Quotes About Influence

External circumstances do not create feeling states. Feeling states create external circumstances.

Hate is more toxic than any chemical. It poisons from the inside out. And it's a fast-acting poison; before you know it you're filled with it, and the hate is in charge. You can't control it anymore.

Some of our best living is done through the people we leave behind.

Of all the forces, love is the strongest...Love can make a woman pick up a bus, or it can crush a man under the weight of a feather. Or it just lets everything go on as it was yesterday and will be tomorrow. That's the kind of force love is.

This had seemed a safe choice, since to be against the Beatles (late-middle period) is to be against life.

I want to convey a mood, and what you are reading is a constituent of how you feel. In biographies they should always tell us that, routinely, in the margin: what they were reading. What

Love can make a woman pick up a bus, or it can crush a man under the weight of a feather. Or it just lets everything go on as it was yesterday and will be tomorrow. That's the kind of force love is.

Out of them all, Socrates is the hardest to deconstruct... Indeed, he may just be indeconstructible.

Another curious case is that of the word assassin, which you may use to describe a certain kind of politically motivated killer. The word derives from the historical case of a certain religious sect that used to murder people while under the influence of hashis. The word for someone who smokes hashish is hashashin.

jiggery pokery – which is the ancient nomadic term for doing things with words.

That's why I tell the children not to chew gum. First it's gum, then rock music, then marijuana and . . .

Great British painters, one might say, imitate the proverbial behaviour of buses. None come along for a century or more, then two at the same time. In the decades after 1800 there were J. M. W. Turner and John Constable, then none of international consequence, except perhaps Walter Sickert, until Bacon and Freud after the Second World War.

led Churchill to work with many disparate groups to try to influence public opinion towards the need for greater vigilance in defence of democracy, faith in the moral tenets of the anti-totalitarian cause, the closest possible Anglo-French cooperation and a willingness to take up arms, if necessary, in order to ensure the survival of democratic civilization. Other

led Churchill to work with many disparate groups to try to influence public opinion towards the need for greater vigilance in defence of democracy, faith in the moral tenets of the anti-totalitarian cause

In the Fifth Century, Yemen adopted Judaism as its religion. King Ab Karib As'ad, the ruler of the Himyarite kingdom, introduced the change after converting to Judaism himself under the influence of Jews at his court. Many south Arabian converts to Judaism followed; Jewish rule in Yemen lasted almost a hundred years.

To be good is noble; to teach others how to be good is nobler, & no trouble.

A campanha pelo direito de voto das mulheres era, contudo, "um movimento ridículo". O voto para as mulheres devia ser evitado. "Uma vez que se conceda o voto a um grande número de mulheres, que constituem a maior parte da sociedade", advertiu ele, "todo o poder passará para as mãos delas".

Nietzsche hat mich kaputt gemacht.

Nietzsche did track down Platonism in its most covert form: Christianity and its secularizations are thoroughly Platonism for the people.

Der Mensch gebärdet sich, als sei er Bildner und Meister der Sprache, während doch sie die Herrin des Menschen bleibt.

What affects one in a major way, affects all in a minor way.

Almost always the creative, dedicated minority has made the world better.

We are not makers of history. We are made by history.

Christ furnished the spirit and motivation while Gandhi furnished the method.