Quotes About Influence

You just try to kill their souls instead of their bodies. You just try to tell 'em, 'Look, be good. Behave yourselves. If you're good and mind us, you can get a lot out of life, but if you don't mind us, we will give you nothing and take away what we've already given you.

Fine a boy as he is, the trash won't wash out of him.

So it took an eight-year-old child to bring 'em to their senses, didn't it?" said Atticus. "That proves something —that a gang of wild animals can be stopped, simply because they're still human. Hmp, maybe we need a police force of children . . . you children last night made Walter Cunningham stand in my shoes for a minute. That was enough.

You are too young to understand it.-she said, -but sometimes the bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hand of--oh,of your faher.

People generally see what they look for and hear what they listen for, and they have a right to subject their children to it.

sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hand of oh, of your father

So far nothing in your life has interfered with your reasoning process. Those are twelve reasonable men in everyday life, Tom's jury, but you saw something come between them and reason. You saw the same thing that night in front of the jail. When that crew went away, they didn't go as reasonable men, they went because we were there. There's something in our world that makes men lose their heads—they couldn't be fair if they tried.

The course of English Literature would have been decidedly different had Mr. Wordsworth owned a power mower, she thought.

The bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hand of one man

Bazen bir adam?n elindeki ?ncil, baban?n elindeki viski ?i?esinden daha tehlikeli olabilir.

but she knew that her father's presence at the table with a man who spewed filth from his mouth—did that make it less filthy? No. it condoned.

Sometimes the bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hand of another.

We can influence the other person through our words and silence, but we can never control the outcome.

What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable than teaching? Harriet Martineau

It is amazing the things people will believe if you catch them early enough.

Dreams come from the past, not from the future. Dreams shouldn't control you--you should control them.

What we call the present is given shape by an accumulation of the past.

Genius or fool, you don't live in the world alone. You can hide underground or you can build a wall around yourself, but somebody's going to come along and screw up the works.

Does G get angry because it follows F in the alphabet? Does page 68 in a book start a revolution because it follows 67?

That's how people live in the real world: forcing stuff on each other.

I wonder how it turns out that we all lead such different lives. Take you and your sister, for example. You're born to the same parents, you grow up in the same household, you're both girls. How do you end up with such wildly different personalities?...One puts on a bikini like little semaphore flags and lies by the pool looking sexy, and the other puts on her school bathing suit and swims her heart out like a dolphin...

I spent thirty-three years in another man's shadow. I went everywhere he went, I helped him with everything he did. I was in a sense a part of him. When you live like that for a long time, you gradually lose track of what it is you yourself really want out of life

People want to be bowled over by something special. Nine times out of ten you can forget, but that tenth time, that peak experience, is what people want. That's what can move the world. That's art.

She was a keen observer, a precise user of language, sharp-tongued and funny. She could stir your emotions. Yes, really, that's what she was so good at - stirring people's emotions, moving you. And she knew she had this power...I only realized later. At the time, I had no idea what she was doing to me.