#dim

The attack did not succeed as well as I had hoped, no small impediment having been the loss of my right leg. ↗

— Peter Stuyvesant

#been #did #had #having #hoped

There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#dime #heads #i #many #ny times

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

#diminish #ease #fool #i #i can

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

— Bernard Berenson

#appreciation #diminish #else #everything #increase

All of these reissues were not authorized by me, I do not endorse them, the live album was put out without my permission, and I've not seen a dime at this point, either. ↗

— Jello Biafra

#authorized #dime #either #endorse #i

The closer Iraq approaches freedom and democracy, the more impediments and barriers the terrorists will erect. ↗

— Howard Coble

#barriers #closer #democracy #erect #freedom

The only person who had any control was Jonathan Harris. His character was so flamboyant that he was able to make things happen. My character was fairly one-dimensional, so I had my relationship with Dr. Smith and with the family. ↗

— Mark Goddard

#any #character #control #dr #fairly

The Earth reminded us of a Christmas tree ornament hanging in the blackness of space. As we got farther and farther away it diminished in size. Finally it shrank to the size of a marble, the most beautiful marble you can imagine. ↗

— James Irwin

#beautiful #blackness #christmas #christmas tree #diminished

We really only came around to accepting and integrating the propositional dimension of identity into a concept of ourselves at the time of the American Revolution. ↗

— Samuel P. Huntington

#american #american revolution #around #came #concept

In order to more fully understand this reality, we must take into account other dimensions of a broader reality. ↗

— John Archibald Wheeler

#broader #dimensions #fully #into #more