Quotes About Influence

Man is now in charge of the thermostat for the globe.

We have a whole generation of men who don't understand how much they mean to their kids.

The only thing that a man may do that is new, is to write himself on human hearts.

If you want to civilize a man, begin with his grandmother.

If you would civilize a man, begin with his grandmother.

Catfish Hunter was a man among men. He was a genuine person. There was nothing phony about him. I learned a lot from him, both on and off the baseball field.

A man is known by the company he owns.

The average person's idea of a great man, rather than one who serves, is of one who succeeds in getting himself served.

Little men build up great ones, but the snow colossus soon melts; the good stand under the eye of God, and therefore stand.

Many laws as certainly make men bad, as bad men make many laws.

When men in relationships have more money, we say they have the power. When women in relationships have more money, we say they are being used.

All think what other people think; All know the man their neighbor knows. Lord, what would they say Did their Catullus walk that way?

Say what men may, it is doctrine that moves the world. He who takes no position will not sway the human intellect.

The harm which is done by credulity in a man is not confined to the fostering of a credulous character in others, and consequent support of false beliefs.

There is no man that can teach us to be gentlemen better than Joseph Addison.

Let me have men about me that are fat... Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look. He thinks too much: such men are dangerous.

I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men.

One book that has influenced the writer very strongly is Winwood Reade's Martyrdom of Man...It is still an extraordinarily inspiring presentation of human history as one consistent process.

When a man keeps beating me to the draw mentally, he begins to get glamorous.

The majority of great men are the offspring of unhappy marriages.

Great men help dazzle the people; after that, they dazzle themselves even more dangerously.

Great men, like nature, use simple language.

Great men stamp their mind upon their age and nation.

By the '40s, Sam Goldwyn is a very serious man. By the '50s, he's the dean of American producers. To the end, he was Hollywood's gray eminence.