effect of the GEA will be to increase unit production costs, diminish competitiveness, cut the rate of return to capital… — Ross McKitrick Copy Share Image
Many [of the Americans] polled showed a marked disapproval of the Wallonians, Danerians, and Pirenians. The fact that these minorities were invented… — Leo Rosten Copy Share Image
Putting our expectations on others is a habit that keeps us feeling frustrated. It diminishes the amount of love we feel. — Jude Bijou Copy Share Image
I like people with big talents and small neuroses - not always an easy combination to find. I've discovered that if the… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
If you feed an appetite, it grows. Satisfying an appetite does not diminish it. It expands it. To diminish an appetite, you… — Andy Stanley Copy Share Image
I do not feel any less of a woman. I feel empowered that I made a strong choice that in no way… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
Most of those who died did not die of hunger but of hatred. Feeling hatred diminishes you. It eats at your from… — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
There are many people who don't do well on a vegetarian or vegan diet, that for them, meat is a very nutritious… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
For the Christian there can be no social or political panaceas, no easy escapes from personal responsibility achieved by collectivising guilt or… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
One of the most effective ways to overcome anxiety is to try to shift the focus of attention away from self and… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
When you're wearing jeans there's a shift in your center of gravity. A costume like this and a character like this, there's… — Ray Stevenson Copy Share Image
I truly believe slavery is why, as a by-product, we still have a disproportionate amount of black men incarcerated in the USA.… — David Oyelowo Copy Share Image
Nothing is better than music; when it takes us out of time, it has done more for us than we have the… — Nadia Boulanger Copy Share Image
In some of our subcultures, paper bags are often used to carry intimate personal belongings. And the sight of some of our… — David L. Bazelon Copy Share Image
Triumphs against the natural order of living exact unforeseen payments. At the same time that man attempts to straighten a crooked nature,… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
As presidential authority expands, and the role of Congress diminishes, the American people continue to lose control over their government. Today's assertions… — Mickey Edwards Copy Share Image
Get rid of the guns. We had the Second Amendment that said you have the right to bear arms. I haven't seen… — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
If we change in different directions, then we don't have any future anyway, do we? I think it's possible for two people… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
It's easy to pretend 'to be fierce and fearless because living your truth takes real courage. Real fearless and fierce women admit… — Gabrielle Union Copy Share Image
My mother really was an extraordinary, inspirational, tough, cool, sexy, funny woman and that's the kind of woman I've always surrounded myself… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
Philosophy is to be studied, not for the sake of any definite answers to its questions, since no definite answers can, as… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It may be said of some very old places, as of some very old books, that they are destined to be forever… — Amelia B. Edwards Copy Share Image
Why is Netanyahu pushing war? Among several reasons, demonizing Iran reduces pressure on Israel to negotiate seriously with the Palestinians. Many Israelis… — Sheldon Richman Copy Share Image
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