Top 1101 Diminishing Returns Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

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

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

Tax returns give you nothing. Tax returns give you no information.

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

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

I'll release my tax returns when Barack Obama releases his college transcripts and the copy of his admission records to show whether he got any loans as a foreign student. When he releases that, talk to me about my tax returns.

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

Security concerns are especially high with regard to the e-filing of Income Tax returns that is rapidly being extended from commercial entities to individuals. Leading IT security experts and tax consultants are unhappy at the lack of security in e-filing of Income Tax returns.

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.

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

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

Aging is the diminishing of early fearlessness.

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

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

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

Each cent you apply toward diminishing your debt replenishes you.

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

The rapture will not be secret but open and manifest. Its purpose will not be to whisk the elect away from the earth for a while until Christ returns for a 'second' Second Coming. The purpose of the rapture is to allow the saints to meet Jesus in the air as He returns and be included in His entourage during His triumphal descent from Heaven. His coming in this manner will be attended by the general resurrection, the final judgment, and the end of the world.

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

Trump often says he needs to keep his tax returns private until the IRS finishes auditing him. But the IRS itself has said this isn't necessary. And recently, Trump changed his tune, saying he'll release his returns as soon as Hillary Clinton releases the 33,000 emails she deleted from her email server.

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

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

It has been our experience that if a young man decides to go on a mission, he can not only play well when he returns, he will often play better. If an athlete could play well before he went on a mission, he will definitely play well when he returns; and, if an athlete could not play well before his mission, he probably won't play well when he returns. However, his chances of playing well are perhaps better if he goes because he will return with . . . better work habits, and a better knowledge of what it takes to be successful.

The Trump Foundation's tax returns are public. That's one thing. So we can look through them in a way that we can't look through his personal tax returns. They're publicly available going back to the beginning of the foundation, which is 1987.

Every presidential candidate for decades has released his tax returns, and I've released 33 years of my tax returns. The American people deserve to know about our taxes. And so Donald Trump is standing in the way of precedent that goes back on both sides of aisle Democrats and Republicans, and he clearly has something that he doesn't want us to see.

Investors should always keep in mind that the most important metric is not the returns achieved but the returns weighed against the risks incurred. Ultimately, nothing should be more important to investors than the ability to sleep soundly at night.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Size will hurt returns. Look at Berkshire Hathaway - the last five things Warren has done have generated returns that are splendid by historical standards, but now give him $100 billion in assets and measure outcomes across all of it, it doesn't look so good. We can only buy big positions, and the only time we can get big positions is during a horrible period of decline or stasis. That really doesn't happen very often.

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.

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

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

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?

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

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.

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

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.

What you pay for an investment is the single biggest determinant for how successful that investment will be. When equity prices are high, your returns will be lower. When they are cheap, your returns will be higher.

[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.

For 40 years, everyone running for president has released their tax returns. You can go and see nearly, I think, 39, 40 years of our tax returns, but everyone has done it.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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?

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.

Participant (Productions) is the only production company in town that has a double bottom line: social good plus financial returns. It's too early to tell how our returns are going to look - though all signs are promising - but social good is what we're really after.

He should release the tax returns tomorrow. It's crazy. You've got to release six, eight, ten years back tax returns. Take the hit for a day or two. He has to give a big speech in defense of capitalism, and that will elevate, I think, this race above this tactical back and forth, which I do think he's on the margin of losing.

Bitumen is junk energy. A joule, or unit of energy, invested in extracting and processing bitumen returns only four to six joules in the form of crude oil. In contrast, conventional oil production in North America returns about 15 joules. Because almost all of the input energy in tar sands production comes from fossil fuels, the process generates significantly more carbon dioxide than conventional oil production.

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

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.