Quotes of: Reduce Keyword

Any fool can wash himself, but every wise man knows that it is an unnecessary labour, for nature will quickly reduce him to a natural and healthy dirtiness again.

James Stephens

We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power.

Manuel Puig

We must prepare the ground for creativity. And if this also gives rise later to success in the economic sense, success in terms of Euros and Cents, this will by no means reduce my joy.

Johannes Rau

On the evening of December 25, General Washington in a most severe season crossed the Delaware with a part of his army, then reduced to less than 2000 men in the whole.

Mercy Otis Warren

Refinancing doesn't reduce your debt, it just restructures it, so be clear about what you want to achieve with a refi.

Barbara Corcoran

By 2020, 50 percent of imports should be reduced, which should become 75 percent by 2025. By 2030, India should be energy independent.

Veerappa Moily

When I got to the reading all the work, I was reduced to being an actor in an experimental play that I'd already written. And I didn't want to be an actor.

David Antin

It has always been preferable to attribute a woman's success to her beauty rather to her brains, to reduce her to the sum of her sex life.

Cleopatra: A Life

Pero si la elección que tengo que tomar, se reduce a elegir entre tú o yo, te escojo a ti. Siempre te he escogido.

Finale

When time is reduced to linear progress, it is emptied of presence.

Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom

A blanket could be used to reduce the weight of love, by exactly one person. It’s a cold world out there.  

Blanket

Might have, could have, may have, should have—the haves and have nots reduced to pointless possibilities.

The Black Unicorn

Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum.

Thomas Szasz

This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half.

Animal Farm

It was one of those moments that no scientist can ever reduce to numbers, try as she might.

Juliet

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

Letter to My Daughter

in this case, a mother, noted for her beauty, might be reduced to a purple shadow... (Tansley to Lily on her painting of the house & grounds)

To the Lighthouse

Knowing how things work reduces the effort. This is the fundamental principle of technology.

My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

Writing isn't a source of pain. It's psychic chemotherapy. It reduces your psychological tumors and relieves your pain.

Odd Thomas

If our nation wants to reduce global warming, air pollution and energy instability, we should invest only in the best energy options. Nuclear energy isn't one of them.

Mark Z. Jacobson

If my impressions are correct, our educational planing mill cuts down all the knots of genius, and reduces the best of the men who go through it to much the same standard.

Simon Newcomb