#affect

On some level, now, we are joining the larger world and realizing that we are connected with people in these very scary ways, sometimes. What happened recently in Spain affects us here and brings questions up. It is too bad that people have to be shaken up in that way. ↗

— Edwidge Danticat

#bad #brings #connected #happened #here

I did not think that I was angry, but clearly anger was reflected in my writing. I did not think that I had been affected emotionally, but it was clear from my writing that I was still very emotional about the trial some six months after it ended. ↗

— Christopher Darden

#affected #after #anger #angry #been

Human societies vary in lots of independent factors affecting their openness to innovation. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#factors #human #human societies #independent #innovation

Patriarchy is like the elephant in the room that we don't talk about, but how could it not affect the planet radically when it's the superstructure of human society. ↗

— Ani DiFranco

#affect #could #elephant #how #human

The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to ancient Egypt. Perhaps the use of this particular convention is due to the fact that, being stupid, affectionate, gregarious, and easily stampeded, the societies formed by sheep are most like human ones. ↗

— Northrop Frye

#ancient #back #being #convention #due

The trouble is it's very difficult to pin-point the most important thing because Aids affects everyone in different levels of society, differently and you have to respond to it differently. ↗

— Emma Thompson

#aids #because #different #different levels #differently

The conqueror is regarded with awe; the wise man commands our respect; but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection. ↗

— William Dean Howells

#awe #benevolent #commands #conqueror #man

Having decisions made not in midnight deals but in the light of objective evidence and after consulting those who will be affected should itself provide some reassurance that the EU is trying to reform itself. ↗

— John Hutton

#after #consulting #deals #decisions #eu

I don't think he's permanently affected me except in the sense that I miss him. I miss being him. Or trying to be him. He is one of a gallery of characters that have had an impact on my career and therefore my life. ↗

— Derek Jacobi

#being #career #characters #except #gallery

Affection reproaches, but does not denounce. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#denounce #does #reproaches