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A bittersweet truth: she wasn't anyone's baby anymore. She'd been left bereft. Her value diminished. She was poor. Alex
— Suanne Laqueur
Where you find the attraction for lust and wealth considerably diminished, to whatever creed he may belong, know that his inner spirit is awakening.
— Swami Vivekananda
The opportunities of living are diminished in proportion as what are called the "means" are increased.
— Henry David Thoreau
A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.
— Benjamin Franklin
'The bully pulpit' is somewhat diminished in our age of fragmented attention and fragmented media.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
If my mind cannot be tied down, if my dreams cannot be diminished, then no amount of restraints can really guarantee my quiet submission.
— Deborah Feldman
The risk that the economy has entered a substantial downturn appears to have diminished over the past month or so.
— Ben Bernanke
Dillon diminished my sense of feeling alive, Gavin. But you ... your brought that back to me.
— Gail McHugh
Most presidents come to Washington bright as freshly minted dimes and leave much diminished.
— George Will
Hip Hop has become real constrained. The creative juices and creative flows have been diminished.
— Grandmaster Flash
Every two weeks, a language dies. The world is diminished when it loses its human sayings, just as when it loses its diversity of plants and beasts.
— Eduardo Galeano
At our noblest we announce to the darkness that we will not be diminished by the brevity of our lives.
— Cormac McCarthy
The surfeit of bad trends pushes me to set my stories in worlds which are often diminished versions of our own present.
— Paolo Bacigalupi
I cannot live without you. For to attempt to do so would be to rob both of us of each other, and that is thievery of the greatest sort.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Even if your body doesn't work the way it used to, the heart and the mind and the spirit are not diminished.
— Christopher Reeve
Cats, no less liquid than their shadows,Offer no angles to the wind.
They slip, diminished, neat, through loopholes
Less than themselves. — A.S.J. Tessimond
When we believe a wounding story, our whole world is diminished.
— Sharon Salzberg
One reason why the progressive state is 'cheerful' is that social conflict is diminished by it.
— Kenneth E. Boulding
The unmerited dislike of another made one think less of oneself. We are enlarged by the love of others; we are diminished by their dislike.
— Alexander McCall Smith
When people restrain themselves out of fear, their lives are by necessity diminished. They become rigid and defensive, and their self stops growing.
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Extreme visual clarity, tunnel vision, diminished sound, and the sense that time is slowing down. this is how the human body reacts to extreme stress.
— Malcolm Gladwell
The risk of an all-out nuclear holocaust destroying all life on the planet has diminished, but the danger of actual nuclear weapons use has increased.
— David Cortright
But once a place had been discovered and cataloged and mapped, it was diminished, just another dusty fact in a book, sapped of mystery.
— Ransom Riggs
This diminished the entire joy, the pure joy, of the two notes sounding together, and let the sound die on her ear now with a dismal flatness.
— Virginia Woolf
Love means that we remain committed to loving even at the times when the emotion is so diminished or altogether missing that we can't feel it.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Man is diminished if he lives without knowledge of his past; without hope of a future he becomes a beast.
— P.D. James
Many will be busied in taking away from a thing, which will grow in proportion as it is diminished.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
Calling a man a god did not elevate the man, it only diminished the idea of godhood.
— Orson Scott Card
Athletics carries its own set of truths, and those truths are diminished when manipulated by people with agendas.
— Chris Crutcher
The more we see the grace of God in Christ, the spirit of fear is diminished and replaced by a spirit of love and boldness.
— Richard Sibbes
The beauty of empowering others is that your own power is not diminished in the process.
— Barbara Coloroso
Respect for character is always diminished in proportion to the number among whom the blame or praise is to be divided.
— James Madison
If you avoid your truthful emotions and pain you will implode and contract into a diminished and feeble state.
— Bryant McGill
The humanity of all Americans is diminished when any group is denied rights granted to others.
— Julian Bond
As to happiness in this life it is hardly compatible with that diminished respect which ever attends the relinquishing of labour.
— Anthony Trollope
Sometimes it seems, we are so diminished by our own shortcomings we are unable to celebrate the success of others.
— Carlos Wallace
Everything's immediately diminished. That's why there's no real rock stars anymore. People are too accessible.
— Matthew Healy
The forces of adversaries are more diminished by the loss of those who flee than of those who are killed.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
For if a thing is not diminished by being shared with others, it is not rightly owned if it is only owned and not shared.
— Saint Augustine
We are not diminished when someone else is added upon.
— Jeffrey R. Holland
If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force.
— Charles Baudelaire
By acquiescing in an act that causes such suffering to a living creature, who among us is not diminished?
— Rachel Carson
Absolute nakedness was intrusive, confusing to the senses. Paradoxically, it both revealed and diminished identity.
— P.D. James
A great many worries can be diminished by realizing the unimportance of the matter which is causing anxiety.
— Bertrand Russell
Remember - the light of the world will never be diminished, so long as you are brave enough to carry the flame.
— Leslie Soule
More than once Jesus deliberately addressed certain issues that quickly diminished the number of onlookers. It was commitment that thinned the ranks.
— Charles R. Swindoll
I think, if you have enough inner resources, then you can live in isolation for long periods of time and not feel diminished by it.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
— Dag Hammarskjold
The fact is that racism, despite all the doomsayers, has diminished.
— Constance Baker Motley
As fire's presence in our everyday lives has diminished, the social magnetism of the cook fire seems, if anything, to have only grown more powerful.
— Michael Pollan
Ooh, I like this one!" Connor says. "'Diminished prospects for future.' Sounds like a stock report!
— Neal Shusterman
No person's gain in wisdom is diminished by anyone else's gain.
— Charles A. Reich
That's sort of the idea that if we, in attempting to explain away that which is experienced, the experience itself is diminished.
— Fred Alan Wolf
If a man marries his housekeeper or his cook, the national dividend is diminished.
— Arthur Cecil Pigou
You are A MAN, not just a man; don't be diminished. Live up to your grand potential.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
His knowledge of books had in some degree diminished his knowledge of the world.
— William Shenstone
God loved us before he made us; and his love has never diminished and never shall.
— Julian Of Norwich
We may never know why Joe Ellis fabricated a heroic past. But we know that the life he embellished has deeply diminished the life he'd earned.
— Ellen Goodman
Of all the afflictions mortal man must face, it is the torment of guilt that cannot be diminished, neither will it be satisfied.
— Randy McWilson
As the honors accrued, creativity diminished.
— Philip Zaleski
The ability to get on the air, which was crucial to any reporter's career, grew precisely as the ability to analyze diminished.
— David Halberstam
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
— Deepak Chopra
If safety is my goal, living life is not.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
You may not see it, but even the lowliest servant has value, purpose, worth. Everyone has a place and none of those places should be diminished.
— Lorraine Heath
The sum of evil, Pascal remarked, would be much diminished if men could only learn to sit quietly in their rooms.
— Aldous Huxley
Wealth gained by dishonesty will be diminished, but he who gathers by labor will increase.
— Dave Ramsey
I have been vain since birth. I expected other people to like what I did, although my vanity has definitely diminished over the years.
— Wallace Shawn
Movies are somewhat diminished by blockbusters, which are great, but there's not enough choice.
— Pierce Brosnan
By the time they had diminished from 50 to 8, the other dwarves began to suspect 'Hungry' ...
— Gary Larson
When the church begins to entertain the flock and respond to the cult of self - it is diminished to a mere community center.
— Billy Graham
