#influence

The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born. ↗

— Dean Inge

#before #born #character #child #hundred

I can't think of an instance at MSNBC where anything I said on the air was influenced by what was going on behind the scenes. ↗

— Keith Olbermann

#anything #behind #going #i #influenced

I like to believe that everyone is born with the same skill set, and that it is the influences that one comes upon. ↗

— Ron Perlman

#born #comes #everyone #i #influences

English policy may not yet have made the definite decision to attack us; but it doubtless wishes, by all and every means, even the most extreme, to hinder every further expansion of German international influence and of German maritime power. ↗

— Bernhard von Bulow

#decision #definite #doubtless #english #even

I felt Joyce was an influence on my fiction, but in a very general way, as a kind of inspiration and a model for the beauty of language. ↗

— Don DeLillo

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That's the trouble with trying to influence an undecided voter. First you have to find one. ↗

— Pat Sajak

#first #influence #trouble #trying #undecided

I herewith commission you to carry out all preparations with regard to... a total solution of the Jewish question in those territories of Europe which are under German influence. ↗

— Hermann Goering

#commission #europe #german #i #influence

It is no exaggeration to say that the English Bible is, next to Shakespeare, the greatest work in English literature, and that it will have much more influence than even Shakespeare upon the written and spoken language of the English race. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

#english #english literature #even #exaggeration #greatest

When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist. ↗

— Akhenaton

#beautiful #beautiful woman #brighter #charms #enlighten

Every person's true identity is beautiful, and much of the ugliness we observe in others was put inside of them by external influences. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#personal-identity #prejudices #beauty