They say you cannot love two people equally at once,” she said. “And perhaps for others that is so. But you and Will—you are not like two ordinary people, two people who might have been jealous of each other, or who would have imagined my love for one of them diminished by my love of the other. You merged your souls when you were both children. I could not have loved Will so much if I had not loved you as well. And I could not love you as I do if I had not loved Will as I did.
I was born in North London, migrated to Australia when I was four. So when I first came to Australia people saw me as a little English boy. Over the years that feeling of being a little English boy diminished and I felt much more Australian.
And I find - I'm 63, and my capacity to be by myself and just spend time by myself hasn't diminished any. That's the necessary part of being a writer, you better like being alone.
The fact is that racism, despite all the doomsayers, has diminished
If a man marries his housekeeper or his cook, the national dividend is diminished.
The beauty of empowering others is that your own power is not diminished in the process.
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.
That's sort of the idea that if we, in attempting to explain away that which is experienced, the experience itself is diminished.
Over the period from 1988 to 2005, the income share of the top five percent has grown by about 3. 5 percent of global household income, and the shares of all the other groups have diminished. The greatest relative reduction was in the bottom quarter, which lost about one third of its share of global household income, declining from 1. 155 to 0. 775 percent, and now is even more marginalized.
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.
The opportunities of living are diminished in proportion as what are called the "means" are increased.
War is one of the constants of history, and it has not diminished with civilization or democracy.
Once you have had a wonderful dog, a life without one, is a life diminished.
The humanity of all Americans is diminished when any group is denied rights granted to others.
The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
The history of men of science has one peculiar advantage, as it shows the importance of little things in producing great results. Smeaton learned his principle of constructing a lighthouse, by noticing the trunk of a tree to be diminished from a curve to a cyclinder. . . and Newton, turning an old box into a water-clock, or the yard of a house into a sundial, are examples of those habits of patient observation which scientific biography attractively recommends.
Beauty is not diminished by being shared.
Most presidents come to Washington bright as freshly minted dimes and leave much diminished.
The risk that the economy has entered a substantial downturn appears to have diminished over the past month or so.
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.
