Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Steele

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

Phyllis Schlafly

The people who want to dissolve or diminish American sovereignty and replace it with global governance never give up. Their modus operandi is to work toward their one-world goal incrementally through United Nations treaties.

Whenever we make a mistake such as talking with a mouthful of food, ordering the wrong kinds of foods or holding our fork like a shovel, we ruin a relationship and diminish our personal brand.

Lower fiscal and external vulnerabilities diminishes the downside risk for these economies over the short term. A continuation of this recent performance is therefore expected in 2006.

Peter Clarke

Since July, the pace of investigation, the scale of the threat has not diminished in any way whatsoever.

If the informant got too good a deal, it would diminish his credibility.

Ben Gibbard

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.

Overall, we had a phenomenally good year in terms of boating safety. I don't mean to diminish the impact of that accident, but it was a safe year except for that.

John Updike

Midas's Law: Possession diminishes perception of value, immediately

Tom Zbikowski

It doesn't matter who we're facing next week. We're going to have to get better. I don't think this is going to diminish our confidence. We're going to come back and show our true character.

That was in no way meant to diminish the honor received by the band. We have to explore the issue from all angles, especially an issue as important as our students going overseas.

Sean Miller

He's going to have to figure out what keeps him from getting 21 in the second half, too. In no way does that diminish his game. I thought he played a terrific game. He only had one turnover and especially in the first half, I thought he was the difference-maker. But man, when you see a guy play like that, everyone wonders, can we get that in the second half, too?

Eduardo Galeano

Every two weeks, a language dies. The world is diminished when it loses its human sayings, just as when it loses its diversity of plants and beasts.

I don't know of a single teacher in Texas who wouldn't welcome the possibility of getting a raise of $10,000, and if the head of a labor union wants to demean and diminish the hard work and the value of teachers, then he or she should be ashamed.

Adrienne Rich

Any woman's death diminishes me.

Desmond Tutu

If I diminish you, I diminish myself

Carrie Fisher

I watched my parents' fame diminish - as I was getting more conscious, their celebrity was going back down the mountain.

Val McDermid

A lot of reality TV is repellent, but that doesn't diminish the qualities of some of the people who take part. There are decent people in there who have no alternatives.

When Arab apologists wring their hands over an Israeli military incursion, they never mention what the Israelis are reacting to, or else diminish and distort it.

Rory Stewart

September 11th has produced only miniature heroes because our culture has freed itself from many of the old, dangerous, elitist fantasies of heroism... But in so doing, we have not only tamed and diminished heroes. We have risked taming and diminishing ourselves.

We must never forget or diminish the sacrifices of those who gave everything for this nation.

Freda Adler

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.

Pierce Brosnan

Movies are somewhat diminished by blockbusters, which are great, but there's not enough choice.

David Petraeus

Every civilian's death diminishes us, collectively.

While the Fed's rate hike yesterday (Tuesday) may seem to have diminished reaction to today's (Wednesday's) CPI report, it will nonetheless be important,

Tom Daschle

What happened on September 11th did not diminish our strength, ... It renewed it.

We all want to fall in love. Why? Because that experience makes us feel completely alive. Where every sense is heightened, every emotion is magnified, our everyday reality is shattered and we are flying into the heavens. It may only last a moment, an hour, an afternoon. But that doesn't diminish its value. Because we are left with memories that we treasure for the rest of our lives

The odds of an October rate hike have been greatly diminished by this employment report,

Don Ward

It's not meant to diminish the customer's relationship with the partner at all. We want to strengthen it.

The availability of the land has really diminished over the last five years.

The adjustments we have made to the transaction in no way diminish the validity of this strategy,

As a practical matter, the options have, for the moment, substantially diminished value, if any.

Sebastian Pinera

The brutal, massive and shameless intervention of the government that we witnessed in the last months has diminished the legitimacy of this election.