#diminish

My diminished girth, in tailor phraseology, was hardly conceivable even by my own friends, or my respected medical adviser, until I put on my former clothing, over what I now wear, which is a thoroughly convincing proof of the remarkable change. ↗

— William Banting

#change #clothing #conceivable #convincing #diminished

I was living in London and I thought, 'There's nothing here for me anymore.' I don't want to become this actor who's going to be doing this occasional good work in the theater and then ever diminishing bad television. I thought I'd rather do bad movies than bad television because you get more money for it. ↗

— Brian Cox

#anymore #bad #because #become #diminishing

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. ↗

— Richard Le Gallienne

#comrades #consequence #diminished #each #fun

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

#being #changed #creatures #dependent #diminish

The truth is that I oppose the Iraq war, just as I opposed the Vietnam War, because these two conflicts have weakened the U.S. and diminished our standing in the world and our national security. ↗

— George McGovern

#conflicts #diminished #i #iraq #iraq war

As I turn 91 this June 8th, I have to admit my hours at the easel have diminished. ↗

— LeRoy Neiman

#diminished #hours #i #june #turn

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

#attack #chances #cities #civil #civil liberties

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

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Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows continually through noble thought and memory. ↗

— Francois Rabelais

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Accordingly, when the supply of gold runs short, the security behind the notes is diminished, the loaning of notes is restricted or suspended, and the panic follows. ↗

— John Buchanan Robinson

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