Diminutions Quotes

#1. The most dangerous diminutions of freedom come from those who are convinced of their moral rectitude.

Daniel Hannan

#2. There never is absolute birth nor complete death, in the strict sense, consisting in the separation of the soul from the body. What we call births are developments and growths, while what we call deaths are envelopments and diminutions.

Gottfried Leibniz

#3. I read, therefore it writes

Italo Calvino

#4. Photography has clarity in the same way that language has. A word is precise, but its meaning can change based on the words around it: think tank, tank top.

Jason Fulford

#5. We elect our Presidents, be they Republican or Democrat, then start daring 'em to make good.

Will Rogers

#6. Nelly as a handful of hell-on-earth

Jennifer Bernard

#7. You need to let the drivers go for it, and if they bang wheels, too bad. It's fun, it's a good show, the fans are up in the grandstands, and they can scream and shout about it ... that's good; that's what you want.

Jacques Villeneuve

#8. God hath his mysteries of grace,
Ways that we cannot tell,
He hides them deep, like the secret sleep
Of him he loved so well.

Cecil Frances Alexander

#9. Despite the state of denial exhibited by most Democrats, Americans all across the nation acknowledge that changes are necessary to preserve Social Security for today's younger workers.

Jim Sensenbrenner

#10. If you try, you've got a chance at succeeding. Failure isn't guaranteed. If you don't even try at all, you've already failed.

Christi Barth

#11. It is in my internal and external struggles, when it feels like someone is river-dancing on my last nerve, that the fruit of the Spirit is developed.

Matt Chandler

#12. Building fast-growing, globally competitive companies is tough.

Kevin O'Leary

#13. You can be stupid once, but idiotic to do it again. I'll settle for being stupid

Tony La Russa

#14. Artificial intelligence has the same relation to intelligence as artificial flowers have to flowers.

David Parnas

#15. They who stand with breaking hearts around this little grave, need have no fear. The larger and the nobler faith in all that is, and is to be, tells us that death, even at its worst, is only perfect rest ... The dead do not suffer.

Robert G. Ingersoll

#16. You don't leave people who can't defend themselves.

Tori Amos