Top 217 Diminishing Quotes & Sayings

It is an odd mode of diminishing one's own weakness to ask a friend to lend us the equal force of his.

Fancy restrained may be compared to a fountain, which plays highest by diminishing the aperture.

Nothing is more diminishing than trying to control success or hold on to things.

The great man who thinks greatly of himself, is not diminishing that greatness in heaping fuel on his fire.

Per capita availability of good, potable water is diminishing in all developed and developing countries.

Aging is the diminishing of early fearlessness.

I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting.

Each cent you apply toward diminishing your debt replenishes you.

Now that our media companies and it appears are policies are traded for cash, what is there to check the continuing consolidation of power and diminishing of democracy?

There is no justice, and great harm, in diminishing the whole array of future opportunity to save a few people now from a regrettable fate.

The U.S. should be equally responsible for diminishing the cocaine market within the United States as it is in fighting the drug elsewhere.

A single candle can light a thousand more without diminishing itself.

It is a terrible, an inexorable, law that one cannot deny the humanity of another without diminishing one's own: in the face of one's victim, one sees oneself.

Reason and faith cannot be separated without diminishing the capacity of men and women to know themselves, the world and God in an appropriate way.

The law of diminishing returns means that even the most beneficial prinicple will become harmful if carried far enough.

It is not for me to change you. The question is, how can I be of service to you without diminishing your degrees of freedom?

The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it.

Diminishing violence is a goal everyone can support, and I look forward to participating in the debate when specific proposals come before the House.

We removed 'Russia Today' from the logo after many colleagues, also from foreign media, told us that it was diminishing our potential audience.

Fashion seldom interferes with nature without diminishing her grace and efficiency.

Any concerns that Romney will adopt McCain's milquetoast campaign model are quickly diminishing.

Wikipedia was a big help for science, especially science communication, and it shows no sign of diminishing in importance.

When maintaining a relationship means diminishing your self, it's time to walk.

The law of diminishing returns is something I really believe in.

Knowledge is the only instrument of production that is not subject to diminishing returns.

[On how she goes about trying to live authentically] Well really listening to my point of view and if I am on a set, say, that doesn't really value a woman's point of view, regardless of how they feel, continuing to give my point of view and try to find a way to be heard and not diminishing myself because other people are diminishing me. Because that, I think, is the worst temptation that, you know, you judge yourself by how others are judging you, and to fall into that trap is to walk into the realm of self-annihilation.

Horror and panic themselves are forms of violence, and diminishing them, restricting their dimensions, is itself a civilizing act.

Love in its early stages rarely maintains a level, it always seems to be growing or diminishing.

Whenever you compete, trying harder is truly the game of diminishing returns and a losing one at that

If you're running on fumes, you get to a point of diminishing results. Get some rest.

It is the special quality of love not to be able to remain stationary, to be obliged to increase under pain of diminishing.

War is usually fought over diminishing resources, particulary those that we perceive to be extremely valuable.

One of the grave dangers inherent in the various stages of any theatrical career-whether it be budding, quiescent or diminishing-is the advice of friends.

There are some persons we could not cut down to size without diminishing ourselves as well.

Nothing is so capable of diminishing self-love as the observation that we disapprove at one time what we approve at another.

If the economy can only provide a diminishing political dividend, Chinese leaders will encourage their people to feel pride and vigor in other ways.

No one can fail to see that the power of the Church among large numbers in many communities is today diminishing, or has already ceased.

It is quite plausible that the process of increased fragmentation of production across borders is subject to 'diminishing returns' and has its natural limits.

There is a point at which we begin to receive a diminishing return on the accumulation of sacred knowledge unless we use it to at least try to improve the world.

There must be something rotten in the very core of a social system which increases its wealth without diminishing its misery

I don't want to repeat myself. I hate the idea of coasting and of recycling the same ideas. Then, you're just subject to the law of diminishing returns.

The line between what I really am, and what I am on reel, is slowly diminishing.

All this creative power of the mind amounts to no more than the faculty of compounding, transposing, augmenting, or diminishing the materials afforded us the by senses and experience.

Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.

I get diminishing returns when I bore myself in an interview.

One cannot deny the humanity of another without diminishing one's own.

Large conventional power plants will continue to be built, but their significance for energy supply is diminishing.

The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future.

Tossing doughnuts, fritters or fried dumplings in fennel sugar adds grown-up complexity without diminishing the indulgence factor.

That [race] is still part of what [Barack Obama] is riding on. Except that, too, is diminishing.

The whole conflict thus boils down to a question of degree. We of the minority see a law of diminishing returns in progress; our opponents do not.

The Law of Diminishing Returns is true of everything in life, except sex, which seems endlessly repeatable with effect.

When male allies make space for women, they're not diminishing their own power. Rather, they're enhancing everyone's.

Everybody will always find some way of diminishing your work, but it's all a lie!

When resources become skimpy, human beings don't suddenly cooperate to conserve what's left. They fight to the last scrap for possession of a diminishing resource.

Population diminishing, even in Japan and Italy, the population is diminishing. When society can reach a sustainable place or gain comfortable income, then people tend to have fewer children. Poverty makes a chain reaction of having many children. So when society reaches some kind of level, then it will turn toward getting a smaller population.

The enjoyment has been diminishing. Now, there's no question that it's sort of fun to get high.

It really doesn't take brains to be a politician as much as it takes stomach. Both would be nice, but in America we have accepted diminishing returns in this arena.

There are times when you are growing through experiences, but sometimes there is a point of diminishing returns in terms of growth.

Other composers have taken this particular technique much further than I in the meantime, with the result that the Law of Diminishing Returns has begun to apply.