A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

-Adams, Henry Brooks
  The Education of Henry  Adams, ch.20,'Failure'.

   She had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners.

-Alcott, Louisa May
  Little Women, pt.2, ch.34.

The British'Sphere of Influence'öthe cricket ball.

-Anonymous
Mr Punch's Book of Sport.

Hebraism and Hellenismöbetween thesetwo points of influence moves our world.

-Arnold, Matthew
  Culture and  Anarchy, ch.4.

Film art has a greater influence on the minds of the general public than any other art.

-Balazs, Bela originally Hubert Bauer
  Theory of the Film: Character and Growth of a New Art (translated by Edith Bone).

It is beginning to dawn on people that the influence of a nation is not measured by the size of its military budget, but by its industrial strength.

-Benn,Tony (Anthony Neil Wedgwood)
  In The Independent,18  Apr.

We have to accept the verbal portraits, as indeed we have to accept paintings and sculptures, as well as photographs, of the immortals whose influence on our lives is often greater than that of our own family members.

-Church, Richard
In praise of biography. Quoted in Christian Science Monitor, 30  Apr1963.

The influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished.

-Dunning,John
  Motion passed by the House of Commons.

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for thedisastrousrise of misplaced powers exists and will persist. 302

-Eisenhower, Dwight D(avid)
  Farewell address to the nation,17  Jan.

In the seventeenth century a dissociation of sensibility set in from which we have never recovered; and this dissociation, as isnatural, was dueto the influence of the two most powerful poets of the century, Milton and Dryden.

-Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)
Selected Essays (1932),'The Metaphysical Poets'.

I would suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.

-Forster, E(dward) M(organ)
Two Cheers for Democracy,'Books That Influenced Me'.

Labour once spent has no influence on the future value of any article; it isgone and lost for ever. In commerce bygones are forever bygones; and we are alwaysstarting clearat each moment, judging the values of things with a view to future utility.

-Jevons,William Stanley
The Theory of Political Economy.

In order to imbue civilization with sound principles and enliven it with the spirit of the gospel, it is not enough to be illumined with the gift of faith and enkindled with the desire of forwarding a good cause. For this end it is necessary to take an active part in the various organizationsand influencethemfromwithin. And since our present age is one of outstanding scientific and technical progress and excellence, one will not be able to enter these organizations and work effectively from within unless he is scientifically competent, technically capableand skilled in the practice of his own profession.

-PopeJohn XXIII originally Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli
  Pacem in Terris,10  Apr.

Ingeneral, therefore, color isa means ofexerting a direct influenceuponthesoul.Coloristhekeyboard.The eyeis the hammer. The soul is the piano, with its many strings.

-Kandinsky,Wassily
Quoted in K C Lindsay and P  Vergo (eds and trans) Kandinsky: Complete Writings on  Art (1982).

Towered cities pleased us then, And the busy hum of men, Where throngs of knights and barons bold In weeds of peace high triumphs hold, With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit or arms, while both contend To win her grace, whom all commend.

-Milton,John
c.1631 L'Allegro, l.117^24.

Future historians will surely see us as having created in the media a Frankenstein monster whom no one knows how to control ordirect, and marvelthat weshould have so meekly subjected ourselves to its destructive and often malign influence.

-Muggeridge, Malcolm
  Christ and the Media,'Lecture1'.

Information, freefrominterestorprejudice, freefromthe vanity of the writer or the influence of a Government, is as necessary to the human mind as pure air and water to the human body.

-Rees-Mogg,William Rees-Mogg, Baron
  Christian Science Monitor, 22 Sep.

Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futuritycastsuponthepresent; thewordswhichexpress what they understand not; the trumpets which sing to battle, and feel not what they inspire; the influence which is moved not, but moves. Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.

-Shelley, Percy Bysshe
A Defence of Poetry.

Ifell inloveöthat istheonlyexpression Icanthinkoföat once, and am still at the mercy of words, though sometimes now, knowing a little of their behaviour very well, I think I can influence them slightly and have even learned to beat them now and gain, which they appear to enjoy.

-Thomas, Dylan Marlais
  Letter to a student.

All along the line, physically, mentally, morally, alcohol is a weakening and deadening force, and it is worth a great deal to save women and girls from its influence.

-Webb, (Martha) Beatrice ne¤  e Potter
  Health ofWorking Girls, ch.10.