The supreme crime of the church to-day is that everywhere and in all its operations and influences it is on the side… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
Books have always a secret influence on the understanding; we cannot at pleasure obliterate ideas; he that reads books of science, thogh… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Afro-Caribbean influences are in me as a creative being the same way Spanish influences were in Picasso's work. I think the notion… — Garth Fagan Copy Share Image
I never liked the Hierarchy of the Church-an equality in the teacher of Religion, and a dependence on the people, are republican… — Rufus King Copy Share Image
If we cannot by reason, by influence, by example, by strenuous effort, and by personal sacrifice, mend the bad places of civilization,… — Auberon Herbert Copy Share Image
The FOMC has considerable control over short-term interest rates. We have much less influence over long-term rates, which are set in the… — Jerome Powell Copy Share Image
It is wrong and dangerous to extol freedom by telling people that they will certainly be all right once they are free.… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
In our age, when technology is gaining control over life, when material well-being is considered the most important goal, when the influence… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
My father is my biggest literary influence. Recently, I've been looking through his letters. He was in the National Guard when I… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
Filipinos are not a reading people, and despite the compulsory course on the life and works of Rizal today, from the elementary… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As piety, religion and morality have a happy influence on the minds of men, in their public as well as private transactions,… — Samuel 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
You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Life and the environment are one thing, not two, and people, as all life, are immersed in the one system. When we… — Daniel Botkin Copy Share Image
I think I'm more influenced, just in general, not by blues artists, but more by stuff from Curtis Mayfield, Stevie Wonder. Stevie… — Jonny Lang Copy Share Image
I love traveling. It not only opens my mind up, but it also allows me to use my fame in another way… — Chris Tucker Copy Share Image
Christians who have influence in political life must feel as individuals responsibility in front of their own faith. And the duty of… — Karl Lehmann Copy Share Image
The president has very little effect on the economy. If you want to put blame or credit, the main person who influences… — Robert Fogel Copy Share Image
Leadership is influence. It is the ability to obtain followers. When the leader lacks confidence, the followers have no commitment. A leader… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
I do not permit affection, or lack thereof, to influence my actions. There is good, and there is evil. The good must… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
You come out of doing that kind of side of electronic music, you're gonna take that knowledge with you and not ignore… — Jez Williams Copy Share Image
Although Christianity has never been the guarantee of a democratic state anywhere in the world, no democracy has ever thrived successfully for… — Theodore White Copy Share Image
Did people think I sounded black? Totally, but that was a marketing tool as well, but also this is how I grew… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Men of authority and influence may promote good morals. Let them in their several stations encourage virtue. Let them favor and take… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
We believe a scientist because he can substantiate his remarks, not because he is eloquent and forcible in his enunciation. In fact,… — I. A. Richards Copy Share Image
Honest hearts produce honest actions. The more tranquil and humble you become, the greater your success, your influence, and your power for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Foreigners cannot bring freedom, cannot bring democracy, because this is related to the culture, to the different factors that affect or influence… — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
I could be worried about it if I had the wrong attitude. I don't think that I want my life and my… — Justin Vernon Copy Share Image
Love doesn't mean finding someone who makes you like to be with them, love means finding someone who makes you like who… — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
Music is powerful, it can change your mood, the way you feel, and change your heart. Be careful what music you allow… — Ash Sweeney Copy Share Image
As far as my New York influence, one thing I'm proud of in my career is, I rep Brooklyn, New York all… — Talib Kweli Copy Share Image
Religion united its influence with those of loyalty and love, and the order of knighthood, endowed with all the sanctity and religious… — Thomas Bulfinch Copy Share Image
Fear is the opposite of everything you are, and so has an effect of opposition to your mental and physical health. Fear… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Jekyll is quite close to me, a little bit more shy. Whereas Hyde is a mish-mash of lots of things. I didn't… — Tom Bateman Copy Share Image
“Influence can be defined as earning the right to be heard so that others are moved toward their best. Like Salt shaken… — Pam Farrel Copy Share Image
The painter paints, the musician makes music, the novelist writes novels. But I believe that we all have some influence, not because… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
