Reduced Quotes

533 Reduced quotes by 462 unique authors

I feel with some passion that what we truly are is private, and almost infinitely complex, and ambiguous, and both external and internal, and double-… — Philip Pullman
Huging my pillow to my chest, I told myself, At least soon you won't have so much time to miss him. Soon school will start… — Claudia Gray
Imagine the earthâ€™s population of six billion people reduced to just one hundred representatives. Statistically, that makes 30 white, 70 non-white. It means 6 people… — Grant Morrison
...Cities may be rebuilt, and a People reduced to Poverty, may acquire fresh Property: But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never… — John Adams
We suddenly feel fearful and apprehensive, naked in our perishable flesh, and for just a moment we wish we could go back to being stoneâ€”crumbling… — Ekaterina Sedia
Martin, at my age, eroticism is reduced to enjoying caramel custard and looking at widows' necks.' - Senor Sempere. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. — Maya Angelou
Books, like people, can't be reduced to the cost of the materials with which they were made. Books, like people, become unique and precious once… — Yann Martel
Suppose within each book there is another book, and within every letter on every page another volume constantly unfolding; but these volumes take no space… — Hilary Mantel
The green thumb is equable in the face of nature's uncertainties; he moves among her mysteries without feeling the need for control or explanations or… — Michael Pollan
She didn't like the fact that she had reduced a man â€“ no matter how evil he might beâ€”to a drooling idiot. — John Flanagan
I sleep all day. Noises flit around the house- garbage truck in the alley, rain, tree rapping against the bedroom window. I sleep. I inhabit… — Audrey Niffenegger
Whereupon a strange euphoria came over me. Not only was I exiled, paralyzed, mute, half deaf, deprived of all pleasures, and reduced to the existence… — Jean-Dominique Bauby
Not all activities are equal in this regard. Those that involve genuine concentrationâ€”studying a musical instrument, playing board games, reading, and dancingâ€”are associated with a… — Norman Doidge
If it canâ€™t be reduced, reused, repaired, rebuilt, refurbished, refinished, resold, recycled or composted, then it should be restricted, redesigned or removed from production. — Pete Seeger
Rowww!â€ Bast wailed. The wrecking ball rolled straight over her, but she didnâ€™t appear hurt. She leaped off and pounced aain. Her knives sliced through… — Rick Riordan
I do forget sometimes how much it means for certain menâ€”for certain peopleâ€”to be able to provide their loved ones with material comforts and protection… — Elizabeth Gilbert
He would not mind hearing Petrus's story one day. But preferably not reduced to English. More and more he is convinced that English is an… — J M Coetzee
a man who has decided upon self-destruction is far removed from mundane affairs, and to sit down and write his will would be, at that… — Vladimir Nabokov
I am afraid of reduction. After a lifetime's independence- yes, selfish independence- I am terrified of being reduced to childhood once more, to helplessness, to… — Rosie Thomas

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