Quotes about Diminished

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 but was unable to run for a lack of space, he refused to write for the magazine again. Votes: 3

The fascination for the Great Train Robbery has never diminished. Votes: 2

A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges. Votes: 2

'The bully pulpit' is somewhat diminished in our age of fragmented attention and fragmented media. Votes: 2

The Cold War is over. The kind of authority that the presidents asserted during the Cold War has now been diminished. Votes: 2

A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance. Votes: 2

I think, if you have enough inner resources, then you can live in isolation for long periods of time and not feel diminished by it. Votes: 2

Diversity has been written into the DNA of American life; any institution that lacks a rainbow array has come to seem diminished, if not diseased. Votes: 2

Major social movements eventually fade into the landscape not because they have diminished but because they have become a permanent part of our perceptions and experience. Votes: 2

Every two weeks, a language dies. The world is diminished when it loses its human sayings, just as when it loses its diversity of plants and beasts. Votes: 2

You cannot allow your desire to be a winner to be diminished by achieving success before and I believe there is room for improvement in every sportsman. Votes: 2

In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy. Votes: 2

Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards - the things we live by and teach our children - are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings. Votes: 2

And I find - I'm 63, and my capacity to be by myself and just spend time by myself hasn't diminished any. That's the necessary part of being a writer, you better like being alone. Votes: 2

For as long as the power of America's diversity is diminished by acts of discrimination and violence against people just because they are black, Hispanic, Asian, Jewish, Muslim or gay, we still must overcome. Votes: 2

The truth is that I oppose the Iraq war, just as I opposed the Vietnam War, because these two conflicts have weakened the U.S. and diminished our standing in the world and our national security. Votes: 2

I am actually in poor health due to chronic fatigue and immune dysfunction syndrome, and my ability to work is greatly diminished right now, so I have to get better before I can start another big project. Votes: 2

If the demand for home commodities should be diminished, because of the fall of rent on the part of the landlords, it will be increased in a far greater degree by the increased opulence of the commercial classes. Votes: 2

When younger writers and poets, musicians and painters are weakened by a stemming of funds, they come to me saddened, not as full of dreams and excitement and ideas. I am then weakened and diminished, and made less rich. Votes: 2

September 11th has produced only miniature heroes because our culture has freed itself from many of the old, dangerous, elitist fantasies of heroism... But in so doing, we have not only tamed and diminished heroes. We have risked taming and diminishing ourselves. Votes: 2

The Earth reminded us of a Christmas tree ornament hanging in the blackness of space. As we got farther and farther away it diminished in size. Finally it shrank to the size of a marble, the most beautiful marble you can imagine. Votes: 2

The beginnings and ends of shadow lie between the light and darkness and may be infinitely diminished and infinitely increased. Shadow is the means by which bodies display their form. The forms of bodies could not be understood in detail but for shadow. Votes: 2

The citizen is becoming a pawn in a game where nobody knows the rules, where everybody consequently doubts that there are rules at all, and where the vocabulary has been diminished to such an extent that nobody is even sure what the game is all about. Votes: 2

You write because you have an idea in your mind that feels so genuine, so important, so true. And yet, by the time this idea passes through the different filters of your mind, and into your hand, and onto the page or computer screen - it becomes distorted, and it's been diminished. Votes: 2

This is the greatest society in all of human history, the greatest country ever. Many of the decisions being made in Washington today by both parties are threatening that greatness. And if we stay on this road we're on right now, our children are going to be the first Americans ever to inherit a diminished country. Votes: 2

I could have easily been a statistic. Growing up in Brooklyn, N.Y., it was easy - a little too easy - to get into trouble. Surrounded by poor schools, lack of resources, high unemployment rates, poverty, gangs and more, I watched as many of my peers fell victim to a vicious cycle of diminished opportunities and imprisonment. Votes: 2

Every one must understand that, whatever be the evil of slavery, it is not increased by its diffusion. Every one familiar with it knows that it is in proportion to its sparseness that it becomes less objectionable. Wherever there is an immediate connexion between the master and slave, whatever there is of harshness in the system is diminished. Votes: 2

Possessions are usually diminished by possession. Votes: 0

Beauty is not diminished by being shared. Votes: 0

An honor is not diminished for being shared. Votes: 0

The cost of stability is often diminished opportunities for growth. Votes: 0

We are not diminished when someone else is added upon. Votes: 0

No person's gain in wisdom is diminished by anyone else's gain. Votes: 0

The fact is that racism, despite all the doomsayers, has diminished Votes: 0

But I don't think the popularity of flying has diminished a bit. Votes: 0

To the receptive soul the river of life pauseth not, nor is diminished. Votes: 0

The worship of youth has diminished - perhaps generally - in recent years. Votes: 0

It's the augmented fourth, or diminished fifth, depending on your outlook on life... Votes: 0

Movies are somewhat diminished by blockbusters, which are great, but there's not enough choice. Votes: 0

Most presidents come to Washington bright as freshly minted dimes and leave much diminished. Votes: 0

As his country crumbled around him, Fidel Castro's stature diminished abroad and at home. Votes: 0

If a man marries his housekeeper or his cook, the national dividend is diminished. Votes: 0

The influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished. Votes: 0

If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force. Votes: 0

The quality of our lives is diminished every time we lose a great artist. Votes: 0

His knowledge of books had in some degree diminished his knowledge of the world. Votes: 0

As I turn 91... I have to admit my hours at the easel have diminished. Votes: 0

Once you have had a wonderful dog, a life without one, is a life diminished. Votes: 0

Hip Hop has become real constrained. The creative juices and creative flows have been diminished. Votes: 0

Absolute nakedness was intrusive, confusing to the senses. Paradoxically, it both revealed and diminished identity. Votes: 0

Everything's immediately diminished. That's why there's no real rock stars anymore. People are too accessible. Votes: 0

The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened. Votes: 0

Wealth gained by dishonesty will be diminished, but he who gathers by labor will increase. Votes: 0

By the time they had diminished from 50 to 8, the other dwarves began to suspect 'Hungry'... Votes: 0

Cambodia was not a mistake; it was a crime. The world is diminished by the experience. Votes: 0

The beauty of empowering others is that your own power is not diminished in the process. Votes: 0

The opportunities of living are diminished in proportion as what are called the "means" are increased. Votes: 0

God loved us before he made us; and his love has never diminished and never shall. Votes: 0

The humanity of all Americans is diminished when any group is denied rights granted to others. Votes: 0

One reason why the progressive state is 'cheerful' is that social conflict is diminished by it. Votes: 0

As I turn 91 this June 8th, I have to admit my hours at the easel have diminished. Votes: 0

War is one of the constants of history, and it has not diminished with civilization or democracy. Votes: 0

The question that he frames in all but words is what to make of a diminished thing. Votes: 0

You are A MAN, not just a man; don't be diminished. Live up to your grand potential. Votes: 0

Athletics carries its own set of truths, and those truths are diminished when manipulated by people with agendas. Votes: 0

A great many worries can be diminished by realizing the unimportance of the matter which is causing anxiety. Votes: 0

Many will be busied in taking away from a thing, which will grow in proportion as it is diminished. Votes: 0

The quality of news coverage has diminished, because giants of the print media are no longer being nurtured properly. Votes: 0

If you avoid your truthful emotions and pain you will implode and contract into a diminished and feeble state. Votes: 0

The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others. Votes: 0

Man is diminished if he lives without knowledge of his past; without hope of a future he becomes a beast. Votes: 0

The forces of adversaries are more diminished by the loss of those who flee than of those who are killed. Votes: 0

When our commitment is diminished for any reason, part of the solution is repentance. Commitment and repentance are closely intertwined. Votes: 0

The risk that the economy has entered a substantial downturn appears to have diminished over the past month or so. Votes: 0

I don't feel like my speed or my power or my desire to play this game has diminished at all. Votes: 0

When you are clearly-defined, deliberate with intention and operating at your highest level, your brilliance cannot be hidden, diminished or overshadowed. Votes: 0

As to happiness in this life it is hardly compatible with that diminished respect which ever attends the relinquishing of labour. Votes: 0

Reputation is but a synonym of popularity: dependent on suffrage, to be increased or diminished at the will of the voters. Votes: 0

Either the distances betweem the distant quarters of the globe are diminished, or you have extended the powers of human action. Votes: 0

The sum of evil, Pascal remarked, would be much diminished if men could only learn to sit quietly in their rooms. Votes: 0

Respect for character is always diminished in proportion to the number among whom the blame or praise is to be divided. Votes: 0

The surfeit of bad trends pushes me to set my stories in worlds which are often diminished versions of our own present. Votes: 0

Cats, no less liquid than their shadows, offer no angles to the wind. They slip, diminished, neat, through loopholes less than themselves. Votes: 0

More than once Jesus deliberately addressed certain issues that quickly diminished the number of onlookers. It was commitment that thinned the ranks. Votes: 0

That's sort of the idea that if we, in attempting to explain away that which is experienced, the experience itself is diminished. Votes: 0

The role of Italy and of Austria has diminished as has that of France and Britain; Germany and Japan have suffered catastrophically. Votes: 0

Even if your body doesn't work the way it used to, the heart and the mind and the spirit are not diminished. Votes: 0

Conflicting commercial regulations of the different States shackled and diminished both foreign and domestic trade; hence the power to regulate commerce was conferred. Votes: 0

When people restrain themselves out of fear, their lives are by necessity diminished. They become rigid and defensive, and their self stops growing. Votes: 0

If a piece of worthless stone can bruise a cup of gold, its worth is not increased, nor that of the gold diminished. Votes: 0

Where you find the attraction for lust and wealth considerably diminished, to whatever creed he may belong, know that his inner spirit is awakening. Votes: 0

If my mind cannot be tied down, if my dreams cannot be diminished, then no amount of restraints can really guarantee my quiet submission. Votes: 0

The quantity of force which can be brought into action in the whole of Nature is unchangeable, and can neither be increased nor diminished. Votes: 0

We [people] spend so much time feeling so small and less than and insignificant and diminished because we see ourselves through our own lens. Votes: 0

I have been vain since birth. I expected other people to like what I did, although my vanity has definitely diminished over the years. Votes: 0

One of the chief obstacles to intelligence is credulity, and credulity could be enormously diminished by instructions as to the prevalent forms of mendacity. Votes: 0

The risk of an all-out nuclear holocaust destroying all life on the planet has diminished, but the danger of actual nuclear weapons use has increased. Votes: 0

extreme visual clarity, tunnel vision, diminished sound, and the sense that time is slowing down. this is how the human body reacts to extreme stress. Votes: 0

If every human rights atrocity is described as a Holocaust,[Adolf] Hitler's attempted obliteration of the Jewish people is diminished or de-recognised in our history. Votes: 0

For if a thing is not diminished by being shared with others, it is not rightly owned if it is only owned and not shared. Votes: 0

There is a light within each of us that can never be diminished or extinguished. It can only be obscured by forgetting who we are Votes: 0

Art and culture are nonetheless vital, essential even, to what it means to be human, yet digital abundance has diminished our sense of their worth. Votes: 0

A diminished self-image will cause you to slouch, to avoid meeting others, to avoid looking others in the eye, to be unassertive, and to be indecisive. Votes: 0

Let me put it very plainly: If we Republicans choose Donald Trump as our nominee, the prospects for a safe and prosperous future are greatly diminished. Votes: 0

Steve Jobs was not only the heart and soul of Apple, he was the wind underneath the technology market. Both are significantly diminished by his passing. Votes: 0

It is a charming quality of the happiness we inspire in others that, far from being diminished like a reflection, it comes back to us enhanced. Votes: 0

We may never know why Joe Ellis fabricated a heroic past. But we know that the life he embellished has deeply diminished the life he'd earned. Votes: 0

In my view, since the case can be made that knowledge too is a natural kind, the role of pretheoretical intuitions is similarly diminished in epistemology. Votes: 0

The only thing that I have done that is not mitigated by luck, diminished by good fortune, is that I persisted, and other people gave up. Votes: 0

Friendship is not diminished by distance or time, by imprisonment or war, by suffering or silence. It is in these things that it roots most deeply. Votes: 0

Women's roles are diminished for obvious reasons. It's the men whose names are on the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, and who were generals and soldiers. Votes: 0

By failing seriously to confront the most predicable economic crisis in our nation's history, the President's policies are committing us and our children to a diminished future. Votes: 0

Accordingly, when the supply of gold runs short, the security behind the notes is diminished, the loaning of notes is restricted or suspended, and the panic follows. Votes: 0

To Armstrong, constantly speaking about 'Apollo 11' only diminished the magic. That's why he worked overtime to avoid notice, living a quiet life in Indian Hill, Ohio. Votes: 0

The delight we inspire in others has this enchanting peculiarity that, far from being diminished like every other reflection, it returns to us more radiant than ever. Votes: 0

The life in Italy is the life of a wealthy country: consumptions haven't diminished, it's hard to find seats on planes, our restaurants are full of people. Votes: 0

Freedom is the awareness of alternatives and of the ability to choose. It is contingent upon consciousness, and so may be gained or lost, extended or diminished. Votes: 0

One consequence of this is that people are expected to make it on their own by chasing clicks or building a brand. What a diminished vision that is. Votes: 0

We're getting so pulled in by computers and technology, and our kids have their face in the computers all day. The human relationship is being diminished by this. Votes: 0

Some relaxation is necessary to people of every degree; the head that thinks and the hand that labors, must have some little time to recruit their diminished powers. Votes: 0

We must remember that we have to make judges out of men, and that by being made judges their prejudices are not diminished and their intelligence is not increased. Votes: 0

A happiness that is sought for ourselves alone can never be found: for a happiness that is diminished by being shared is not big enough to make us happy. Votes: 0

Democrat women lead the way in showing other women how to be stepped on and diminished by men. That's what they do, for a payoff somewhere down the line. Votes: 0

The problem with most intimate relationships is that they are not romantic. They do not involve a deeper knowing, and thus there is diminished possibility of sacred, transformative sharing. Votes: 0

Sisters, we as women are not diminished by priesthood power - we are magnified by it. I know this is true, for I have experienced it again and again. Votes: 0

When you're trying to pass on the best of the stuff you're culling to what should be a hungry culture but you have it diminished... that's kind of disappointing. Votes: 0

My appetite for public policy and changing it, and not only being a part of the conversation, but affecting it in a positive way, never diminished after 10 years in Congress. Votes: 0

A sport has its own built-in integrity, doesn't need an artificial one. Athletics carries its own set of truths, and those truths are diminished and manipulated by people with agendas. Votes: 0

The active investors will have their returns diminished by a far greater percentage than will their inactive brethren. That means that the passive group - the "know-nothings" - must win. Votes: 0

Blind obedience is a sure sign of trouble. The likelihood of religion becoming evil is greatly diminished when there is freedom for individual thinking and when honest inquiry is encouraged. Votes: 0

In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy. Votes: 0

The law in question asserts, that the quantity of force which can be brought into action in the whole of Nature is unchangeable, and can neither be increased nor diminished. Votes: 0

The less the mind understands and the more things it perceives, the greater its power of feigning is; and the more things it understands, the more that power is diminished. Votes: 0

Unlike then, the mail stream of today has diminished by such things as e-mails and faxes and cell phones and text messages, largely electronic means of communication that replace mail. Votes: 0

Bad reviews I've gotten never diminished the number of people in my audience; good reviews have never added to the number of people in my audience; be your own critic. Votes: 0

If a man could mount to Heaven and survey the mighty universe, his admiration of its beauties would be much diminished unless he had someone to share in his pleasure. Votes: 0

Total victory is the only acceptable goal in a mind-control war because humanity is diminished so long as a single mind remains trapped in superstition [supernatural religion] by programming or choice. Votes: 0

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 completely replaced by arbitrary government power? Votes: 0

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 the face of one's diminished influence. Votes: 0

Worry is a form of fear, and all forms of fear produce fatigue. A man who has learned not to feel fear will find the fatigue of daily life enormously diminished. Votes: 0

As a recluse I couldn't bear traffic. It had nothing to do with jealousy, I simply disliked people, crowds, anywhere, except at my readings. People diminished me, they sucked me dry. Votes: 0

Or heritage and ideals, our code and standards - the things we live by and teach our children - are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings. Votes: 0

The global environment crisis is, as we say in Tennessee, real as rain, and I cannot stand the thought of leaving my children with a degraded earth and a diminished future. Votes: 0

We tend to be preoccupied by our problems when we have a heightened sense of vulnerability and a diminished sense of power. Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer. Votes: 0

We tend to be preoccupied by our problems when we have a heightened sense of vulnerability and a diminished sense of power. Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer. Votes: 0

Until cubism, all art, all pictures, could be 'read' by anybody. If this hadn't been so, the Christian message wouldn't have been seen by peasants and its importance would have been diminished. Votes: 0

I have always thought that a wild animal never looks so well as when some obstacle of pronounced durability is between us. A personal experience has intensified rather than diminished that idea. Votes: 0

Hall & Oates is one of the few musical groups as satisfying now as it was back then. There's something incredibly musically satisfying about their songs. Nothing has diminished my love for them. Votes: 0

Once the public loses confidence in a president's leadership at a time of war, once they don't trust him anymore, once his credibility is sharply diminished, how does he get it back? Votes: 0

Newton found that a star, examined through a glass tarnished by smoke, was diminished into a speck of light. But no smoke ever breathed so thick a mist as envy or detraction. Votes: 0

During the first suffragist wave in this nation, women were possessions, like a table or a chair. So violence toward them was quite condoned. The attitude has diminished, but it's still there. Votes: 0

If we had only those things which are procured with ease and freedom from danger, we should find the comforts and luxuries, if not many of the necessaries of life, considerably diminished. Votes: 0

With a healthy environment all our lives are enriched - without it our lives are diminished. The environment is and will always be number one - One Life, One World, Our Future. Votes: 0

Drug smugglers from all over the world are in contact with the US secret agencies. These agencies do not want to eradicate narcotics cultivation and trafficking because their importance will be diminished. Votes: 0

Is it not gain to have diminished the faith that it was the duty of the wretched and the miserable to be content with the lot in life which providence had awarded them? Votes: 0

Then he leaned down, breath warm on my neck as he whispered his next words. "You've wondered if I felt differently about you since your abilities diminished. Let this serve as your answer. Votes: 0

The cries of the wounded had much diminished now, and as we staggered down the road, the reason was only too apparent, for the water was right over the tops of the shell-holes. Votes: 0

Thus it is that "Some things are increased by being diminished, others are diminished by being increased." What others have taught, I also teach; verily, I will make it the root of my teaching. Votes: 0

Even the most beautiful scenery is no longer assured of our love after we have lived in it for three months, and some distant coast attracts our avarice: possessions are generally diminished by possession. Votes: 0

With every step of the recent traveler our inheritance of the wonderful is diminished. Those beautiful pictured notes of the possible are redeemed at a ruinous discount in the hard coin of the actual. Votes: 0

Agricultural demand for water - probably the largest threat to freshwater species - continues to increase. ... Meanwhile, threats to terrestrial biodiversity - primarily the conversion of habitat to agricultural uses ... - have not diminished. Votes: 0

The personality problem is so tough when you're not able to pay people. It's bad enough when you can pay people, but, when you have people working for free, often their motivation is diminished considerably. Votes: 0