Nothing on earth in fiction is less interesting than characters under the influence of alcohol. — John L'Heureux Copy Share Image
Leadership requires using power to influence the thoughts and actions of other people. — Abraham Zaleznik Copy Share Image
China has been developing, growing in economic strength and its influence in the region. That will continue. — Lee Hsien Loong Copy Share Image
Nothing in the world makes people so afraid as the influence of independent-minded people. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I think there's too much of the wrong type of influences that stem from hip-hop. — Vince Staples Copy Share Image
I knew how to influence the people, but it's really just one vote. But the party is being handled in a very… — Huey Newton Copy Share Image
Literary influences are harder for me to point to, because mostly it's a mulch of all of my past reading. — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
If you want to make the world a better place, take a look at yourself and make the change. — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
Hard power makes sense under some circumstances. But there's not a universal solution to global problems. A major country like the United… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
The only kind of influence I want to be on anyone is by being, constantly and consistently, someone who probes herself at… — Parvathy Copy Share Image
Having realized that you cannot influence the results, pay no attention to your desires and fears. Let them come and go. Don't… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
When I started out in the early 1970s French cooking was really my only serious influence. For the first 10 years of… — Rick Stein Copy Share Image
There are certain events which to each man's life are as comets to the earth, seemingly strange and erratic portents; distinct from… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
As the president's principal intelligence advisor, I would ensure that all intelligence is collected analyzed and reported without bias, prejudice or political… — John Ratcliffe Copy Share Image
The mental never influences the physical. It is always the physical that modifies the mental, and when we think that the mind… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
Religious and spiritual leaders should be held accountable for environmental activism, not only because they have access to large communities and can… — Radhanath Swami Copy Share Image
No man, however enslaved to his appetites, or hurried by his passions, can, while he preserves his intellects unimpaired, please himself with… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
What deep and worthy love is so, whether of woman or child, or art or music. Our caresses, our tender words, our… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Everyone wants to be foremost in this future-and yet death and the stillness of death are the only things certain and common… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There is no strong evidence to prove significant human influence on climate on a global basis. The global cooling trend from 1940… — Peter Stilbs Copy Share Image
And even if these scenes from our youth were given back to us we would hardly know what to do. The tender,… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
Barna is correct when he writes, "After fifteen years of diligent digging into the world around me, I have reached several conclusions… — Ed Stetzer Copy Share Image
First of all, there are Persians and Arabs. The fact they share a religion, a Shiite religion, does not mean that they're… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
After 20 years of writing in basically a vacuum, I love being part of a community. I've vetted other writers' contracts for… — Jonathan Evison Copy Share Image
