Quotes About Diminishment

#1. After a number of events, what is there left but repetition and diminishment? Who wants to go on living? The eccentric, the religious, the artistic (sometimes); those with a false sense of their own worth. Soft cheeses collapse; firm cheeses indurate. Both go mouldy.

Julian Barnes

#2. Love itself compensates for any diminishment.

Marianne Williamson

#3. When you understand the law of divine compensation, you realize that in the presence of spiritual consciousness, there is more than enough compensation for any diminishment in materiality.

Marianne Williamson

#4. My mothers into frilly dresses and eyelashes and hairstyles from the 1970s. We always argue about that.

Ashley Judd

#5. The ego will endure the worst agonies of neurotic misery rather than consent to one minute of diminishment of its sense of importance.

Helen M. Luke

#6. Cafeteria-style education, combined with the unwillingness of our schools to place demands on students, has resulted in a steady diminishment of commonly shared information between generations and between young people themselves.

Edward Hirsch

#7. As we reach the crest of life and look at the path before us, we apprehend that the path no longer ascends but slopes downward toward decline and diminishment. From that point on, concerns about death are never far from mind.

Irvin D. Yalom

#8. I wonder why it is that we so often imprison ourselves in the opinions of other people. There can be no punishment worse than conspiring in our own diminishment.

Dawna Markova

#9. Most people don't associate anythin'
their ideas just roll about like so many dry peas on a tray, makin' a lot of noise and goin' nowhere, but once you begin lettin' 'em string their peas into a necklace, it's goin' to be strong enough to hang you, what?

Dorothy L. Sayers

#10. 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

#11. No punishment anyone might inflict on them could possibly be worse than the punishment they inflict on themselves by conspiring in their own diminishment.

Parker J. Palmer

#12. Captain Falco saw the diminishment of biodiversity in our oceans over a span of nearly seven decades. He was dedicated to the protection of life and habitats in the sea. He was a legendary mariner, diver, oceanographer, and conservationist. The world is a better place because of him.

Paul Watson

#13. Biodiversity is the greatest treasure we have ... Its diminishment is to be prevented at all cost.

Thomas Eisner

#14. Our spiritual character is formed as much by what we endure and what is taken from us as it is by our achievements and our conscious choices.

Flannery O'Connor

#15. The best of Mozart's works cannot be even slightly rewritten without diminishment.

Peter Shaffer

#16. It wasn't until I slowed the car and rolled down the windows that I realized I spend most of my days driving 'through' life without driving 'in' life. So, I've decided to walk because the pace is slower and the windows are always down.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#17. the daily diminishment is a low flame, a constant drip.

Claudia Rankine

#18. It is not death that I'm apparently now succumbing to, but the rapid diminishment of lifeforce from this body of mine.

Dan Quayle

#19. Everybody I meet in public seems to want to audition for me. If I ask a guy what time it is, he'll sing it to me.

Johnny Carson

#20. God doesn't take things away to be cruel. He takes things away to make room for other things. He takes things away to lighten us. He takes things away so we can fly.

Pat Summitt

#21. I certainly had my years as an out of work actor but I was married with a baby. My wife was supporting us.

John Lithgow

#22. Some leaders think time will solve the problem. Their hope is that Assad's regime will ultimately fall from the heavy toll of the horrors it has spawned. From past experience with such regimes, this scenario is unlikely to happen.

Ahmed Zewail

#23. power is creation, and that when power takes the form of coercion and violence, that is actually a diminishment and distortion of what it was meant to be.

Andy Crouch

#24. But the problem with crests is that they lead downhill. From the crest I can see all the rest of my years stretched out before me. And the view doesn't please me. I see only aging, diminishment, fathering, grandfathering." "But,

Irvin D. Yalom

#25. My little girl, oh, the daughter I never had. Now tell me, angel, are you fucking anybody new?

Michael Cunningham

#26. Atheists well understand that Christmas is the most visible display of religion in the world, and that any diminishment of it is a good thing to militant secularists.

Bill O'Reilly

#27. To owe what you had not yet earned, to have to work to earn what you had already spent, was a personal diminishment, an insult to nature and common sense.

Wendell Berry

#28. As for me, I am intact; and I don't care.

Arthur Rimbaud

#29. I've come to the conclusion the whole Washington scene represents a diminishment of civilization. Our country's in a free-fall to mediocrity, and Congress is leading the way.

Robert Atkinson

#30. Martin is your best friend, isn't he?' a sweet and well-intentioned girl once said when both of us were present: it was the only time I ever felt awkward about this precious idea, which seemed somehow to risk diminishment if it were uttered aloud.

Christopher Hitchens