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A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.
C. S. Lewis

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.
Benjamin Franklin

Happy, May, Two

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King

Important, Feelings, Words

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How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words.
Maurice Maeterlinck

Words, Try, Soon

When you challenge other people's ideas of who or how you should be, they may try to diminish and disgrace you. It can happen in small ways in hidden places, or in big ways on a world stage. You can spend a lifetime resenting the tests, angry about the slights and the injustices. Or, you can rise above it.
Carly Fiorina

Angry, May, Happen

Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can explain to me what this means. In what way would allowing same-sex partners to marry diminish the marriages of heterosexual couples?
Ted Olson

Marriage, Gay, Another

To describe happiness is to diminish it.
Stendhal

Happiness, Describe

A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.
Frances Burney

Mind, Free, Ambition

Thus the sum of things is ever being reviewed, and mortals dependent one upon another. Some nations increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and like runners pass on the torch of life.
Lucretius

Life, Living, Others

America will be far safer if we reduce the chances of a terrorist attack in one of our cities than if we diminish the civil liberties of our own people.
Nancy Pelosi

America, Far, Attack

You must strive to multiply bread so that it suffices for the tables of mankind, and not rather favor an artificial control of birth, which would be irrational, in order to diminish the number of guests at the banquet of life.
Pope Paul VI

Life, Control, Rather

Humor does not diminish the pain - it makes the space around it get bigger.
Allen Klein

Humor, Pain, Around

People's ideas and fears can make them small but they cannot make you small. People's prejudices can diminish them but they cannot diminish you. Small-minded people can think they determine your worth. But only you can determine your worth.
Carly Fiorina

Small, Cannot, Worth

One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression.
Howard Zinn

War, Freedom, Expression

If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force, our purpose is clear. We want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program.
William J. Clinton

Peace, Purpose, Seriously

I never discuss a novel while I'm writing it, for fear that talking about it will diminish my desire to write it.
Dean Koontz

Fear, Writing, Write

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

Beauty, Else, Seems

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

Reason, Write, Idea

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

Politics, Him, Old

I was born into big celebrity. It could only diminish.
Carrie Fisher

Big, Born, Celebrity

Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn't do to upset one's own vanity.
Dylan Thomas

Fool, May, Become

The accumulation of skill and science which has been directed to diminish the difficulty of producing manufactured goods, has not been beneficial to that country alone in which it is concentrated; distant kingdoms have participated in its advantages.
Charles Babbage

Alone, Science, Country

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

Words, Here, Few

Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former.
William Shenstone

Beauty, Often, Simplicity

Nobody's irreplaceable, including me. I think for too long we've had a cult of personality in this company and in this industry, and frankly, I'd like to see that diminish.
Bill Ford

Long, Nobody, Company

There is in my work a very strong religious foreground and background. In the later work some of that tends to diminish, but it's certainly present in the early work.
Chaim Potok

Work, Strong, Religious

I respect Rush Limbaugh; he is a national conservative leader, and in no way do I want to diminish his voice.
Michael Steele

Respect, Leader, Voice

I am a little older and understand the nature of the business - the older you get the more your skills supposedly diminish, but I think I am getting wiser in how to use my physical skills. That's the frustrating part when you put so much heart and desire into things and feel like you are not wanted.
Randy Moss

Nature, Business, Heart

More company increases happiness, but does not lighten or diminish misery.
Thomas Traherne

Happiness, Company, Misery

Undeniably the American art form, too. And yet more and more, we see films made that diminish the American experience and example. And sometimes trash it completely.
Charlton Heston

Art, Experience, Sometimes

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