Quotes About Influence

What usually has the strongest psychic effect on the child is the life which the parents . . . have not lived." Carl Jung

was her life as lived in fact her authentic journey, or was she driven by complexes so powerful as to render her incapable of choosing anything else?

Sometimes I think it's easier to stand up to the whole school -- or the whole world even -- than it is to stand up to one person, especially if that person really matters to you.

There were times when Prewitt felt a special quality in himself, a strange unpleasant quality that seemed to force everyone he touched into making drastic decisions about their own lives, no wonder people did not like to be around him.

The women ran this world; and nobody knew it better than a man in love.

I care not if I live but a day and a night, so long as my deeds live after me.

Gone too from the world, Averroes and Moses Maimonides

Usher's Island

The peace of the gardens and the kindly lights in the windows poured a tender influence into his restless heart.

England is in the hands of the jews. In all the highest places: her finance, her press. And they are the signs of a nation's decay. Wherever they gather they eat up the nation's vital strength. I have seen it coming these years. As sure as we are standing here the jew merchants are already at their work of destruction. Old England is dying.

Natural parents should bear in mind that the more supplementaries their children find, at school or elsewhere, the better they will know that it takes all sorts to make a world. Also, that though there is always the risk of being corrupted by bad parents, the natural ones may be – probably ten per cent of them actually are – the worst of the lot.

You don't know yet what money is. Money is power, when you have lived as long as I have. I know, I know. If youth but knew. But what does Shakespeare say? Put money in thy purse.

When all is said Dumas fils (or is it Dumas père?) is right. After God Shakespeare has created most.

You don't know yet what money is. Money is power, when you have lived as long as I have. I know, I know. If youth but knew. But what does Shakespeare say? Put but money in thy purse.

England is in the hands of the jews. In all the highest places: her finance, her press. And they are the signs of a nation's decay. Wherever they gather they eat up the nation's vital strength. I have seen it coming these years. As sure as we are standing here the jew merchants are already at their work of destruction. Old England is dying.

archgoose of geese

We need to keep domesticating religion. It's such an unpredictable beast.

Value-systems are controlled by the occupying force. Those who assimilate receive the reward: they pass.

young people...who were casually profane, as though the validation of their own power could be achieved only by their assault on the sensibilities of others.

I made her talk about her family, her home, her music, and her work, everything that defined who she was before Bobby Joe had touched her with his probing hands.

Cancer and lightning go where they want. So does political corruption.

What happens outside of us doesn't count. That's something we don't have control over. It's what we do with it, the way that we react to it, that's important.

Shakespeare said that all power lies in the world of dreams, and I believe him.

Why don't you try to make me feel bad?