Quotes About Influence

Respect! I believe young people are quick enough to observe and imitate; and why or how should they respect whom no one else respects, and everybody slights?

My meaning is, that no man can expect his children to respect what he degrades.

Tan grande es la fuerza de la costumbre, y tan deseable que las costumbres desde el principio sean buenas.

I don't know how it is,' said Peggotty, 'unless it's on account of being stupid, but my head never can pick and choose its people. They come and they go, and they don't come and they don't go, just as they like. I wonder what's become of her?

he seemed a kind of cannon loaded to the muzzle with facts, and prepared to blow them clean out of the regions of childhood at one discharge.

It's in vain, Trot, to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present.

You do not know what all around you see in Esther Summerson, how many hearts she touches and awakens, what sacred admiration and what love she wins. --Mr. Woodcourt

Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day. Chapter Ten The felicitous idea occurred to me a morning or two later when I woke, that the best step I could take towards making myself uncommon was to get out of Biddy everything she knew.

throne of France. In both countries it was clearer than crystal to the lords of the State preserves of loaves and fishes, that things

Out of my thoughts!You are part of my existence,part of myself,you have been in every line I have ever read.

and my first decided experience of the stupendous power of money was, that it had morally laid upon his back Trabb's boy.

In short, the wily old Jew had the boy in his toils. Having prepared his mind, by solitude and gloom, to prefer any society to the companionship of his own sad thoughts in such a dreary place, he was now slowly instilling into his soul the poison which he hoped would blacken it, and change its hue for ever.

He's enough to turn the very beer in the casks sour with his looks; he is! So he would, if it had judgment enough.

large jaw and a queen with a plain face, on the throne of England; there were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a fair face, on the throne of France. In both countries it was clearer

Up, then, would come Mrs General; taking all the colour out of everything, as Nature and Art had taken it out of herself;

noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.

A senhora deve saber se sou ou não sou. Sou o que a senhora me fez. Se todos os méritos são seus, a culpa também é; se todos os sucessos são seus, os fracassos também são. Em uma palavra, eu sou isso.

He has the power to render us happy or unhappy, to make our service light or burdensome, a pleasure or a toil. Say that his power lies in words and looks, in things so slight and insignificant that it is impossible to add and count 'em up; what then? The happiness he gives is quite as great as if it cost a fortune.

great men are urged on to the abuse of power (when they need urging, which is not often), by their flatterers and dependents,

authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only. There were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a plain face, on the throne of England;

I wanted to make Joe less ignorant and common, that he might be worthier of my society and less open to Estella's reproach.

Once for all; I knew to my sorrow, often and often, if not always, that I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be. Once for all; I loved her none the less because I knew it, and it had no more influence in restraining me than if I had devoutly believed her to be human perfection.

the throne of France. In both countries it was clearer than crystal to the lords of the State preserves of loaves and fishes, that things in general were settled

To the last hour of my life, you cannot choose but remain part of my character, part of the little good in me, part of the evil.