Diminishments Quotes

#1. When I lament and darken over my diminishments, I accomplish nothing. It's better to sit at the window all day, pleased to watch birds, barns, and flowers.

Donald Hall

#2. The end of life has its own nature, also worth our attention. I don't say this without reckoning in the sorrow, the worry, the many diminishments. But surely it is then that a person's character shines or glooms.

Mary Oliver

#3. It is only by understanding the cultural complexity and largeness of the concept of agriculture that we can see the threatening diminishments implied by the term 'agribusiness.'

Wendell Berry

#4. Everything is dangerous to him that is afraid of it.

Benjamin Whichcote

#5. I thought maybe since it's you birthday Mr. Tall, Dark and Tattooed would be around. I'm telling you ladies, I'm in stage four lust and it can only be cured by Rule.

Jay Crownover

#6. No," said Miss Marple. "You believed what he said. It really is very dangerous to believe people. I never have for years.

Agatha Christie

#7. Christ is a substitute for everything, but nothing is a substitute for Christ.

Henry Allen Ironside

#8. I read so much about men who aren't what they seem, and particularly stories written by women who found out their husbands had a slew of secrets they knew nothing about.

Jane Green

#9. All have disappointments, all have times when it isn't worthwhile.

John H. Johnson

#10. It's just coincidental that the acting took off first over everything else.

Nichelle Nichols

#11. I just wanted to set a good example. I wanted to do things that I hadn't done before. My whole thing was to just try to be professional. I think when you work hard, good things happen, so obviously, because we're going to the Finals.

Allen Iverson

#12. It seems like the right thing to do is tackle problems other people aren't working on.

Sean Parker