Quotes About Influence

The people in Roseto smoked, drank and ate fatty sausages, but they didn't have heart attacks, and this protective influence of a close-knit community on mortality is called the Roseto Effect.

1266What matters to the children's well-being isn't so much the level of the family's wealth as whether it is controlled by the mother or the father.

You are the bows from which your children As living arrows are sent forth. —KHALIL GIBRAN, Lebanese-American poet

Although he may not always recognize his bondage, modern man lives under a tyranny of numbers.

I am not gone but merely walk within you.

Where is the man who has the power and skill To stem the torrent of a woman's will?' Anonymous

Our deeds still travel with us from afar, And what we have been makes us what we are. GEORGE ELIOT, 1819—80

A writer can never have complete command or mastery over what s/he writes. Neither can a reader.

They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even when you don't know it

Only the devil wishes everyone to be his friend.

Never choose a man while under the influence of chemicals that mess with your brain, my friends. Never.

After the Saudi plutocrat Khalid bin Mahfouz used English law to attack books that American houses had not even published in England, President Obama signed a law that stated that the US courts should not enforce the orders of English judges against American authors.

Everything in our age conspires to turn the writer and every other kind of artist as well, into a minor official, working on themes handed down from above and never telling what seems to him the whole of the truth.

anonymous blogger can print a leaked document or run a denunciation of an abuse of power. But if the abuse is to be tackled, then the blogger or the people who have read his or her work must go out and campaign for change in public.

The celebrity and the totalitarian share a desire to have their faces in every newspaper and on every television screen.

Peer pressure is when you decide to lob a few warheads at this week's Nazi because CNN told you to.

Do something. Make a decision. If you don't, circumstances will decide for you. The enemy loves to tell you what to do.

It is a rule of life in the power elite that there is no such thing as a purely social act.

The purpose of collecting so much information can only be power.

You must remember this: You can never have a Christian mind without reading the Scriptures regularly because you cannot be profoundly influenced by that which you do not know.

People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands - literally thousands - of songs about broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery and loss.

What came first – the music or the misery? Did I listen to the music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to the music? Do all those records turn you into a melancholy person?

If you really wanted to mess me up, you should have got to me earlier.

I mean, what the fook could Gaz, Bez or me be like without someone like Tony exploiting us? We wouldn't 'ave jobs 'cos we can't do fookin' jobs. That's just a fookin' fact, right!