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Sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of sympathy in the world, sympathy with pain does not really diminish the amount of pain.
— Oscar Wilde
Time may be defined as " dimension governed by activity." Dimension diminishes with inactivity so does the value of time.
— Moutasem Algharati
Evidence ... proves that prohibition only drives drunkenness behind closed doors and into dark places, and it does not cure it or even diminish it.
— Mark Twain
If you feed an appetite, it grows. Satisfying an appetite does not diminish it. It expands it. To diminish an appetite, you have to starve it.
— Andy Stanley
Honor doesn't revise according to company just as integrity doesn't diminish due to circumstance.
— Donna Lynn Hope
Though energy and inspiration diminish, experience grows - the theme of parents and kids, for instance.
— Steve Erickson
But pain is pain, and the importance of preventing unnecessary pain and suffering does not diminish because the being
— Peter Singer
Most DRM solutions diminish the value of the product by either directly restricting a customer's use or by creating uncertainty.
— Gabe Newell
Forfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the universe becomes a market place for you.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Resenting the sun will not diminish its light.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Doesn't the imagination always exaggerate - or diminish - truth?
— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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
Preparing for your journey in the most thorough way possible will not diminish your experiences abroad. It will enhance them.
— Bailey Richert
No, if there's any ultimate redemption, it would be because I passed though your life without scarring you, and did not diminish who you are.
— Dean Koontz
To envy is to draw circles that isolate us from others, to take small, bitter trips that diminish the traveler.
— Phyllis Grissim-Theroux
But Draven did love you,' Annabel protested. 'He told you so as he died. Don't diminish his love, now that he's not here to repeat it to you.
— Eloisa James
Remain true to yourself and your philosophy. Changing in the face of adversity will in fact diminish your credibility with your customers.
— Giorgio Armani
When one's mind is made up ... fear diminishes.
— Rosa Parks
Although I had never known anything but poverty, I knew that no amount of wealth could diminish my shame." From: Caspian Diary
— J.M. Sandler
I do take the threat of terrorism seriously. You cannot eliminate that threat or diminish that threat by bombing a country.
— Howard Zinn
The most dangerous stories we make up are the narratives that diminish our inherent worthiness.
— Brene Brown
Love, no matter how it's expressed, is still love. We all have flaws, and so our love will be flawed. But that doesn't diminish it.
— Erin McCarthy
If someone suffers enough pain and abuse, his volitional capacities will diminish to nothing.
— David L. Conroy
I found that as I flipped the days on the calendar, the worries I had about our relationship had began to diminish.
— Nicholas Sparks
Prohibition only drives drunkenness behind doors and into dark places, and does not cure it or even diminish it.
— Mark Twain
How quickly I judge, and therefore diminish their humanity.
— Elizabeth Lesser
As the excitement of the game increases, prudence is sure to diminish.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Nothing so diminishes democracy as secrecy.
— Ramsey Clark
Criticism is a destroyer of self-worth and esteem. It is heartbreaking how criticism can wound children and diminish their self-esteem.
— H. Burke Peterson
In life there are certain sores that, like a canker, gnaw at the soul in solitude and diminish it.
— Sadegh Hedayat
Animals form an inalienable fragment of nature, and if we hasten the disappearance of even one species, we diminish our world and our place in it.
— James A. Michener
Convince your enemy that he will gain very little by attacking you; this will diminish his enthusiasm
— Sun Tzu
My heartfelt wish for you: as you get older, your self will diminish and you will grow in love.
— George Saunders
When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.
— Bernard Berenson
As a leader he was much too serious by half, a trait she'd seen diminish even the best leaders' abilities.
— K.F. Breene
The only reason I would write a sequel is if I were struck by an idea that I felt to be equal to the original. Too many sequels diminish the original.
— Dean Koontz
To explain is sometimes to diminish. And what does it matter if I believe one thing and you believe another? We share the same end.
— Rachel Joyce
To conceal ignorance is to increase it. An honest confession of it, however, gives ground for the hope that it will diminish some day or the other.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Don't be content with your judgments. They diminish you.
— Walter E. Jacobson
Marriage equality does not diminish the worth of your relationships; it simply recognises the worth of ours.
— Penny Wong
I was surprised to find myself so much fuller of Faults than I had imagined, but I had the Satisfaction of seeing them diminish.
— Benjamin Franklin
Be ambitious, Spend time wanting, pursuing, wishing. Chase things with passion. Dream but never let the chase diminish what you already have.
— Unknown
I have hands full of this radiance. It flows through my fingers. It doesn't diminish.
— Anna Kamienska
You think it begins to diminish with time, the pain, then it comes back and hits you with a rawness and freshness you had forgotten.
— William Boyd
Freedom is like a muscle of the human spirit; it tends to atrophy and diminish with neglect, but grows and becomes stronger from regular use" (p.49).
— Tom Malleson
Don't let anyone or anything to diminish your inner beauty and value of who you are. You are who God says you are. Believe it and embrace it.
— Euginia Herlihy
Tolerate nothing in your life that might diminish your hunger for Gods word. Apply it w vigor & spiritual energy!
— Sam Storms
Being a mother is incredibly important. To the naysayers, I growl, do not diminish it by calling it a job.
— Shonda Rhimes
When horizons grow or diminish within a person the distances are not measurable by other people.
— Virginia Axline
If safety is my goal, living life is not.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Once our minds are 'tattooed' with negative thinking, our chances for long-term success diminish.
— John C. Maxwell
It's such a wonder how people can diminish the worth of your relationship.
— Joanne Crisner Alcayaga
The majority of love affairs are temporary. But that doesn't diminish the possibility the next one might become something more.
— Ally Blake
Towns change; they grow or diminish, but hometowns remain as we left them.
— Jayne Anne Phillips
He fought for his very survival. If he fought dirty sometimes that does not diminish the fact that he refused to give up.
— Nancy Milford
Many of the signals that either stoke or diminish female desire have to do with the female brain's question: Is it safe here?
— Naomi Wolf
Judgment helps one to make the appropriate decision at the appropriate moment and diminish the influence of fate.
— Darin Strauss
Caroline's being the leader - it doesn't mean I'm her flunky. It doesn't diminish me. It's just who she is.
— Robin York
I was born into big celebrity. It could only diminish.
— Carrie Fisher
No matter how far society "progresses," our thirst for community and connection will never diminish. Bars satisfy this need.
— Jon Taffer
We have the world's best military, even though he (President Barack Obama) has done everything he can to diminish it.
— Benjamin Carson
That which serves our spirits enhances our bodies. That which diminishes our spirits diminishes our bodies.
— Caroline Myss
That's all any writing could ever be. Words on paper that burn intensely when read and then diminish over time.
— Tim Seeley
Organizations that can diminish fear are those that are able to motivate, create, and innovate.
— Chip Conley
Violence diminishes our humanity.
— Coretta Scott King
If I defer the grief I will diminish the gift.
— Eavan Boland
To describe happiness is to diminish it.
— Stendhal
Success, however, does nothing to diminish the knowledge that failure stalks everything you do.
— Michael Chabon
I would never diminish the quality of Hermes. Hermes can be an even rarer and greater quality business, if they ever wanted to work with us.
— Bernard Arnault
When we fracture our potential for united action and divide ourselves along social, political, economic, or religious lines, we diminish our power.
— Helen LaKelly Hunt
If you really want to diminish a candidate, depict him as the foil of his handler. This is as old in American politics as politics itself.
— Karl Rove
You don't want to diminish anybody's pain and suffering.
— James Callis
I watched my parents' fame diminish - as I was getting more conscious, their celebrity was going back down the mountain.
— Carrie Fisher
Love is capital which should never diminish; the greatest acts are not acts of courage, but acts of love.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Once flooded with light, our boogeymen diminish, no longer ogres in our imagination. We welcome internal dialogue for its treasures.
— Gina Greenlee
Only love can be divided endlessly and still not diminish.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Forgiveness doesn't diminish justice; it just entrusts it to God. He guarantees the right retribution.
— Max Lucado
What is precious inside us does not care to be known by the mind in ways that diminish its presence.
— David Whyte
Blot out, correct, insert, refine, enlarge, diminish, interline. Be mindful, when invention fails. To scratch your head and bite your nails.
— Jonathan Swift
Thorns do not diminish a rose's beauty.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
It is not enough to have a light; it must be shared with others! For the darkness to diminish, we must eagerly share the truth!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Never allow your ego to diminish your ability to listen.
— Gary Hopkins