#nfl

Dreams have as much influence as actions. ↗

— Stephane Mallarme

#dreams #influence #much

If you're writing an opinion piece, it's your job to write your opinion. If, on the other hand, you wrote a novel, as Virginia Woolf tells us, it would be inappropriate if you let your novel be influenced by your political opinions. ↗

— David Mamet

#inappropriate #influenced #job #novel #opinion

I have been influenced in my thinking by both west and east. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#both #east #i #influenced #thinking

They want to derail peace because they want to plunge Northern Ireland back into armed conflict. ↗

— Peter Mandelson

#back #because #conflict #derail #into

You don't have any communication between the Israelis and the Iranians. You have all sorts of local triggers for conflict. Having countries act on a hair trigger - where they can't afford to be second to strike - the potential for a miscalculation or a nuclear war through inadvertence is simply too high. ↗

— Dennis Ross

#afford #any #between #communication #conflict

The influential man is the successful man, whether he be rich or poor. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

#man #poor #rich #successful #successful man

In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent. ↗

— Don Marquis

#careful #child #grandparent #influence #must

And very often the influence exerted on a person's character by the amount of his income is hardly less, if it is less, than that exerted by the way in which it is earned. ↗

— Alfred Marshall

#character #earned #exerted #hardly #his

Woman is also the element of conflict. ↗

— Marcello Mastroianni

#conflict #element #woman

In the beginning you must subject yourself to the influence of nature. You must be able to walk firmly on the ground before you start walking on a tightrope. ↗

— Henri Matisse

#before #beginning #firmly #ground #in the beginning