"I am easily influenced. Compared with me a weather vane is Gibraltar."

-- Franklin P. Adams

#Weather Quotes #Influence Quotes #Easily Influenced Quotes

“You will, I am sure, agree with me that... if page 534 only finds us in the second chapter, the length of the first one must have been really intolerable.”
“Find peace in where and what you are.”

Source : Christopher Paolini (2005). “Eragon”, Knopf Books for Young Readers
“You mellow too much you ripen and rot.”
“Poetry is what is gained in translation.”

Source : "Raw Material by Derek Mahon - review" by Aingeal Clare, www.theguardian.com. February 3, 2012.
“The city might be savage, stray dogs might share the streets with grimy urchins whose blank eyes reflected the knowledge that they might soon be covered over, blinded forever, by the same two pennies just begged from some gentleman, and no one in the fuming, fulminous boulevards of trade might know who actually ran Ambergris-or, if anyone ran it at all, but, like a renegade clock, it ran on and wound itself heedless, empowered by the insane weight of its own inertia, the weight of its own citizenry.”
“What I worry about is climate change, because that would have untold effects that we can't even measure yet.”
“In reality there is nothing to fear in the present. Fear is projected onto the present by memory.”
“This is the first, wildest, and wisest thing I know, that the soul exists, and that it is built entirely out of attention.”

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