Those influences which really make and mar human happiness and greatness are beyond the reach of the law. The law can keep… — Walter Rauschenbusch Copy Share Image
The reverence for the deeds of our ancestors is a treacherous sentiment. Their merit was not to reverence the old, but to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Byron owed the vast influence which he exercised over his contemporaries at least as much to his gloomy egotism as to the… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
All behavior involves conscious or unconscious selection of particular actions out of all those which are physically possible to the actor and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All things are subjective, a person's circumstances has nothing to do with current or past events, but rather their perception of those… — Karla Thornton Copy Share Image
John Faulkner's As I Lay Dying is very important to me as an influence. When I didn't know how to start Mr.… — Samantha Hunt Copy Share Image
The increasing influence of the Bible is marvelously great, penetrating everywhere. It carries with it a tremendous power of freedom and justice… — Thomas More Copy Share Image
A lot of things have happened that I wish I could have just walked away from. But you wind up saying, 'This… — Chris Mullin Copy Share Image
Although I am even now still a layman in the area of mathematics, and although I lack theoretical knowledge, the mathematicians, and… — M. C. Escher Copy Share Image
News about the Russia connections to the [Donald Trump] administration and what we are continuing to learn about those connections. What's getting… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
The way you talk about yourself and your life-your story-has a great deal to do with what shows up in your day-to-day… — David Emerald Womeldorff Copy Share Image
The basic idea of Western science is that you don't have to take into account the falling of a leaf on some… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
If he [the Artist] were to take up the pen it would be...to better express his individuality and explain it to others;… — Witold Gombrowicz Copy Share Image
I listen to all those kinds of music, from classic soul to hip-hop to Brazilian music to, you know, jazz to indie… — John Legend Copy Share Image
Surely nothing is more reproachful to a being endowed with reason, than to resign its powers to the influence of the air,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I don't want to predict calamity. But I am afraid of a new Russian occupation of parts of Eastern Europe. Also of… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
A realized one sends out waves of spiritual influence in his aura, which draw many people towards him. Yet he may sit… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
In a properly automated and educated world, then, machines may prove to be the true humanizing influence. It may be that machines… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The drive to want to know is innate in people. You cannot influence this. I think in contrast it is harmful if… — Christiane Nusslein-Volhard Copy Share Image
Issues of life, circumstances, people and problems might challenge our belief system, but no force on earth... can take away from us...… — Senora Roy Copy Share Image
Instead of debating whether or not Russia attempted to influence the 2016 elections - in ways that ranged from encouraging incorrect voting… — Will Hurd Copy Share Image
There's just so much negative media surrounding professional athletes or sports in general, whether it's kids that are pressured too much or… — Kristopher Belman Copy Share Image
The artificial products do not have any molecular dissymmetry; and I could not indicate the existence of a more profound separation between… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
Show enough backstory to allow the reader to glean and make assumptions about what remains behind the curtain of time, yet continues… — Larry Brooks Copy Share Image
In addition to their power over government based on government financing and personal influence, bankers could steer governments in ways they wished… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
Too often we forget how powerful we are as individuals to shape how other people see the world. Each one of us… — Michelle Gielan Copy Share Image
I think that The Great Gatsby has had some influence on contemporary dressing. I'm seeing more boyish haircuts and drop-waist sheath dresses. — Ruth E. Carter Copy Share Image
I've always loved science fiction, fantasy, manga, comic books; so I guess, to some degree, those things influence my personal idea of… — Jane Goldman Copy Share Image
When others are not doing what we would like them to or are threatening disobedience, we are most conscious of the need… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
“Possession is not only when the devil plays hide and seek in your brain or poison your medula oblongata with negativity, but… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“92% of respondents reported that a positive recommendation from a friend, family member, or someone they trust is the biggest influence on… — Paul M Rand Copy Share Image
I find my zenith doth depend upon A most auspicious star, whose influence If now I court not, but omit, my fortunes… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
When you look at Harlem - and I lived there almost five years - most of the people who live in Harlem… — Mike Colter Copy Share Image
Language is one of the greatest gifts man has devised for himself. It ranks, alongside the discovery of fire and the wheel,… — Edward R. Murrow Copy Share Image
Doing your very best is the most rewarding game of achievement, your best is always going to make differences in any event… — Kemmy Nola Copy Share Image
There's a big time influence Hrishikesh Mukherjee has always had on my work. I can watch 'Anand,' 'Golmaal' or 'Chupke Chupke' as… — Rajkumar Hirani Copy Share Image
Influences come from everywhere. I don't really feel like I had too many influences for the first record because I grew up… — Avril Lavigne Copy Share Image
Be a pattern to others, and then all will go well; for as a whole city is affected by the licentious passions… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“Because a writer can't influence people, in the sense of making them think and feel and act as he does. He can… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Every struggle you had in your life shaped you into the person you are today. Be thankful for the hard times they… — Anmol Andore Copy Share Image