Top 100 Diminished Quotes
#1. His knowledge of books had in some degree diminished his knowledge of the world.
William Shenstone
#2. The fascination for the Great Train Robbery has never diminished.
Luke Evans
#3. More than once Jesus deliberately addressed certain issues that quickly diminished the number of onlookers. It was commitment that thinned the ranks.
Charles R. Swindoll
#4. When pride retreats from a man, humility begins to dwell in him, and the more pride is diminished, so much more does humility grow. The one gives way to the other as to its opposite. Darkness departs and light appears. Pride is darkness, but humility is light.
Tikhon Of Zadonsk
#5. Mr. Speaker, in the years since we enacted our attack against Iraq, the threat from Iran has only grown more difficult, and our capacity to meet that threat actually has diminished. It is one of the reasons many of us opposed that action against Iraq.
Earl Blumenauer
#6. Athletics carries its own set of truths, and those truths are diminished when manipulated by people with agendas.
Chris Crutcher
#7. If a man marries his housekeeper or his cook, the national dividend is diminished.
Arthur Cecil Pigou
#8. Movies are somewhat diminished by blockbusters, which are great, but there's not enough choice.
Pierce Brosnan
#9. Many will be busied in taking away from a thing, which will grow in proportion as it is diminished.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#10. There were, in his opinion, drugs that diminished ego and drugs that engorged ego, which is to say, revelatory drugs and delusory drugs; and on a psychic level, at least, he favored awe over swagger.
Tom Robbins
#11. 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?
Paul Craig Roberts
#12. 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.
Bertrand Russell
#13. The ability to get on the air, which was crucial to any reporter's career, grew precisely as the ability to analyze diminished.
David Halberstam
#14. Strictly speaking, there is but one real evil: I mean acute pain. All other complaints are so considerably diminished by time that it is plain the grief is owing to our passion, since the sensation of it vanishes when that is over.
Mary Wortley Montagu
#15. 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. Does he actually grasp the implications of the words he speaks?
Jonathan Raban
#16. 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.
James Russell Lowell
#17. When we consider the being and substance of that universe in which we are immutably set, we shall discover that neither we ourselves nor any substance doth suffer death. For nothing is in fact diminished in its substance, but all things, wandering through infinite space, undergo change of aspect.
Giordano Bruno
#18. 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.
Joni Mitchell
#19. Cats, no less liquid than their shadows,
Offer no angles to the wind.
They slip, diminished, neat, through loopholes
Less than themselves.
A.S.J. Tessimond
#20. The exercise of letters is sometimes linked to the ambition to contruct an absolute book, a book of books that includes the otherslike a Platonic archetype, an object whose virtues are not diminished by the passage of time.
Jorge Luis Borges
#21. I was always curious about the anxiety a person would feel when you open your mouth and you have an accent. You could have a Ph.D. or be a lawyer, but as soon as you say something, you may be diminished in the eyes of someone else.
Dinaw Mengestu
#22. I don't want to say that the poor are inherently cognitively diminished, but at the end of the day of making difficult, tough decisions, it's very hard to have the energy to think about things with the right mindset.
Dan Ariely
#23. The worship of youth has diminished - perhaps generally - in recent years.
Vince Cable
#24. 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.
Indur M. Goklany
#25. Poverty is a national waste as well as individual waste. We are all diminished when any of us are denied proper education. The nation is the poorer - a poorer economy, a poorer civilization, because of this human and national waste.
Gough Whitlam
#26. A flame that flickered,
And a soul that whimpered,
A candle that blazed,
And a fragrance that raised.
The flames were fed the same,
But one remained diminished,
While the other touched vintage!
Jasleen Kaur Gumber
#27. You know how you finish a bag of chips and you hate yourself? You know you've done nothing good for yourself. That's the same feeling, and you know it is, after some digital binge. You feel wasted and hollow and diminished.
Dave Eggers
#28. 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.
Walt Disney
#29. 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.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#30. I would prefer my experiences in communication to have a growth-promoting effect, both on me and on the other, and I should like to avoid those communication experiences in which both I and the other person feel diminished.
Carl R. Rogers
#31. He snorted. "He thinks killing a day-old hydra has made him a hero." None of the songs had ever mentioned the Vandalus Hydra being one day old: it diminished the story more than a little.
Naomi Novik
#32. If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force.
Charles Baudelaire
#33. I cannot live without you. For to attempt to do so would be to rob both of us of each other, and that is thievery of the greatest sort.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#34. 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.
James Irwin
#35. Absolute nakedness was intrusive, confusing to the senses. Paradoxically, it both revealed and diminished identity.
P.D. James
#36. Laboring through a world every day more stultified, which expected salvation in codes and governments, ever more willing to settle for suburban narratives and diminished payoffs
what were the chances of finding anyone else seeking to transcend that, and not even particularly aware of it?
Thomas Pynchon
#37. Do not disregard or hate the maps on your skin and soul. These scars have never diminished your worth, they are the stories that make you whole.
Nikita Gill
#38. 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.
Al Gore
#39. The literature has only these words of comfort for a patient and her family at this stage. Remember, there is still a living spirit inside this diminished person, the spirit of someone you love.
Dan Gasby
#40. The question that he frames in all but words is what to make of a diminished thing.
Robert Frost
#41. When a creature is exposed to violence, it will tend to adapt to that disturbance, so that when the violence ceases or the creature is allowed its freedom, the healthy instinct to flee is hugely diminished, and the creature stays put instead.
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
#42. The Greeks distinguished between good and bad behavior, language that enhanced or diminished persons. Being intoxicated with scientism, we fail to recognize that the seemingly technical terms used to identify psychiatric illnesses and interventions are simply dyphemisms and euphemisms.
Thomas Szasz
#43. The idea that music is art has been something we advocated for years. And yet it doesn't receive the same treatment as art in the sense of the value of what it is, especially nowadays when it's been devalued and diminished to almost the point that it has to be given away for free.
RZA
#44. 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.
Bram Stoker
#45. Look at the sky. Does its sapphire hue dim when you take a single breath? Are the stars drawn closer when you weep? The sky cannot be diminished so. Thus it is with the spirit: it is a thing without beginning or end.
Elaine Cunningham
#46. 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.
John Buchanan Robinson
#47. Reputation is but a synonym of popularity: dependent on suffrage, to be increased or diminished at the will of the voters.
Washington Allston
#48. It is one thing to be brave in front of others, perhaps for fear of being branded a coward and becoming diminished in their eyes, but another entirely to be brave when there is nobody to witness your courage. The latter is an elemental bravery, a strength of spirit and character.
John Connolly
#49. It's not that I am not moved by these things, that I don't them in my life. But lately, their power has diminished. - 140
Robin Romm
#50. New York makes even a rich man feel his unimportance. New York is cold, glittering, malign. The buildings dominate. There is a sort of atomic frenzy to the activity going on; the more furious the pace, the more diminished the spirit.
Henry Miller
#51. Most problems could be diminished by the drinking of tea and the thinking through of things that could be done while tea was being drunk. And even if that did not solve problems, at least it could put them off for a little while, which we sometimes needed to do, we really did.
Alexander McCall Smith
#52. Child abuse damages a person for life and that damage is in no way diminished by the ignorance of the perpetrator. It is only with the uncovering of the complete truth as it affects all those involved that a genuinely viable solution can be found to the dangers of child abuse.
Alice Miller
#53. War is one of the constants of history, and it has not diminished with civilization or democracy.
Will Durant
#55. If I have refused to risk, I have in the self-same decision refused to love. And if indeed I have refused to love, tragically I have refused to live. And when will I realize that that in and of itself is an unacceptable risk.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#56. This being requires no proof of love. They are bone of my bone, flesh of my flesh, and for them my everlasting Love and affection will never be diminished. They cannot drift into unworthiness.
William Paul Young
#57. The opportunities of living are diminished in proportion as what are called the "means" are increased.
Henry David Thoreau
#58. Thousands of candles can be lit by just one candle, and the life of that candle will not be shorter because of it. Happiness is never diminished by being shared.
Francesc Miralles
#59. By emotion I mean the modifications of the body, whereby the active power of the said body is increased or diminished, aided or constrained, and also the ideas of such modifications.
Baruch Spinoza
#60. 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.
Edwin Campion Vaughan
#61. As I turn 91 this June 8th, I have to admit my hours at the easel have diminished.
LeRoy Neiman
#62. 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.
Warren Buffett
#63. The character we exhibit in the latter half of our life need not necessarily be, though it often is, our original character, developed further, dried up, exaggerated, or diminished. It can be its exact opposite, like a suit worn inside out.
Marcel Proust
#64. In city after city, newspaper after newspaper has diminished its staff of critics, sometimes to zero. Film and T.V. critics have been dropped and not replaced. Maybe they're deemed unnecessary because nobody cares if anything's good or not.
Tom Shales
#65. Sometimes it seems, we are so diminished by our own shortcomings we are unable to celebrate the success of others.
Carlos Wallace
#66. The reason I wrote 'I'm Too Young for This!' is to spare young women the suffering of hormonal loss - and it is true suffering. You can't sleep, you gain weight for no reason, you bloat for no reason, your moods are altered, and your sex drive is diminished.
Suzanne Somers
#67. 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.
Laura Hillenbrand
#68. If anything, as a general rule, the cheaper the movie the more creative the experience, generally speaking. Its not to denigrate expensive movies. I dont want to seem biting the hands that feed me, but with big movies, especially with a lot of effects, the role of the actor is somewhat diminished.
Alfred Molina
#69. 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.
Rob Enderle
#70. 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.
David Lehman
#71. If you only think about yourself - how much money can I make, what can I buy, how nice is my house, what kind of fancy car do I have? - over the long term, I think, you get bored. I think your life becomes diminished. The way to live a full life is to think: What can I do for others!
Barack Obama
#72. The makers of dictionaries are dependent upon specialists for their definitions. A specialist's definition may be true or it may be erroneous. But its truth cannot be increased or its error diminished by its acceptance by the lexicographer. Each definition must stand on its own merits.
Benjamin Tucker
#73. 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.
Louis Menand
#74. It is a sad but unavoidable fact of life," he began, "that as we age our social circles grow smaller. Whether from increased habit or diminished vigor, we suddenly find ourselves in the company of just a few familiar faces.
Amor Towles
#75. Maybe it's just a matter of getting older and being aware that the market for medium-budget and low-budget films, which is of course what I spent most of my life making, has diminished. And maybe the quantity of ideas has diminished a little bit.
Roger Corman
#76. 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.
Mitt Romney
#77. For a possession which is not diminished by being shared with others, if it is possessed and not shared, is not yet possessed as it ought to be possessed. The Lord saith
Augustine Of Hippo
#78. 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.
Bernard Gilpin
#79. The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
Dag Hammarskjold
#80. You obey, and you serve Allah - that is the test. If you submit to God's will on earth, you will attain bliss in the Hereafter. The rule is strict and pure. My doubts severely diminished my chances for eternal bliss, but I found that I couldn't ignore them. I had to resolve this. *
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
#81. 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.
Hermann Von Helmholtz
#82. But once a place had been discovered and cataloged and mapped, it was diminished, just another dusty fact in a book, sapped of mystery.
Ransom Riggs
#83. 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.
Douglas Brinkley
#84. God loved us before he made us; and his love has never diminished and never shall.
Julian Of Norwich
#85. Everything's immediately diminished. That's why there's no real rock stars anymore. People are too accessible.
Matthew Healy
#86. We want greatness, but we prefer it tamed and on a leash short enough for us to control it, yet long enough to allow it to retain some remote yet diminished flavor of greatness.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#87. I have suffered through enough illnesses, trauma and heartbreak to finally understand that life will keep moving forward inexorably, if terribly at times. I am starting to realize that it can be delightful too, if I let it. My love is not diminished if I let go of sorrow. I almost believe that.
Jenny Qi
#88. There are times in life when we feel so very alive that when they pass, we feel ... diminished. When that happens, we'll do almost anything to feel so alive again.
Peter V. Brett
#89. The cost of stability is often diminished opportunities for growth
Sheryl Sandberg
#90. If you live in an oppressive society, you've got to be resilient. You can't let each little thing crush you. You have take every encounter and make yourself larger, rather than allow yourself to be diminished by it.
James Earl Jones
#91. 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.
David Hockney
#92. Would there be water shortages? Yes. More starving babies? Unfortunately. Would our quality of life soon be diminished by global warming? Probably. But who, I wondered, but the strongest among us could hold those ideas in their heads and find happiness? Get out of bed in the morning?
Megan Mayhew Bergman
#93. The manufactured consensus of the IPCC has had the unintended consequences of distorting the science, elevating the voices of scientists that dispute the consensus, and motivating actions by the consensus scientists and their supporters that have diminished the public's trust in the IPCC.
Judith Curry
#94. Enemy can't do a thing to diminish God's promises - that ability is decidedly beyond the limits of his power. So instead he lures you into places where your perspective of God's promises will be diminished.
Steven Furtick
#95. 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.
Malcolm Gladwell
#96. The Cold War is over. The kind of authority that the presidents asserted during the Cold War has now been diminished.
Robert Dallek
#97. 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.
Maya Angelou
#98. Cambodia was not a mistake; it was a crime. The world is diminished by the experience.
William Shawcross
#99. Nothing in life that is of value comes easy. If good things came easily then the value would be diminished. When we have a vested interest, when we give everything we have, then, and only then are those good times valuable.
George M. Gilbert
#100. 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.
Pam Brown
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