It's true, some senior Hungarian writers are not known for their laughter. There is a strong Germanic influence - an attitude that… — Tibor Fischer Copy Share Image
The great and invigorating influences in American life have been the unorthodox: the people who challenge an existing institution or way of… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
. . . in seclusion, she had secluded herself from a thousand natural and healing influences; that, her mind, brooding solitary, had… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Politics means striving to share power or striving to influence the distribution of power, either among states or among groups within a… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
It is mother's influence during the crucial formative years that forms a child's basic character. Home is the place where a child… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
I have a lot of influences. I'm American-schooled. I'm classically trained. I'm a pretty universal student, if you will. I have a… — Emeril Lagasse Copy Share Image
Today, because photography exercises such a profound influence upon the study of art, we tend to disregard the way in which prints… — Edward Lucie-Smith Copy Share Image
“People live in different worlds. There's a rich world, there's a poor world, and there's an extremely poor. The one you dwell… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
It is hard to see how a great man can be an atheist. Without the sustaining influence of faith in a divine… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
We are rare and precious because we are alive, because we can think as well as we can. We are privileged to… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I'm not attracted to naturalism, I'm not attracted to behavior, I'm attracted to dance. I'm attracted to gesture, I'm attracted to singing… — Willem Dafoe Copy Share Image
What are works of art for? to educate, to be standards. To produce is of little use unless what we produce is… — Gerard Manley Hopkins Copy Share Image
When a thought of Plato becomes a thought to me,--when a truth that fired the soul of Pindar fires mine, time is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Woman, I hold, is the personification of self-sacrifice, but unfortunately today she does not realize what a tremendous advantage she has over… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I'm usually the last to see my influence in other people's work. People give me stuff and say "Oh look, this guy's… — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
These technologies can make life easier, can let us touch people we might not otherwise. You may have a child with a… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Perhaps there is no time in a summer's day more cheering, than when the warmth of the sun is just beginning to… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
We've never tried to make timeless music like, say, Bruce Springsteen. But we've come to realize that maybe we've had more of… — Russell Mael Copy Share Image
If it were in my power, I would be wiser; but a newly felt power carries me off in spite of myself;… — Ovid Copy Share Image
You don't have to be a 'person of influence' to be influential. In fact, the most influential people in my life are… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
As you help men to grow, as you work for peace, understanding and good will, your influence will merge, with the good… — Wilferd Peterson Copy Share Image
Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The effectiveness of leadership is measured in terms of influence. When you see someone's influence reflected so profoundly in the lives of… — John Macarthur Copy Share Image
What a large number of factors constitute a single human being! How very many layers we operate on, and how very many… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
What kind of influence do you want to have? What kind of effect do you want to have on other people? Never… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
Our problem today is, the society in which we live in suffer from realising that we underestimate our own brain power and… — Heleina Cowan Copy Share Image
My grandmother had great influence on me. She was secretary of state in the 1970's, and that's when I was born. She… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Today religion is increasingly pushed aside by secularizing influences such as the university, the media, and politics. Rather than having a major… — Paul Copan Copy Share Image
I think the biggest influence for me is when I hear a great piece of music, whatever the style, I'm kind of… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
I don't believe in the meteoric culture of anxiety, generally. Obviously, some people have it, some people are crippled by it, but… — Andrew O'Hagan Copy Share Image
Roberto Calasso's survey of the renewed interest in myth demonstrates how decisive the gods' influence was on modern literature. Calasso is not… — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
“One person, one single event can alter the course of so many lives. We are all connected on a long thread; even… — Juliet Valcourt Copy Share Image
The power of a gun can kill and the power of fire can burn. The power of wind can chill and the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The white man is not inherently evil, but America's racist society influences him to act evilly. The society has produced and nourishes… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Be the positive you want to see in the world. Lead by example. You can't always save the world, but you can… — Rashida Rowe Copy Share Image
I love stories about teachers. For some reason I can't get enough of those kind of stories. If I turn a movie… — Jim Carrey Copy Share Image
Tho' there be no such Thing as Chance in the World; our Ignorance of the real Ccause of any Event has the… — David Hume Copy Share Image
When I was 17, I taught music; I had 65 students a week, and I did that for a year. So that's… — Matt Schulze Copy Share Image
The improvements of ages have had but little influence on the essential laws of man's existence: as our skeletons, probably, are not… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Beauty is a dangerous property, tending to corrupt the mind of the wife, though it soon loses its influence over the husband.… — Henry Home, Lord Kames Copy Share Image
