Diminished Quotes

239 quotes by 213 authors

Diminished circumstances had no effect on his sense of what was honorable: after The Spectator sent him a check for a piece it had accepted… — Louis Menand
One of the unique things about the human brain is that it can do only what it thinks it can do. The minute you say… — Deepak Chopra
There is a place where time stands still ...illuminated by only the most feeble red light, for light is diminished to almost nothing at the… — Alan Lightman
Obscurantism is the academic theorist's revenge on society for having consigned him or her to relative obscurity - a way of proclaiming one's superiority in… — David Lehman
The cost of stability is often diminished opportunities for growth. — Sheryl Sandberg
Horror fiction seems to spawn more dumbass 'rules' than any other kind of writing, and one of the dumbest is the assumed 'requirement' of a… — David J
Becoming a vegan gave me another opportunity to live a healthy life. I was so congested from all the drugs and bad cocaine, I could… — Mike Tyson
I should care about the education a child in Philadelphia, or Pittsburgh, or Erie, or Scranton received because if they didn't get a good education… — Tom Wolf
Most presidents come to Washington bright as freshly minted dimes and leave much diminished. — George Will
If a piece of worthless stone can bruise a cup of gold, its worth is not increased, nor that of the gold diminished. — Saadi
In their work, then, as in their play, men and women are more and more coming to share with each other as comrades, and really… — Richard Le Gallienne
By diminishing the value of silence, publicity has also diminished that of language. The two are inseparable: knowing how to speak has always meant knowing… — Octavio Paz
The trouble with ghostwriting is that it raises the issue of whether the president is in a state of diminished responsibility for what he says.… — Jonathan Raban
The human venture depends absolutely on this quality of awe and reverence and joy in the Earth and all that lives and grows upon the… — Thomas Berry
Since the traditional recorded-music business models have drastically changed, there is truly diminished income derived from recorded music by artists - both current and catalog.… — Irving Azoff
Being an outsider means not being heard, not having a voice. It means being treated as a second-class citizen, being diminished in the eyes of… — Chris Crutcher
Five years of Prohibition have had, at least, this one benign effect: they have completely disposed of all the favorite arguments of the Prohibitionists. None… — H. L. Mencken
Terrorists can endanger some of us, but the war on terror endangers us all. How much more can the Constitution be diminished before it is… — Paul Craig Roberts
No principle, that is possible to be named, can be more self-evidently false than this; or more self-evidently fatal to all political freedom. Yet it… — Lysander Spooner
The fears are unanimous. ObamaCare is too expensive. It is a government takeover of our healthcare system. Services will be diminished. The patient-doctor relationship will… — Joe Kyrillos

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