Top 100 Quotes About Diminish
#1. I watched my parents' fame diminish - as I was getting more conscious, their celebrity was going back down the mountain.
Carrie Fisher
#2. In Islam, rules are important, like the Prophet said innal halaala bayyinun, wa innal haraama bayyinun ["what is halal is clear, what is haram is clear"]. The goal is not to diminish the importance of rules, but to have the right priorities.
Tariq Ramadan
#3. You must strive to multiply bread so that it suffices for the tables of mankind, and not rather favor an artificial control of birth, which would be irrational, in order to diminish the number of guests at the banquet of life.
Pope Paul VI
#4. When people are forced to interact to survive, their prejudices diminish.
Muhammad Ali
#5. He fought for his very survival. If he fought dirty sometimes that does not diminish the fact that he refused to give up.
Nancy Milford
#6. If it is true that rock stars weather into institutions, then Dylan has started now to resemble the Church of England: the dwindling popularity of his product cannot diminish the intensity of the arguments among his congregation.
Robert Sandall
#7. God loves us beyond comprehension, and we cannot diminish God's love for us.
Saint Peter
#8. It is not enough to have a light; it must be shared with others! For the darkness to diminish, we must eagerly share the truth!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#9. Society isn't a simple organism with one nucleus and a fringe of little feet, it's an infinitely complex living structure and if you try to suppress any part of it by that much, and perhaps more, you diminish, you mutilate the whole.
Maureen Duffy
#10. Humble living does not diminish. It fills. Going back to a simpler self gives wisdom.
Rumi
#11. Freedom is indivisible - there is no "s" on the end of it. You can erode freedom, diminish it, but you cannot divide it and choose to keep "some freedoms" while giving up others.
Ronald Reagan
#12. To ennoble is to diminish by robbing people of their complexity, their completeness, of their humanity, which is always clouded by what gets stirred up at the bottom.
Norman Lock
#13. If we accept that we have at least an iota of free will, we cannot throw it back the moment things go wrong. Like a human parent, God will help us when we ask for help, but in a way that will make us more mature, more real, not in a way that will diminish us.
Madeleine L'Engle
#14. The first thing is that we're being attacked by both the Writers Guild and the Producers Guild. Both of these groups are trying to diminish the importance and strength of the director. They're trying to do it through both frontal and side attacks.
John Frankenheimer
#15. There is in my work a very strong religious foreground and background. In the later work some of that tends to diminish, but it's certainly present in the early work.
Chaim Potok
#17. As a civilised society, we have a duty to support those among us who are vulnerable and in need. When times are hard, that duty should be felt more than ever, not disappear or diminish.
Justin Welby
#18. We diminish people when we don't allow them to help us, or when we act like we don't need anything from them and they have nothing to offer us. We also diminish them when we allow them to go on and on, even after we've exceeded our capacity to pay attention.
Harriet Lerner
#19. The world is full of people who are eager to diminish you, to shame you, to put you in your place and to keep you down. If you embrace humility too fully, you are doing the bastards' work for them.
Dean Koontz
#20. I do take the threat of terrorism seriously. You cannot eliminate that threat or diminish that threat by bombing a country.
Howard Zinn
#21. I don't like pictures in books. I feel that the pictures diminish the words, and the words diminish the pictures, and it doesn't work.
Paul Auster
#22. How Are We to Live is a collection of short stories, not a novel. This in itself is a disappointment. It seems to diminish the book's authority, making the author seem like somebody who is just hanging on to the gates of Literature, rather than safely settled inside.
Alice Munro
#23. Wisdom is one of the few things in human life that does not diminish with age.
Ram Dass
#24. I was surprised to find myself so much fuller of Faults than I had imagined, but I had the Satisfaction of seeing them diminish.
Benjamin Franklin
#25. Nursing does not diminish the beauty of a woman's breasts; it enhances their charm by making them look lived in and happy.
Robert A. Heinlein
#26. Prohibition only drives drunkenness behind doors and into dark places, and does not cure it or even diminish it.
Mark Twain
#27. How sad that we often diminish our best gifts by struggling valiantly to develop in someone else's area of ability. It is better to focus on your uniqueness and do that with excellence than to end up with mediocrity in several areas.
Dan Miller
#28. Only those who do not care, only those who find a way to diminish or extinguish the value of other human beings, survive wars without damage and speak of warrior honor afterward.
Aleksandar Hemon
#29. Towns change; they grow or diminish, but hometowns remain as we left them.
Jayne Anne Phillips
#30. Convince your enemy that he will gain very little by attacking you; this will diminish his enthusiasm
Sun Tzu
#31. I am a great enthusiast and early adopter of technology, but sometimes I wonder whether the inexorable integration of technology in our lives could diminish some of our quintessential human capacities, such as compassion and cooperation.
Klaus Schwab
#32. The act of claiming an identity can be transformational. It can provide healing and empowerment. It can weld solidarity within a community. And, perhaps most importantly, it can diminish power from an oppressor, a dominant group.
Simon Tam
#33. In an age that seems to be increasingly dehumanized, when people can be transformed into non-persons, and where a great deal of our adult art seems to diminish our lives rather than add to them, children's literature insists on the values of humanity and humaneness.
Lloyd Alexander
#34. No, if there's any ultimate redemption, it would be because I passed though your life without scarring you, and did not diminish who you are.
Dean Koontz
#35. You snipe so steady, you snub so snide, so rip and ready to diminish and deride.
Joni Mitchell
#36. The best reason to diminish social programs is not to put more money in people's pockets but to put more responsibility in people's pockets.
Mark Steyn
#37. A man's weaknesses may intrude on his faith but they do not diminish it.
Robert Ludlum
#38. ...[T]he sublimity and intrinsic dignity of the command in duty are so much the more evident, the less the subjective impulses favor it and the more they oppose it, without being able in the slightest degree to weaken the obligation of the law or to diminish its validity.
Immanuel Kant
#39. I respect Rush Limbaugh; he is a national conservative leader, and in no way do I want to diminish his voice.
Michael Steele
#40. With what's happened in the world the last three years, it's easier to see why it's become popular again to diminish and revile Arabs and Muslims in American popular culture.
Tony Shalhoub
#41. She sees how you diminish her solitude, and, more meaningfully, she sees you seeing, which sparks in her that oddest of desires an I can have for a you, the desire that you be less lonely.
Mohsin Hamid
#42. Language is our way of communicating what we want and who we are. By using bad language, we diminish the divine spark within us that defines our humanity.
Laura Schlessinger
#43. To say that a family is happy I think is to diminish it, taking out what is interesting. Growing up, I don't think my family was any happier or unhappier than anyone else's. My mother and father should have been divorced or never even married. On the other hand, I remember many moments of happiness.
Per Petterson
#44. We don't use the term 'working class' here because it's a taboo term. You're supposed to say 'middle class,' because it helps diminish the understanding that there's a class war going on.
Noam Chomsky
#45. To imply that domestic abuse is only inflicted against women by men is at best, ill informed, and at worst, intentionally deceptive. To acknowledge domestic violence against men does not diminish the injustices suffered by women. In fact, it gives men and women common cause to go forward together.
Mark Greene
#46. All church activities that dilute, diminish, or detract from worship destroy Verticality, deny the priority of doxology, and forfeit what Vertical Church is all about - glory.
James MacDonald
#47. We cannot diminish the value of one category of human life
the unborn
without diminishing the value of all human life ... there is no cause more important.
Ronald Reagan
#48. Once flooded with light, our boogeymen diminish, no longer ogres in our imagination. We welcome internal dialogue for its treasures.
Gina Greenlee
#49. Buy a $100 U.S. bond and frame it to teach your children about inflation by watching the U.S. bond value diminish to almost nothing over the next 20 years.
Marc Faber
#50. Love is the recognition of the equal in the other," he liked to say. "When you diminish another person, you lose their ability to contribute to you.
Mali Apple
#51. My ambition has always been to reduce a building's support to a minimum. The more we diminish supporting structures, the more audacious and important the architecture is. That has been my life's work.
Oscar Niemeyer
#52. That a woman claims not to be feminist does not diminish the necessity of feminism. If anything, it makes us see the extent of the problem, the successful reach of patriarchy.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#53. When horizons grow or diminish within a person the distances are not measurable by other people.
Virginia Axline
#54. This crowd did not diminish through the whole of that cold, wet day; they seemed not to know what was to by their fate since their great benefactor was dead, and though strong and brave men wept when I met them.
Gideon Welles
#55. A fear-driven spirituality will always diminish rather than enlarge.
James Hollis
#56. Forgiveness doesn't diminish justice; it just entrusts it to God. He guarantees the right retribution.
Max Lucado
#57. The object of any tyrant would be to overthrow or diminish trial by jury, for it is the lamp that shows that freedom lives.
Patrick Devlin, Baron Devlin
#58. To diminish the suffering of pain, we need to make a crucial distinction between the pain of pain, and the pain we create by our thoughts about the pain. Fear, anger, guilt, loneliness and helplessness are all mental and emotional responses that can intensify pain.
Howard Cutler
#59. Every new source from which man has increased his power on earth has been used to diminish the prospects of his successors.
C.D. Darlington
#60. Love, no matter how it's expressed, is still love. We all have flaws, and so our love will be flawed. But that doesn't diminish it.
Erin McCarthy
#61. You actually abolish slavery by accompanying the slave. We don't strategize our way out of slavery, we solidarize, if you will, our way toward its demise. We stand in solidarity with the slave, and by doing so, we diminish slavery's ability to stand.
Gregory Boyle
#62. A few words of Hindi appear here or there, but it's all Urdu. I feel that if the popular culture, which is what Hindi films are, uses Urdu, it's not going to diminish.
Ismail Merchant
#63. Look closely at nature. Every species is a masterpiece, exquisitely adapted to the particular environment in which it has survived. Who are we to destroy or even diminish biodiversity?
E. O. Wilson
#64. Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.
Marquis De Sade
#66. Remain true to yourself and your philosophy. Changing in the face of adversity will in fact diminish your credibility with your customers.
Giorgio Armani
#67. Your thoughts are certain kinds of seeds in your life. You can water them and allow them to grow on fertile soil. Or, you can let them diminish and wither amongst the weeds. Be careful that your seeds are not contaminated as they begin to take root.
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
#68. Somehow all troubles and cares seemed to diminish when you were with the people you loved. Then
James Patterson
#69. But pain is pain, and the importance of preventing unnecessary pain and suffering does not diminish because the being
Peter Singer
#70. Create all the happiness you are able to create; remove all the misery you are able to remove. Every day will allow you,
will invite you to add something to the pleasure of others,
or to diminish something of their pains.
Jeremy Bentham
#71. True rights, such as those in our Constitution, or those considered to be natural or human rights, exist simultaneously among people. That means exercise of a right by one person does not diminish those held by another.
Walter E. Williams
#72. Honer and self sacrifice. Death does not diminish these qualities in a soldier. We shall remember.
Eric S. Nylund
#73. Learned and sociological accepted lines, boundaries, internal perimeters, and partitions diminish the creative space within our minds that's poised and ready.
Ben Abix
#74. The English social anthropologist Geoffrey Gorer, in his 1965 Death, Grief, and Mourning, had described this rejection of public mourning as a result of the increasing pressure of a new "ethical duty to enjoy oneself," a novel "imperative to do nothing which might diminish the enjoyment of others.
Joan Didion
#75. Once our minds are 'tattooed' with negative thinking, our chances for long-term success diminish.
John C. Maxwell
#76. How quickly I judge, and therefore diminish their humanity.
Elizabeth Lesser
#77. Sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of sympathy in the world, sympathy with pain does not really diminish the amount of pain.
Oscar Wilde
#78. When we fracture our potential for united action and divide ourselves along social, political, economic, or religious lines, we diminish our power.
Helen LaKelly Hunt
#79. Three-quarters of the expenditure of wit and the lies told out of vanity that have been squandered since the world began by people who in doing so merely diminish themselves have been squandered on inferiors.
Marcel Proust
#80. I am a little older and understand the nature of the business - the older you get the more your skills supposedly diminish, but I think I am getting wiser in how to use my physical skills. That's the frustrating part when you put so much heart and desire into things and feel like you are not wanted.
Randy Moss
#81. And this is an administration - we're not into nation-building, we're focused on justice. And we're going to get justice. It's going to take a while, probably. But I'm a patient man. Nothing will diminish my will and my determination - nothing.
George W. Bush
#82. Diminish the mass of evils that afflict the human species, increase enjoyment and well-being. And even if the new routes opened up could prolong the average life of mankind by only a few hours, or even a few days, then the scientist, too could aspire.
Antoine Lavoisier
#83. How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words.
Maurice Maeterlinck
#84. To envy is to draw circles that isolate us from others, to take small, bitter trips that diminish the traveler.
Phyllis Grissim-Theroux
#85. Postpone joy, it will diminish. Postpone a problem, it will grow.
Paulo Coelho
#86. Each day of war takes us farther from all we could hope to be or do. We gain nothing but heartbreak, and lose everything we cherish. Our lives erode and diminish, our children see no future except a calendar of anguish and death. Our only hope for tomorrow is for peace now.
Lloyd Alexander
#87. I found that as I flipped the days on the calendar, the worries I had about our relationship had began to diminish.
Nicholas Sparks
#88. Many of the signals that either stoke or diminish female desire have to do with the female brain's question: Is it safe here?
Naomi Wolf
#89. Does our ferocity not derive from the fact that our instincts are all too interested in other people? If we attended more to ourselves and became the center, the object of our murderous inclinations, the sum of our intolerances would diminish.
Emile M. Cioran
#90. Meditation may also be thought of as a technique by which we diminish the force of old thought habits and develop new ones.
Dalai Lama
#91. No matter how far society "progresses," our thirst for community and connection will never diminish. Bars satisfy this need.
Jon Taffer
#92. I would say that for the sake of human progress, the best thing we could possibly do would be to diminish, to the point of eliminating, religious faiths. But certainly not eliminating the natural yearnings of our species or the asking of these great questions.
E. O. Wilson
#93. Don't diminish yourself in any way. Dare to be all that you are.
Leonard Jacobson
#94. Adults must aim to diminish their egocentric and authoritarian attitude toward the child and adopt a passive attitude in order to aid in his devleopment.
Paula Polk Lillard
#95. One need not be a saint, or even a mother, to become a bearer of God. One needs only to obey. The divine resides in all of us, but it is our choice to magnify it or diminish it, to ignore it or to surrender to its lead.
Rachel Held Evans
#96. Romania and Bulgaria were particularly irresponsible. If they wanted to diminish their chances of joining Europe they could not have found a better way.
Jacques Chirac
#97. To conceal ignorance is to increase it. An honest confession of it, however, gives ground for the hope that it will diminish some day or the other.
Mahatma Gandhi
#98. We should never let ambition cause us to sacrifice our integrity or diminish our efforts in other areas. However, we need to remember that we never reach a serious goal unless we have the intention of doing so.
John Wooden
#99. We have the world's best military, even though he (President Barack Obama) has done everything he can to diminish it.
Benjamin Carson
#100. Unlike the stiffness of rheumatoid arthritis, the pain from fibromyalgia typically doesn't diminish with activity, and the pain is made worse by cold, damp weather, overexertion, anxiety, or stress.
Deirdre Rawlings
