#diminished

In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

#bodies #change #constancy #diminished #diversity

The personality problem is so tough when you're not able to pay people. It's bad enough when you can pay people, but, when you have people working for free, often their motivation is diminished considerably. ↗

— John Badham

#bad #considerably #diminished #enough #free

Hall & Oates is one of the few musical groups as satisfying now as it was back then. There's something incredibly musically satisfying about their songs. Nothing has diminished my love for them. ↗

— Ben Gibbard

#amp #back #diminished #few #groups

But I don't think the popularity of flying has diminished a bit. ↗

— Gerard Arpey

#diminished #flying #i #popularity #think

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

#being #computers #day #diminished #face

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

— Grandmaster Flash

#been #constrained #creative #diminished #flows

Or heritage and ideals, our code and standards - the things we live by and teach our children - are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings. ↗

— Walt Disney

#code #diminished #exchange #feelings #freely

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

#been #birth #definitely #did #diminished

As to happiness in this life it is hardly compatible with that diminished respect which ever attends the relinquishing of labour. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

#compatible #diminished #ever #happiness #hardly

Unlike then, the mail stream of today has diminished by such things as e-mails and faxes and cell phones and text messages, largely electronic means of communication that replace mail. ↗

— John M. McHugh

#cell phones #communication #diminished #e-mails #electronic