(144 quotes found)
“It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.”
Bruce Lee
“If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another: I hope, upon familiarity will grow more contempt.”
William Shakespeare
“The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.”
Walter Benjamin
“Have you not a moist eye, a dry hand, a yellow cheek, a white beard, a decreasing leg, an increasing belly? Is not your voice broken, your wind short, your chin double, your wit single, and every part about you blasted with antiquity?”
“My interest in literature hasn't decreased. It just gets more passionate, actually.”
William Maxwell
“Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.”
Buddha
“The most striking aspect of the data this year was the intensity or volume of the decreases. This is the largest single-year decrease in the raw numbers of deaths that we've seen since the 1940s.”
Arialdi Minino
“We were surprised by the sharpness of the decrease. It's kind of historical.”
“Starting in 2004, we started to see salaries rise again. In 2002 and 2003 we saw a lot of decreases because of the economy, but it's really good news that we're continuing to see increases.”
Andrea Koncz
“The decrease in pervasive attacks in 2005 is counter-intuitive to what society at large believes is a major threat to their personal data.”
Cal Slemp
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