Quotes About Influence

I was once a skeptic but was converted by the two missionaries on either side of my nose.

I wish to die knowing that I took a fleeting instant of eternity and fashioned from it a lifetime.

[T]he devil... seldom leads people astray anymore, finding it easier to just follow along in their footsteps.

It is one thing to show your child the way, and a harder thing to then stand out of it.

An image must be transformed by contact with other images as is a colour by contact with other colours. A blue is not the same blue beside a green, a yellow, a red. No art without transformation.

One recognizes the true by its efficacy, by its power.

When you die, your culture takes you in, and then, if you've given enough, your place is near the centre.

We that had loved him so, followed him, honored him,Lived in his mild and magnificent eye,Learned his great language, caught his clear accents,Made him our pattern to live and to die!

Shakespeare was of us, Milton was for us,Burns, Shelley, were with us—they watch from their graves!

A man in armor is his armor's slave.

You can take us out of Arcadia, but you cannot take Arcadia out of us." Nicholas D. Kokonis, psychologist and author of Arcadia, My Arcadia and Out of Arcadia: The American Odyssey of Angelo Vlahos

To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.

When they are at Rome, they do there as they see done.

Hinc quam sic calamus saevior ense, patet. The pen worse than the sword.

Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him in particular, all his life long.

Why doth one man's yawning make another yawn?

We can say nothing but what hath been said. Our poets steal from Homer…. Our story-dressers do as much; he that comes last is commonly best.

Hence it is clear how much more cruel the pen is than the sword.

Hence it is clear how much more cruel the pen is than the sword. (Hinc Gham Sit Calmus Saevior Ense Patet)

Wine is strong, the king is strong, women are strong, but truth overcometh all things.

I light my candle from their torches.

It is an old saying, "A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword"; and many men are as much galled with a calumny, a scurrile and bitter jest, a libel, a pasquil, satire, apologue, epigram, stage-plays, or the like, as with any misfortune whatsoever.

It is money, money, money! Not ideas, not principles, but money that reigns supreme in American politics.

[W]hen I hear or read a good line I can hardly wait to tell it to somebody else...