Diminishes Quotes
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Oh how television diminishes everything.
Nancy Mitford -
Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself.
Norman Vincent Peale
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Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
Gaston Bachelard -
Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy.
Samuel Johnson -
This is an event of such horrifying, unimaginable proportions that I believe it is one where shock grows with time rather than diminishes.
Jack Straw -
Justice denied anywhere diminishes justice everywhere.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -
Time which diminishes all things increases understanding for the aging.
Plutarch -
I get weary of reading about rebirths because we're all growing all the time and it diminishes the life you've lived if you say 'I'm a new person.'
Rickie Lee Jones
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Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it yourself. In giving it, you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed possible.
Norman Vincent Peale -
Sadness diminishes a man's powers.
Baruch Spinoza -
A tax is always a sacrifice which the government demands of individuals.While it only lessens every one's personal enjoyments, it only shifts expenses from one to another.But when it encroaches on productive consumption it diminishes public riches.
Antoine Destutt de Tracy -
We believe it wrong ever to take a dollar from a free citizen without a very necessary public purpose, because each such taking diminishes the freedom to spend that dollar as its owner would prefer.
Mitch Daniels