the car, by bisecting the human outline, diminishes it, producing a race of half-people in a motion not of their own making — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
This crowd did not diminish through the whole of that cold, wet day; they seemed not to know what was to by… — Gideon Welles Copy Share Image
No fact is so simple that it is not harder to believe than to doubt at the first presentation. Equally, there is… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
Racism does not diminish with brains, it's a disease, a sickness, it may incubate in ignorance but it doesn't necessarily disappear with… — Bryce Courtenay Copy Share Image
We must recognize that personal freedoms diminish as the welfare state grows. The price of more and more public programs is less… — Caspar Weinberger Copy Share Image
There is one form of hope which is never unwise, and which certainly does not diminish with the increase of knowledge. In… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
My dad was a great movie companion. He wouldn't diminish 'The Jerk.' If I liked it, he liked it. He could see… — Noah Baumbach 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
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
The power of the Web is obvious and undeniable. We diminish it at our peril. But what if the most potent social… — Daniel Henninger Copy Share Image
In this world, which is so plainly the antechamber of another, there are no happy men. The true division of humanity is… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“And she looked upon the mirror that was given as a gift. She hated everything about it, from the circular size of… — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
My freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
To the eyes of a god, mankind must appear as a species of bacteria which multiply and become progressively virulent whenever they… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
Conversation augments pleasure and diminishes pain by our having shares in either; for silent woes are greatest, as silent satisfaction leas; since… — William Wycherley Copy Share Image
Cosmic evolution may teach us how the good and evil tendencies of man may have come about; but, in itself, it is… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
The measure of charity may be taken from the want of desires. As desires diminish in the soul, charity increases in it;… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
It is the world's limitations and the myths that we internalize about ourselves that pushes us to diminish our power and ignore… — Janet Mock Copy Share Image
We read not only because we cannot know enough people, but because friendship is so vulnerable, so likely to diminish or disappear,… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
We cannot diminish the value of one category of human life -- the unborn -- without diminishing the value of all human… — Ronald Reagan 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
Exposure to the reproductions [of Corbis-owned fine art photographs] is likely to increase rather than diminish reverence for the real art and… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I don't value authority. I don't value the systems. I don't value patriarchal religion. I don't value the things that diminish you… — Susan Powter Copy Share Image
God's mercy is so great that you may sooner drain the sea of its water, or deprive the sun of its light,… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The best reason to diminish social programs is not to put more money in people's pockets but to put more responsibility in… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
Contrast increases the splendor of beauty, but it disturbs its influence; it adds to its attractiveness, but diminishes its power. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
My own view, for what it's worth, is that sexuality is lovely, there cannot be too much of it, it is self-limiting… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
It is not enough to have a light; it must be shared with others! For the darkness to diminish, we must eagerly… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
“Love, no matter how it’s expressed, is still love. We all have flaws, and so our love will be flawed. But that… — Erin McCarthy Copy Share Image
Freedom is indivisible - there is no "s" on the end of it. You can erode freedom, diminish it, but you cannot… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I pledge to never sign any trade agreement that hurts our workers or that diminishes our freedom and our independence. We will… — Donald Trump 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
Entertainment is the devils substitute for joy, and when you get satisfaction out of that dumb thing, your joy will diminish. — Leonard Ravenhill Copy Share Image
What judgment I had increases rather than diminishes; and thoughts, such as they are, come crowding in so fast upon me, that… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
A great painting or symphony or play, doesn't diminish us, but enlarges us, and we, too, want to make our own cry… — Madeleine L'Engle 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
Children will still die unjustly even in a perfect society. Even by his greatest effort, man can only propose to diminish, arithmetically,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Things becomes invisible at the very moment I refuse to grant them importance. And while I am utterly ashamed to admit it,… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
It [culture] invites people to diminish themselves, and dehumanize themselves by behaving like machines, meme processors of memes passed down from Madison… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image