Diminished Quotes

(on visiting the west of Ireland every year since childhood) From the day we arrived here, my sense of Ireland`s importance has never diminished. Everything here seemed exotic to us. Just the sound of the west of Ireland in a person`s voice can affect me deeply.

- Daniel Day-Lewis

(1970, when accepting the Screen Writers Guild Laurel Award) The blacklist was a time of evil, and no one on either side who survived it came through untouched by evil. Caught in a situation that had passed beyond the control of mere individuals, each person reacted as his nature, his needs, his convictions, and his particular circumstances compelled him to. There was bad faith and good, honesty and dishonesty, courage and cowardice, selflessness and opportunism, wisdom and stupidity, good and bad on both sides. When you who are in your 40s or younger look back with curiosity on that dark time, as I think occasionally you should, it will do no good to search for villains or heroes or saints or devils because there were none; there were only victims. Some suffered less than others, some grew and some diminished, but in the final tally we were all victims because almost without exception each of us felt compelled to say things he did not want to say, to do things that he did not want to do, to deliver and receive wounds he truly did not want to exchange. That is why none of us - right, left, or center - emerged from that long nightmare without sin.

- Dalton Trumbo

"It`s funny. I`m now in a more senior position and yet those feelings of sheer utter excitment of going to work just don`t exist any more." - on ER "Certainly, since Anthony Edwards left "ER" (1994), I would say that my work on the show has diminished in terms of the challenges I face as an actress and what I am getting to do creatively on the show. If it continues to be diminished, then I am not going to be very happy".

- Alex Kingston

We`re getting so pulled in by computers and technology, and our kids have their face in the computers all day. The human relationship is being diminished by this.

- Lenny Kravitz

Certainly, since Anthony Edwards left ER" (1994), I would say that my work on the show has diminished in terms of the challenges I face as an actress and what I am getting to do creatively on the show. If it continues to be diminished, then I am not going to be very happy".

- Alex Kingston

A lot of these movies, they`re really enjoyable to see. Really, it`s like smoking crack or something--you walk out and you feel diminished by it. It`s eye candy, just violence and sex. Definitely lots of sex, people making out or showing their tits, which is always fun, but it wasn`t what I wanted to do with my life. I tried it - I tried doing this Angelina Jolie movie (Taking Lives (2004)), a popcorn movie, the first movie I did that`s about nothing. And I didn`t like it, because I do ultimately feel there`s enough crap like this. It`s so much more fun and harder and more challenging to try to make something that`s entertaining but isn`t wasting your time.

- Ethan Hawke

When you`re trying to pass on the best of the stuff you`re culling to what should be a hungry culture but you have it diminished... that`s kind of disappointing.

- Joni Mitchell

I can`t tell you how many people have asked me to show them Stray Cat Strut and that little diminished run on the C. I guess my brain is wired backwards. I don`t know what possessed me to do that, but I did.

- Brian Setzer

I have been vain since birth. I expected other people to like what I did, although my vanity has definitely diminished over the years.

- Wallace Shawn

Hip Hop has become real constrained. The creative juices and creative flows have been diminished.

- Grandmaster Flash

Diversity has been written into the DNA of American life; any institution that lacks a rainbow array has come to seem diminished, if not diseased.

- Joe Klein

I am actually in poor health due to chronic fatigue and immune dysfunction syndrome, and my ability to work is greatly diminished right now, so I have to get better before I can start another big project.

- Laura Hillenbrand

The influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished.

- John Dunning

The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.

- Aaron Scott

An honor is not diminished for being shared.

- Adam Kesler

Repression is not the way to virtue. When people restrain themselves out of fear, their lives are by necessity diminished. Only through freely chosen discipline can life be enjoyed and still kept within the bounds of reason.

- Adam Stegeman

If the demand for home commodities should be diminished, because of the fall of rent on the part of the landlords, it will be increased in a far greater degree by the increased opulence of the commercial classes.

- Alan Skrainka

Mr. Speaker, in the years since we enacted our attack against Iraq, the threat from Iran has only grown more difficult, and our capacity to meet that threat actually has diminished. It is one of the reasons many of us opposed that action against Iraq.

- Alba Quinones

Major social movements eventually fade into the landscape not because they have diminished but because they have become a permanent part of our perceptions and experience.

- Alex Eckelberry

But I don`t think the popularity of flying has diminished a bit.

- Alex Ramsey

In their work, then, as in their play, men and women are more and more coming to share with each other as comrades, and really the fun of life seems in no wise diminished as a consequence.

- Amy Wroblewski

Conflicting commercial regulations of the different States shackled and diminished both foreign and domestic trade; hence the power to regulate commerce was conferred.

- Andre Bauer

For as long as the power of America`s diversity is diminished by acts of discrimination and violence against people just because they are black, Hispanic, Asian, Jewish, Muslim or gay, we still must overcome.

- Andre Heard

His knowledge of books had in some degree diminished his knowledge of the world.

- Andrew Rudnick

Every Asian family in Australia has been diminished by John Brogden`s racism,

- Angel Acosta

Every Asian family in Australia has been diminished by John Brogden`s racism.

- Angel Acosta

It doesn`t matter what meet we`re going to - when you get on the bus he`s the most enthusiastic person there. It`s still a big deal to him. It`s not passe. It`s not old hat. His enthusiasm has not diminished in the least.

- Anthony Macri

The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.

- Dag Hammarskjold

My passion for opera-the eternal truth of drama through music-has grown, while my interest in performance has diminished. Which is perhaps as good a reason as any other to go quietly.

- Lord Harewood

We must remember that we have to make judges out of men, and that by being made judges their prejudices are not diminished and their intelligence is not increased

- Robert Green Ingersoll