Quotes about Influence

Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience.

He who marries the spirit of the age soon becomes a widower.

Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

Complaining begets more complaints. Anger begets more anger. And optimism begets more optimism.

There should be no relenting in our efforts to influence politics and politicians. But in the name of honesty and sanity we must recognize the limits of politics.

But if nobody can ever quite be nothing to you in Port William, then everybody finally has got to be something to you.

And yet for a long time, looking back, I have been unable to shake off the feeling that I have been led—make of that what you will.

As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people. But I will be damned if I propose to be at the beck and call of every itinerant scoundrel who has two cents to invest in a postage stamp. This, sir, is my resignation.

All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born.

people seemed to hold that the one sole end of the entire establishment of public office was to elect one man like Sheriff Hampton big enough or at least with sense and character enough to run the county and then fill the rest of the jobs with cousins and inlaws who had failed to make a living at everything else they ever tried.

There's nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.

In the Louvre there is a picture, by Guido Reni, of St. Michael with his foot on Satan's neck. The richness of the picture is in large part due to the fiend's figure being there. The richness of its allegorical meaning also is due to his being there—that is, the world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.