Diminishes Quotes
140 quotes by 124 authors
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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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By nature, I think I am a pretty private person, and that is what is hard even doing interviews for films that I really love…
— Steve Buscemi
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In every animal which has not passed the limit of its development, a more frequent and continuous use of any organ gradually strengthens, develops and…
— Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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Silence kills the soul; it diminishes its possibilities to rise and fly and explore. Silence withers what makes you human. The soul shrinks, until it's…
— Marlon Riggs
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Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it.
— Arthur Ashe
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The fundamental trouble with marriage is that it shakes a man's confidence in himself, and so greatly diminishes his general competence and effectiveness. His habit…
— H. L. Mencken
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The more we see the unconscionable ends to which the human spirit can descend when it is determined to remain autonomous, the more our confidence…
— Ravi Zacharias
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It may be said of some very old places, as of some very old books, that they are destined to be forever new. The nearer…
— Amelia B. Edwards
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I do not feel any less of a woman. I feel empowered that I made a strong choice that in no way diminishes my femininity.
— Angelina Jolie
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A passed pawn increase in strength as the number of pieces on the board diminishes.
— Jose Raul Capablanca
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A tax is always a sacrifice which the government demands of individuals.While it only lessens every one's personal eÇŒoyments, it only shifts expenses from one…
— Antoine Destutt de Tracy
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Solve global warming, eliminate the nuclear threat, and we will still have to confront the vastness of our species and the way it diminishes, without…
— Verlyn Klinkenborg
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The best reason to be assigned, in this case, for not having made the Constitution more free from a charge of uncertainty in its meaning,…
— James Madison
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I've always felt that if you back down from a fear, the ghost of that fear never goes away. It diminishes people. So I've always…
— Hugh Jackman
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I felt that one of the major issues in the third film is that Luke is finally on his own and has to fight Vader…
— George Lucas
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It's easy to pretend 'to be fierce and fearless because living your truth takes real courage. Real fearless and fierce women admit mistakes and they…
— Gabrielle Union
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To the eyes of a god, mankind must appear as a species of bacteria which multiply and become progressively virulent whenever they find themselves in…
— Aleister Crowley
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Short term volatility is greatest at turning points and diminishes as a trend becomes established
— George Soros
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The faculty of using my resources well diminishes when their number grows.
— Robert Bresson
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The prudent see only the difficulties, the bold only the advantages, of a great enterprise; the hero sees both; diminishes the former and makes the…
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
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