Lessened Quotes

#1. Networked, we are together, but so lessened are our expectations of each other that we can feel utterly alone. And there is the risk that we come to see others as objects to be accessed - and only for the parts we find useful, comforting, or amusing.

Sherry Turkle

#2. Lessened theory of mind processing has also been linked to paranoia. After all, if one does not accurately model the mental state of another, one may treat it as hostile.

Daniel Nettle

#3. Science is a method of logical analysis of nature's operations. It has lessened human anxiety about the cosmos by demonstrating the materiality of nature's forces, and their frequent predictability.

Camille Paglia

#4. It is not the weight of the future or the past that is pressing upon you, but ever that of the present alone. Even this burden, too, can be lessened if you confine it strictly to its own limits.

Marcus Aurelius

#5. This is, in part, why there is less magic in the world today. Magic is secret and secrets are magic, after all, and years upon years of teaching and sharing magic and worse. Writing it down in fancy books that get all dusty with age has lessened it, removed its power bit by bit.

Erin Morgenstern

#6. Callahan's Law:
Shared pain is lessened;
Shared joy is increased.

Spider Robinson

#7. Isn't it true that if you stare into the eyes of a cobra, the fear has another side to it? The fear is lessened as you begin to see the essence of the beauty.

Richard Preston

#8. I am much beholden to old age, which has increased my eagerness for conversation in proportion as it has lessened my appetites of hunger and thirst.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#9. Let nothing of the truths that have been defined be lessened, nothing altered, nothing added, but let them be preserved intact in word and in meaning.

Pope Gregory XVI

#10. The pain of losing a loved one by the horrible act of murder is not lessened by the horrible murder of another, not even when it is cloaked as 'justice' and state-sanctioned. It is only a delusion to believe that one's pain is ended by making someone else feel pain.

Antoinette Bosco

#11. Our toil is lessened, and our wealth is increased, by our dominion over the useful animals ...

Edward Gibbon

#12. Compare society to a boat. Her progress through the water will not depend upon the exertion of her crew, but upon the exertion devoted to propelling her. This will be lessened by any expenditure of force in fighting among themselves, or in pulling in different directions.

Henry George

#13. Parsons' interest in the OTO had not been lessened by his new workload. Indeed, it had grown stronger as he immersed himself in the writings and philosophy of Aleister Crowley.

George Pendle

#14. Honor is like the eye, which cannot suffer the least impurity without damage. It is a precious stone, the price of which is lessened by a single flaw.

Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

#15. If someone knows from experience that daily Communion increases fervor without lessening reverence, then let him go every day. But if someone finds that reverence is lessened and devotion not much increased, then let him sometimes abstain, so as to draw near afterwards with better dispositions.

Thomas Aquinas

#16. Then the night lessened, the clouds ashened slightly, and the men became starkly black and brown against the gray of the snow.

Ron Hansen

#17. He understood then that neither time nor distance had lessened his love for her.
But was love that made him ache with suffering truly worth fighting for?

Guillaume Musso

#18. ... Jo loved a few persons very dearly and dreaded to have their affection lost or lessened in any way.

Louisa May Alcott

#19. Again, the political and cultural arguments carried weight, and bottleneck regulation has neither been strengthened, nor lessened, in the digital era. Instead, it appears that differentiated regulation remains the preferred solution.

Anonymous

#20. I was highly attracted to chess for forty or forty-five years; then, little by little, my enthusiasm lessened.

Marcel Duchamp

#21. Shared pain is lessened.
Shared joy is increased.
Thus we refute entropy.

Spider Robinson

#22. The susceptibility of the average modern to pictorial suggestion enables advertising to exploit his lessened power of judgment.

Johan Huizinga

#23. I moved to New England partly because it has a real literary past. The ghosts of Hawthorne and Melville still sit on those green hills. The worship of Mammon is also somewhat lessened there by the spirit of irony. I don't get hay fever in New England either.

John Updike

#24. I love to laugh! My life would be lessened if I didn't

Samuel Colbran

#25. Geopolitical drama lessened but did not die after the Cold War; in 2008, the specter of thousands of seeming automatons banging drums at the opening of the Beijing Games frightened and enthralled the world, reminding us that China was a nation on the rise, a competitor for global dominance.

Ben Shapiro

#26. Jokes in the face of calamity made one feel dirty, guilty; they also dissolved the fear and lessened the weight of uncertainty, of which there was to much to bear.

Elif Shafak

#27. The universal utilization of water power and its long-distance transmission will supply every household with cheap power and will dispense with the necessity of burning fuel. The struggle for existence being lessened, there should be development along ideal rather than material lines.

Nikola Tesla

#28. The mysteries of Nature and of humanity are not lessened, but increased, by the discoveries of philosophic skill.

Thomas Noon Talfourd

#29. There is no harm in patience, and no profit in lamentation. Death is easier to bear (than) that which precedes it, and more severe than that which comes after it. Remember the death of the Apostle of God, and your sorrow will be lessened.

Abu Bakr

#30. Disease, which had reduced the number to less than fifty persons, subsided; the oppressive heat lessened; and Indian crops of peas, corn, and beans began to mature.

Charles E. Hatch

#31. Of course drugs were fun. And that's what's so stupid about anti-drug campaigns: they don't admit that. I can't say I feel particularly scarred or lessened by my experimentation with drugs. They've gotten a very bad name.

Anjelica Huston

#32. But me thought it lessened my esteem of a king, that he should not be able to command the rain.

Samuel Pepys

#33. Do not speak badly of yourself, for the warrior that is inside you hears your words and is lessened by them.

David Gemmell

#34. Happy 60th Birthday, good buddy.
How are you dealing with your awful debility,
lessened utility and loss of mobility?

John Walter Bratton

#35. One pain is lessened by another's anguish ... Take thou some new infection to thy eye, And the rank poison of the old will die.

William Shakespeare

#36. Shared joy is increased, shared pain is lessened.

Spider Robinson

#37. Loneliness is lessened when you're lonely by choice.

George Jones

#38. Desire is not always lessened by disgust. Nor can it be bestowed, like a favor, to those most deserving of it. And as my words bind my magic, so you can know the truth. If she doesn't desire his kiss, she won't be free.

Cassandra Clare

#39. Some say that it is lack of imagination which makes men and women brutes. May it not be power of imagination? The interest of torturing is lessened, is almost lost, if we can not be the tortured as well as the torturer.

Robert Smythe Hichens

#40. When I take up a book I have read before, I know what to expect; the satisfaction is not lessened by being anticipated. I shake hands with, and look our old tried and valued friend in the face,
compare notes and chat the hour away.

William Hazlitt

#41. Pain shared is pain lessened; joy shared is joy increased. Thus do we refute entropy.

Spider Robinson

#42. You looked a little bit smarter when your stupidity lessened a lot.

Toba Beta

#43. There was no real comfort in being alone with her thoughts, her memories, but somehow the illusion of freedom lessened her despair.

Octavia E. Butler

#44. The United States must not adopt the tactics of the enemy. Means are important, as ends. Crisis makes it tempting to ignore the wise restraints that make men free. But each time we do so, each time the means we use are wrong, our inner strength, the strength which makes us free, is lessened.

Frank Church

#45. The people I knew, even the people I loved, did not always get things right, and they accumulated acts and omissions that lessened their sense of sureness.

Kadiatou Diallo

#46. It seems to me that the contrast between adjacent syllables has lessened and the result is an over-reliance on enjambment. Now enjambment is a fine, intellectually strong aid, but like all such things it becomes tiresome and calls too much attention to itself.

Christopher Logue

#47. In the same way you can never go backward to a slower computer, you can never go backward to a lessened state of connectedness.

Douglas Coupland

#48. This Apostolic Church never turned from the way of truth nor held any kind of error. It is imperative that nothing of the truths which have been defined be lessened, nothing altered, nothing added, but that they be preserved intact in word and meaning. This is the true rule of faith.

Pope Agatho

#49. Fear of God is a beginning of knowledge.
The fear lessened on a higher knowledge.
Walk with God is on the top of knowledge.

Toba Beta

#50. Through our inattention, we have wasted the years that we might have used to prepare for lessened oil supplies. The next ten years are critical.

Kenneth S. Deffeyes

#51. Many of us learned that passivity lessened the possibility of attack.

Bell Hooks

#52. The Atonement is real. As you steadily do the things the Lord would have you do, a change will occur in you, and Satan's ability to lead you into the things that will destroy you and bring misery to you will become lessened.

Henry B. Eyring

#53. Follow what may, great deeds are not lessened in worth.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#54. She walked away from him, and as he watched her go, he found that the terrible weight in his stomach seemed to have lessened slightly. The

J.K. Rowling

#55. Very few troubles in life couldn't be lessened by a nice smile - that was what her mother always said.

Jojo Moyes

#56. Grief shared was grief lessened.

Karen Marie Moning

#57. His death had left her with an emptiness that she knew would never fill completely. But time had lessened the pain.

Nicholas Sparks

#58. Literature and film in my opinion are like saloons where bottles have no labels. I want to taste each one myself and figure out which is what. If I'm denied this by labelling, then my entertainment is considerably lessened.

Saadat Hasan Manto