Begging for acknowledgment, or even asking, diminishes dignity and diminishes power. — Will Smith Copy Share Image
Passions are less mischievous than boredom, for passions tend to diminish and boredom increase. — Jules Amedee Barbey d'Aurevilly Copy Share Image
every death diminishes us, but those that leave differences unresolved and things unsaid are the most painful of all. — Marcia Muller Copy Share Image
My heartfelt wish for you: as you get older, your self will diminish and you will grow in love. — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Short term volatility is greatest at turning points and diminishes as a trend becomes established — George Soros Copy Share Image
What is precious inside us does not care to be known by the mind in ways that diminish its presence. — David Whyte Copy Share Image
The young have to kill the old. The young, if they want to achieve their own platform, have to diminish the reputations… — Moby 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
There is in my work a very strong religious foreground and background. In the later work some of that tends to diminish,… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression. Patriotism becomes the order of the day, and those who question… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“You think it begins to diminish with time, the pain, then it comes back and hits you with a rawness and freshness… — William Boyd 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
Better to be an animal than a man, an insect than an animal, a plant than an insect, and so on. Salvation?… — Anonymous 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
E=mc2. Energy equals mass times the speed of light squared. The original statement is: If a body gives off the energy L… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence - neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The most formidable attribute of temptation is its increasing power, its accelerating ratio of velocity. Every act of repetition increases power, diminishes… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Population regulates itself by the funds which are to employ it, and therefore always increases or diminishes with the increase or the… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
Imagine how differently American business would function were our faith in the power of goodness to replace our faith in the power… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
The reward of renunciation is some good greater than the thing renounced. To renounce with no vision of such a good, from… — Hugh Kingsmill Copy Share Image
Organs, faculties, powers, capacities, or whatever else we call them; grow by use and diminish from disuse, it is inferred that they… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
I see people allowing their lives to diminish, to become shallow, so they can't enjoy the deep wells of experience. Maybe it's… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
“Live so fully and so brilliantly that your pain diminishes in your aliveness.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
Humble living does not diminish. It fills. Going back to a simpler self gives wisdom. — Rumi 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
As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends correspondingly to increase. And the dictator will do well to encourage that freedom...it… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
To conceal ignorance is to increase it. An honest confession of it, however, gives ground for the hope that it will diminish… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
We must avoid however, snapping away, shooting quickly and without thought, overloading ourselves with unnecessary images that clutter our memory and diminish… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We don't use the term 'working class' here because it's a taboo term. You're supposed to say 'middle class,' because it helps… — Noam Chomsky 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
No matter how far society “progresses,” our thirst for community and connection will never diminish. Bars satisfy this need. — Jon Taffer Copy Share Image
It seems that truth is progressive approximation in which the relative fraction of our spontaneously tolerated residual error constantly diminishes. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Money can extinguish intrinsic motivation, diminish performance, crush creativity, encourage unethical behavior, foster short-term thinking, and become addictive. — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
As worldly thoughts diminish, thoughts of God increase. Normally, the mind is all the time desiring these worldly things. As the desires… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
We should never let ambition cause us to sacrifice our integrity or diminish our efforts in other areas. However, we need to… — John Wooden Copy Share Image
