Society isn't a simple organism with one nucleus and a fringe of little feet, it's an infinitely complex living structure and if you try to suppress any part of it by that much, and perhaps more, you diminish, you mutilate the whole.
Towns change; they grow or diminish, but hometowns remain as we left them.
To call a king "Prince" is pleasing, because it diminishes his rank.
It is easier to diminish God than it is to enlarge one's heart.
There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.
The need to congregate workers in offices will gradually diminish.
Hatred of evil does not diminish evil, it increases it.
When I came here [to Malaysia] I heard that there is a problem with the concept of pluralism whereby pluralism is understood in a very narrow way, which I think is wrong. This is not to diminish your sense of truth in what you believe but to acknowledge the fact that we live in a world where we need to deal with pluralism. It's a fact.
There are many people who don't do well on a vegetarian or vegan diet, that for them, meat is a very nutritious food. So, I'm not prepared to give up meat. I don't think we need to give up meat, but we certainly need to change the way we raise meat and diminish the amount of it in our diet.
God operates by different rules of time and space. And God's infinite greatness, which we would expect to diminish us, actually makes possible the very closeness that we desire. A God unbound by our rules of time has the ability to invest in every person on earth. God has, quite literally, all the time in the world for each one of us.
Sadness diminishes a man's powers
oh how television diminishes everything.
Anger cannot be overcome by anger. If someone is angry with you, and you show anger in return, the result is a disaster. On the other hand, if you control your anger and show its opposite - love, compassion, tolerance and patience - not only will you remain peaceful, but the other person's anger will also diminish.
All my life I've lived with a future which constantly diminishes but never vanishes.
Recognizing power in another does not diminish your own.
God's love for us is constant and will not diminish, but he cannot rescue us from the painful results that are caused by wrong choices.
The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them.
Triumphs against the natural order of living exact unforeseen payments. At the same time that man attempts to straighten a crooked nature, he is striving to annihilate space, which seems but another phase of the war against substance. We ignore the fact that space and matter are shock absorbers; the more we diminish them the more we reduce our privacy and security.
Don't diminish yourself in any way. Dare to be all that you are.
Envying another's beauty will diminish your own. But when you praise beauty in others your own beauty deepens.