There is no greater good in all the world than motherhood. The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation.
Influence Quotes
The roots of my fashion are very classic. People judge me avant-garde, people judge me rock and roll, and I am smiling. I am the most classically influenced of the Italian designers.
I just read this great science fiction story. It’s about how machines take control of humans and turn them into zombie slaves!… Hey! What time is it? My TV show is on! (“Calvin and Hobbes”)
The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.
Do not be influenced by the importance of the writer, and whether his learning be great or small, but let the love of pure truth draw you to read. Do not inquire, “Who said this?” but pay attention to what is said.
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence in society.
We are working for the future. We are not concerned with the seeming victory of the moment but with the final triumph. With us the question is not what influence we can exert now but what power we can exercise 50 years hence, not how few men we have today but how many will arise […]
Churches do not stand for moral influence. Not a Christian minister preaches salvation by good behavior. What a poor business Roman Catholicism would do among men if it advertised to save only those who were temperate, upright, intelligent and moral.
The wish to spread those opinions that we hold conducive to our own welfare is so deeply rooted in the English character that few of us can escape its influence.
The very man who has argued you down, will sometimes be found, years later, to have been influenced by what you said.
