Passions are less mischievous than boredom, for passions tend to diminish and boredom increase. — Jules Amedee Barbey d'Aurevilly Copy Share Image
Humor simultaneously wounds and heals, indicts and pardons, diminishes and enlarges; it constitutes inner growth at the expense of outer gain, and… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
I was surprised to find myself so much fuller of Faults than I had imagined, but I had the Satisfaction of seeing… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Romania and Bulgaria were particularly irresponsible. If they wanted to diminish their chances of joining Europe they could not have found a… — Jacques Chirac Copy Share Image
A crowd, proportionately to its size, magnifies all that in its units pertains to the emotions, and diminishes all that in them… — Max Beerbohm Copy Share Image
The programme of the British Labour Party under Neil Kinnock is so wildly irresponsible, so separate and apart from the historic NATO… — Richard Perle Copy Share Image
A lot of people are just really confused by me; they don’t know what to think of me, so they try to… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
The faculty of using my resources well diminishes when their number grows. — Robert Bresson Copy Share Image
The hand of a bride becomes the hand of a mother. Ever so gently she cares for her precious child. Bathing, dressing,… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it yourself. In giving it, you will accumulate a… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
People's ideas and fears can make them small but they cannot make you small. People's prejudices can diminish them but they cannot… — Carly Fiorina Copy Share Image
Complexity has and will maintain a strong fascination for many people. It is true that we live in a complex world and… — Niklaus Wirth Copy Share Image
If you wish to grow thinner, diminish your dinner, And take to light claret instead of pale ale; Look down with an… — Henry Sambrooke Leigh Copy Share Image
I worry that as the problem-solving power of our technologies increases, our ability to distinguish between important and trivial or even non-existent… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
The habit of dwelling on the past, has a narrowing as well as a debilitating influence. Behind us, there is a small,… — Harriet Martineau 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
“It wasn’t until I slowed the car and rolled down the windows that I realized I spend most of my days driving… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Look closely at nature. Every species is a masterpiece, exquisitely adapted to the particular environment in which it has survived. Who are… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Growth that adds volume without improving productivity is fat. Growth that diminishes productivity is cancer. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
That is what diminishes the artist and his song. The artist is now hermetically sealed. The publishing company got him his deal… — Michael Kosser Copy Share Image
To diminish envy, let us consider not what others possess, but what they enjoy; mere riches may be the gift of lucky… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Remember: courage, unused, diminishes. Commitment, unexercised, wanes. Love, unshared, dissipates. — Tony Robbins 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
