“Peer pressure must never be an influence on us. Nor should unjust rules or laws have any effect on us. What is… — Abbot George Burke (Swami Nirmalananda Giri Copy Share Image
To buy TV time and bypass the usual filters between the public and political figures, are very powerful devices that people can… — Alexander Stille Copy Share Image
“As anyone's ratio of trials to triumph grows to a complex, incalculable thing, so does their verve and valor become an immeasurable… — Connie Kerbs Copy Share Image
I mean, I am fully aware of my influence and my responsibility to society in general representing the gay community. But in… — K. D. Lang Copy Share Image
N.E.R.D. was also from - not too far from where I was from growing up. For a lot of people who make… — Kali Uchis Copy Share Image
Around the world, America's influence has declined while this president [Barack Obama] has destroyed our military, our allies no longer trust us,… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
You look at the likes of Cristiano Ronaldo or Messi, whether it's the boots they wear, the haircuts they have, and you… — Joey Barton Copy Share Image
It is manifestly vital to the success of the anti-slavery cause, that the authority and influence of proslavery, especially of slaveholding, ministers… — Gerrit Smith Copy Share Image
With the influences of evil that surround our children, can we even imagine sending them out in the morning without kneeling and… — Neil L. Andersen Copy Share Image
I'm still kind of a hapless character in my everyday life. But when it comes to the writing, my influences are very… — Nick Lowe Copy Share Image
I like how you can go back and watch David Lean and John Ford and see the influence that had on Steven… — Colin Trevorrow Copy Share Image
Somewhere along the line of development we discover what we really are and then make our real decision for which we are… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
To maintain the ascendancy of the Constitution over the lawmaking majority is the great and essential point on which the success of… — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
Well aware that the opinions and belief of men depend not on their own will, but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
You may twist the word freedom as long as you please, but at last it comes to quiet enjoyment of your own… — William Cobbett Copy Share Image
For decades, people right, left, and center complained that the presidency is too powerful. Trump's administration is shrinking the presidency. The president… — Ramesh Ponnuru Copy Share Image
There is, I suppose, no occupation in the world which has an influence on the efficiency and happiness of the members of… — Eleanor Rathbone Copy Share Image
Let us give up our work, our thoughts, our plans, ourselves, our lives, our loved ones, our influence, our all, right into… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
True as this is, it is also true that for one who won through there were many who gained nothing, and it… — Ralph Adams Cram Copy Share Image
I believe one of the best things about managing people is that we can influence lives in a positive way. That's basically… — Arsene Wenger Copy Share Image
The kirtana of Madhava has an almost magnetic influence. The mind and heart get totally attracted, then drawn into the inside world… — Sacinandana Swami Copy Share Image
At least on the domestic side of things that you're seeing, [Mike] Pence has that influence big time. But when it comes… — Chuck Todd Copy Share Image
Braggarts are insecure and need attention, and bragging often has the opposite effect on most people when you're trying to gain their… — Mark Goulston Copy Share Image
“Among other possibilities, money was invented to make it possible for a foolish man to control wise men; a weak man, strong… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Australian genre films were a lot of fun because they were legitimate genre movies. They were real genre films, and they dealt,… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
Growing up, as much as country was a big influence in my life, the Rolling Stones and the Beatles and Led Zeppelin… — Thomas Rhett Copy Share Image
The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea… — Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr Copy Share Image
Generally speaking, men are influenced by books which clarify their own thought, which express their own notions well, or which suggest to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Maybe, whatever influence we have, other songwriters or women or whatever can feel like they can have a place too, I guess.… — Amanda Shires Copy Share Image
We can't any longer have the conventional understanding of genetics which everybody peddles because it is increasingly obvious that epigenetics - actually… — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
When a large number of organs of the press come to advance along the same track, their influence becomes almost irresistible in… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
The authority of a life for Christ always has greater influence than the authority of talking. A young person can possess all… — Mike Yaconelli Copy Share Image
I consider it important, indeed urgently necessary, for intellectual workers to get together, both to protect their own economic status and, also,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
There's not one major greatest influence on my career. It would be film and great artists and great imagineers - Jim Henson,… — Zac Posen Copy Share Image
Certain unique books seem to be without forerunners or successors as far as their authors are concerned. Even though they may profoundly… — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
Once the storm is over, you won't remember how you made it through and how you managed to survive. You won't even… — Bernajoy Vaal Copy Share Image
A lot of people give in to those pressures and let others influence the process on their second albums because they want… — Vanessa Carlton Copy Share Image
I can't tell you how important it is for people on the public stage to utilize that stage in a constructive, positive… — Steve Largent Copy Share Image
... even I am growing accustomed to slavery; so much so that I cease to think of its accursed influence and calmly… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
Basically my influences have been American influences. It's been blues, gospel, swing era music, bebop music, Broadway show music, classical music. — Horace Silver Copy Share Image