Diminish Quotes

• It's better to wait for something that respects you than to go in so low that it diminishes what you've worked for.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Respect
  • Wait
  • Diminish

• As you age, feelings do diminish.

  

  Bette Midler
  • Age
  • Feelings
  • Diminish

• I don't like pictures in books. I feel that the pictures diminish the words, and the words diminish the pictures, and it doesn't work.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Book
  • Feels
  • Diminish

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

  

  Barbara Coloroso
  • Power
  • Process
  • Empowering

• 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
  • Color
  • Mankind
  • Equal

• Envying another's beauty will diminish your own. But when you praise beauty in others your own beauty deepens.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Attitude
  • Praise
  • Diminish

• My intent was not to go after Rush - I have enormous respect for Rush Limbaugh. I was maybe a little bit inarticulate. ... There was no attempt on my part to diminish his voice or his leadership.

  

  Michael Steele
  • Enormous
  • Diminish
  • Inarticulate

• People don't simply wake up one day and commit genocide. They start by setting themselves apart from others, diminishing the stature of those adhering to dissenting beliefs in small, insidious steps. They begin by saying, 'We're the righteous, and we'll tolerate those others.' And as the toleration diminishes over time, the inevitable harms are overlooked. It is for that reason that James Madison wisely wrote that 'it is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties'.

  

  Michael Newdow
  • People
  • Inevitable
  • Genocide

• Do you directly target the violence because it so discourages any kind of economic development? Or do you bring in jobs and rehab homes, knowing that with a sense of opportunity the violence will diminish?

  

  Alex Kotlowitz
  • Violence
  • Development
  • Diminish

• To describe happiness is to diminish it.

  

  Stendhal
  • Happiness
  • Describe
  • Diminish

• I have hands full of this radiance. It flows through my fingers. It doesn't diminish.

  

  Anna Kamienska
  • Hands
  • Radiance
  • Diminish

• If people understood that doctors weren't divine, perhaps the odor of malpractice might diminish.

  

  Richard Selzer
  • People
  • Understood
  • Malpractice

• When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.

  

  Bernard Berenson
  • Beauty
  • Appreciation
  • Increase

• Diminish anything around you and you diminish yourself.

  

  Ben Mikaelsen
  • Diminish

• A few words of Hindi appear here or there, but it's all Urdu. I feel that if the popular culture, which is what Hindi films are, uses Urdu, it's not going to diminish.

  

  Ismail Merchant
  • Culture
  • Film
  • Feels

• And I'm hoping that over the next 20, 50 years, whatever, the mystique of television and film and all that will diminish somewhat, and people will leave us alone to get on with our jobs.

  

  Erika Slezak
  • People
  • Leaving
  • Television

• Admitting your weaknesses does not diminish your strengths: it shows your courage.

  

  Erin Andrews
  • Weakness
  • Diminish
  • Admitting

• Everything that exalts and expands consciousness is good, while that which depresses and diminishes it is evil.

  

  Miguel de Unamuno
  • Evil
  • Consciousness
  • Depressing

• Secrets have power. And that power diminishes when they are shared, so they are best kept and kept well. Sharing secrets, real secrets, important ones, with even one other person, will change them. Writing them down is worse, because who can tell how many eyes might see them inscribed on paper, no matter how careful you might be with it. So it's really best to keep your secrets when you have them, for their own good, as well as yours.

  

  Erin Morgenstern
  • Important
  • Writing
  • Paper

• I was born into big celebrity. It could only diminish.

  

  Carrie Fisher
  • Born
  • Bigs
  • Diminish