Top 428 Diminished Quotes & Sayings

Movies are somewhat diminished by blockbusters, which are great, but there's not enough choice.

War is one of the constants of history, and it has not diminished with civilization or democracy.

An honor is not diminished for being shared.

One reason why the progressive state is 'cheerful' is that social conflict is diminished by it.

As I turn 91... I have to admit my hours at the easel have diminished.

Maybe it's just a matter of getting older and being aware that the market for medium-budget and low-budget films, which is of course what I spent most of my life making, has diminished. And maybe the quantity of ideas has diminished a little bit.

As I turn 91 this June 8th, I have to admit my hours at the easel have diminished.

Beauty is not diminished by being shared.

Even if your body doesn't work the way it used to, the heart and the mind and the spirit are not diminished.

The role of Italy and of Austria has diminished as has that of France and Britain; Germany and Japan have suffered catastrophically.

By the time they had diminished from 50 to 8, the other dwarves began to suspect 'Hungry'.

Possessions are usually diminished by possession.

My appetite for self-destruction and misery is greatly diminished. I'm not interested in being unhappy.

The idea that any president represents the world, by definition the United States must be diminished for that to happen.

A great many worries can be diminished by realizing the unimportance of the matter which is causing anxiety.

Cambodia was not a mistake; it was a crime. The world is diminished by the experience.

Reputation is but a synonym of popularity: dependent on suffrage, to be increased or diminished at the will of the voters.

There is a light within each of us that can never be diminished or extinguished. It can only be obscured by forgetting who we are

Either the distances betweem the distant quarters of the globe are diminished, or you have extended the powers of human action.

The fact is that racism, despite all the doomsayers, has diminished

The beauty of empowering others is that your own power is not diminished in the process.

The quality of news coverage has diminished, because giants of the print media are no longer being nurtured properly.

I thought that what I felt for you was right," Luce said. "I loved you until it hurt me, until our love was consumed by your pride and rage. The thing you called love made me disappear. So I had to stop loving." She Paused. "Our adoration never diminished the Throne, but your love diminished me. I never meant to hurt you. I only meant to stop you from hurting me.

A person with ubuntu is open and available to others, affirming of others, does not feel threatened that others are able and good, for he or she has a proper self-assurance that comes from knowing that he or she belongs in a greater whole and is diminished when others are humiliated or diminished, when others are tortured or oppressed.

When I signed in Ottawa two years ago, I felt it was to be an integral part of the team. Over the last two years and more recently over the past year, I feel my role was diminished. This past season, it diminished a lot more. “I would like the opportunity to go somewhere where I can play to the best of my capabilities and be the player that I can be.

Shall we have recourse to the art of printing? But this has not destroyed property or aristocracy or corporations or paper wealth in England or America, or diminished the influence of either; on the contrary, it has multiplied aristocracy and diminished democracy.

If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force.

The fascination for the Great Train Robbery has never diminished.

But I don't think the popularity of flying has diminished a bit.

As his country crumbled around him, Fidel Castro's stature diminished abroad and at home.

The question that he frames in all but words is what to make of a diminished thing.

The influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished.

Subsidies and bailouts cannot compensate for uncertain or permanently diminished market access.

To the receptive soul the river of life pauseth not, nor is diminished.

The worship of youth has diminished - perhaps generally - in recent years.

One consequence of this is that people are expected to make it on their own by chasing clicks or building a brand. What a diminished vision that is.

I don't feel like my speed or my power or my desire to play this game has diminished at all.

The humanity of all Americans is diminished when any group is denied rights granted to others.

The risk that the economy has entered a substantial downturn appears to have diminished over the past month or so.

I have written about cultural dislocation, and I understand the corrosive effect of diminished expectations.

A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.

Respect for character is always diminished in proportion to the number among whom the blame or praise is to be divided.

Most presidents come to Washington bright as freshly minted dimes and leave much diminished.

Thus it is that "Some things are increased by being diminished, others are diminished by being increased." What others have taught, I also teach; verily, I will make it the root of my teaching.

What I say is it's not that Obama hates America. It's not that he's a traitor, that he's a secret Muslim, that he's a Manchurian Candidate. He simply subscribes to an ideology that thinks it would be good for America to have a diminished economy and a diminished role in the world. In other words, Obama is all about what he perceives as global justice.

If the outer world is diminished in its grandeur, then the emotional, imaginative, intellectual, and spiritual life of the human is diminished or extinguished. Without the soaring birds, the great forests, the sounds and coloration of the insects, the free-flowing streams, the flowering fields, the sight of clouds by day and the stars at night, we become impoverished in all that makes us human.

The opportunities of living are diminished in proportion as what are called the "means" are increased.

Absolute nakedness was intrusive, confusing to the senses. Paradoxically, it both revealed and diminished identity.

When you're trying to pass on the best of the stuff you're culling to what should be a hungry culture but you have it diminished... that's kind of disappointing.

The fact is that racism, despite all the doomsayers, has diminished.

Everything's immediately diminished. That's why there's no real rock stars anymore. People are too accessible.

The quality of our lives is diminished every time we lose a great artist.

It's the augmented fourth, or diminished fifth, depending on your outlook on life.

You start comparing people, and ultimately, somebody feels diminished.

Someone said I have had my popularity diminished by getting into the controversy of national education. Perhaps they are right.

The U.S. might have diminished al-Qaeda's capabilities in the border region of Pakistan and Afghanistan, but it has not diminished the threat from radical Islamist terrorists as a whole.

We are not diminished when someone else is added upon.

As to happiness in this life it is hardly compatible with that diminished respect which ever attends the relinquishing of labour.

The cost of stability is often diminished opportunities for growth.

That's sort of the idea that if we, in attempting to explain away that which is experienced, the experience itself is diminished.