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Tag Name "Diminishes" (104)

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Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action.
Walter Inglis Anderson
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We believe it wrong ever to take a dollar from a free citizen without a very necessary public purpose, because each such taking diminishes the freedom to spend that dollar as its owner would prefer.
Mitch Daniels
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The law, which restrains a man from doing mischief to his fellow citizens, though it diminishes the natural, increases the civil liberty of mankind.
William Blackstone
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I hold it to be of great prudence for men to abstain from threats and insulting words towards any one, for neither the one nor the other in any way diminishes the strength of the enemy but the one makes him more cautious, and the other increases his hatred of you, and makes him more persevering in his efforts to injure you
Niccolo Machiavelli
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Habit simplifies our movements, makes them accurate, and diminishes fatigue.
William James
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Wanting someone so much that his very presence takes your breath away is one of the most thrilling happenings in life. Not getting him in no way diminishes this.
Perry Brass
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Our test is infallible. Whatever view of reality deepens our sense of the tremendous issues of life in the world wherein we move, is for us nearer the truth than any view which diminishes that sense.
William Ralph Inge
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The vital air of friendship is composed of confidence. Friendship perishes in proportion as this air diminishes.
Philibert Joseph Roux
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Grief diminishes when it has nothing to grow upon.
Publilius Syrus
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Joy multiplies when it is shared among friends, but grief diminishes with every division. That is life.
R. A. Salvatore
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I get weary of reading about rebirths because we're all growing all the time and it diminishes the life you've lived if you say 'I'm a new person.
Rickie Lee Jones
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I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear knowing what must be done does away with fear.
Rosa Parks
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We've gotta dispense with calling guys who are effeminate or who throw like girls sissies. You know why? Because that diminishes women, and that can lead to such things as you decking your woman in a hotel elevator in New Jersey with your fist.
Rush Limbaugh
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By nature, I think I am a pretty private person, and that is what is hard even doing interviews for films that I really love doing, because in some ways, it diminishes the experience that I had.
Steve Buscemi
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I don't care how cheap the box is that you put a diamond ring in, nothing about the box diminishes the value of the content.
T. D. Jakes
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Just in ratio as knowledge increases, faith diminishes.
Thomas Carlyle
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I think in many ways, the texture of technology actually diminishes human beings. It doesn't augment them.
Tod Machover
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A crowd, proportionately to its size, magnifies all that in its units pertains to the emotions, and diminishes all that in them pertains to thought.
Max Beerbohm
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A choir is made up of many voices, including yours and mine. If one by one all go silent then all that will be left are the soloists. Don’t let a loud few determine the nature of the sound. It makes for poor harmony and diminishes the song.
Vera Nazarian
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Old age is not an illness, it is a timeless ascent. As power diminishes, we grow toward the light.
May Sarton
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Solve global warming, eliminate the nuclear threat, and we will still have to confront the vastness of our species and the way it diminishes, without thinking, all the other species around it.
Verlyn Klinkenborg
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I like people with big talents and small neuroses - not always an easy combination to find. I've discovered that if the neurosis is too big, it diminishes the talent and you wind up working too hard for what you get.
Mel Brooks
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The stress of an action diminishes rapidly after that action is performed.
Marshall Sylver
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Whatever the color of a man's skin, we are all mankind. So every denial of freedom, of equal opportunity for a livelihood, or for an education, diminishes me.
Everett Dirksen
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