Quotes of Lessen - somelinesforyou

“ It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you. ”

- Wayne Dyer

“ One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression. ”

- Howard Zinn

“ There is one inevitable criterion of judgment touching religious faith… Can you reduce it to practice? If not, have none of it. ”

- Hosea Ballou

“ If you wish to grow thinner, diminish your dinner. ”

- H.S. Leigh

“ The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them. ”

- Stephen King

“ Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. ”

- Buddha

“ It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases. ”

- Johann Friedrich von Schiller

“ Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire. ”

- Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“ Old soldiers never die; they just fade away. ”

- Dorothee Soelle

“ Danger — if you meet it promptly and without flinching — you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never! ”

- Winston Churchill

“ 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

“ All business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to a judicious use of sabotage. ”

- Thorstein Veblen

“ It's better to burn out, then to fade away. ”

- Kurt Cobain

“ We always weaken whatever we exaggerate. ”

- Jean Francois De La Harpe

“ As our language wanes and dies, the golden legends of the far-off centuries fade and pass away. No one sees their influence upon culture; no one sees their educational power. ”

- Douglas Hyde

“ Tea's proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will not use abstinence. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire. ”

- Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld

“ Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. ”

- Anais Nin

“ How are thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! ”

- Bible

“ Yet I argue not Again Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of right or hope; but still bear up and steer Right onward. ”

- John Milton

“ Now that I look back, I realize that a life predicated on being obedient and taking orders is a very comfortable life indeed. Living in such a way reduces to a minimum one's need to think. ”

- Adolf Eichmann

“ The fact that you have now questioned my sincerity... is regrettable but does not in any way diminish my deep respect for you nor my willingness to find a bipartisan solution to this problem. ”

- Barack Obama

“ May God not weaken your hand. ”

- Unknown

“ If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensation as a carrier behind it you almost don't have to manage them. ”

- Jack Welch

“ Women should try to increase their size rather than decrease it, because I believe the bigger we are, the more space we'll take up, and the more we'll have to be reckoned with. ”

- Roseanne Barr

“ The bridge is getting old and it is an indication it is continuing to weaken. So that type of storm we saw (Wednesday) is something we expect to see in the future. ”

- John Milton

“ I decided I wanted to be a lawyer when I was 11 years of age. ”

- Johnnie Cochran

“ The older I get, the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first - a process which often reduces the most complex human problems to manageable proportions. ”

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

“ What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and pecularities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death… ”

- Octavio Paz
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