Quotes About Influence

It sometimes happens that a thought, either formulated to oneself or not formulated at all, works secretly on the mind and yet has but little direct influence over it.

El hecho consumado persuade más que todos los razonamientos; es por eso que no hay nada como la acción directa para arrancar conquistas.

Fashion exerts more power in science than it does on the shape of hats.

Water is indifferent in this way to the objects which fall into it. It does not weigh them; it is they which weigh themselves, after a certain time of oscillation.

Avec la grande presse et la T.S.F., on peut faire avaler par tout un peuple, en même temps que le petit déjeuner ou le repas du soir, des opinions toutes faites et par là même absurdes, car même des vues raisonnables se déforment et deviennent fausses dans l'esprit qui les reçoit sans réflexion ; mais on ne peut avec ces choses susciter même un éclair de pensée.

When a country has political parties, sooner or later it becomes impossible to intervene effectively in public affairs without joining a party and playing the game.

Whoever is uprooted himself uproots others. Whoever is not uprooted himself does not uproot others.

Christianity in China from 150 years prior to the time of its inscription, circa 780.

Just as he was an Elk, a Booster, and a member of the Chamber of Commerce, just as the priests of the Presbyterian Church determined his every religious belief and the senators who controlled the Republican Party decided in little smoky rooms in Washington what he should think about disarmament, tariff, and Germany, so did the large national advertisers fix the surface of his life, fix what he believed to be his individuality.

his secretary-press-agent-private-philosopher, Lee Sarason, yielded nothing to others'.

No one, even among the Washington correspondents, seemed to know precisely how much of a part in Senator Windrip's career was taken by his secretary, Lee Sarason. When Windrip had first seized power in his state, Sarason had been managing editor of the most widely circulated paper in all that part of the country. Sarason's genesis was and remained a mystery.

Main Street is the climax of civilization. That this Ford car might stand in front of the Bon Ton Store, Hannibal invaded Rome and Erasmus wrote in Oxford cloisters. What Ole Jenson the grocer says to Ezra Stowbody the banker is the new law for London, Prague, and the unprofitable isles of the sea; whatsoever Ezra does not know and sanction, that thing is heresy, worthless for knowing and wicked to consider.

She had so painfully reared three sons to be Christian gentlemen that one of them had become an Omaha bartender, one a professor of Greek, and one, Cyrus N. Bogart, a boy of fourteen who was still at home, the most brazen member of the toughest gang in Boytown.

He grinned and knee-patted and back-slapped; and few of his visitors, once they had talked with him, failed to look upon him as their Little Father and to support him forever. . .. The few who did fail, most of them newspapermen, disliked the smell of him more than before they had met him. . .. Even they, by the unusual spiritedness and color of their attacks upon him, kept his name alive in every column. . ..

Now you boys never mind about the moral side of this. We have power, and power is its own excuse!

Authors have the power to bore people long after we are dead. –

to whom we should be grateful for explaining to us what the ruling classes of the country really want.

I wonder if the small town isn't, with some lovely exceptions, a social appendix?

E posibil s? nu fii tu însuÈ›i o surs? de lumin?, dar eÈ™ti, cu siguran??, un conduc?tor al ei. Unii oameni, neavând geniu, au totuÈ™i puterea v?dit? de a-l stimula.

You yourself may not be luminous, but you are a conductor of light.

Some of you rich men have to be taught that all the world cannot be bribed into condoning your offences.","Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Women have seldom have been an attraction to me, for my brain has always governed my heart.

It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but you are a conductor of light.

Where there is great power, there is great responsibility.