#affected

I think you go through a period as a teenager of being quite cool and unaffected by things. ↗

— Miranda Otto

#being #cool #go #i #i think

Some men escape the grip. Maybe their wives have no social ambitions; maybe they've hit a sentence or two in a 'dangerous book' that pleased them; maybe they started on the treadmill as I did and were knocked off. Anyway, they're the congressmen you can't bribe, the Presidents who aren't politicians, the writers, speakers, scientists, statesmen who aren't just populate grab-bags for a half-dozen women and children. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#genuine #unaffected #men

It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#age #antiquity #censure #eminent #escaping

I don't know about Heaven or Hell, but I do know that we are visited all the time by the spirits of those who affected us in life. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#affected #heaven #hell #i #i do

Enthusiasms, like stimulants, are often affected by people with small mental ballast. ↗

— Minna Antrim

#ballast #enthusiasms #like #mental #often

Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being. ↗

— Jane Austen

#being #distinct #good-humoured #man #orders

It sounds really over the top to say you're responsible for the city of New York, but I do feel responsibility to the city of New York, to this country, to people everywhere. So many people were affected by the events of September 11, and I feel this is one of the ways that that event will be understood and defined. ↗

— Michael Arad

#city #country #defined #event #events

The crisis in Europe has affected the U.S. economy by acting as a drag on our exports, weighing on business and consumer confidence, and pressuring U.S. financial markets and institutions. ↗

— Ben Bernanke

#affected #business #confidence #consumer #consumer confidence

Well, the research into it affected me. And the novel, it very much strengthened my faith. ↗

— William Peter Blatty

#faith #into #me #much #novel

I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me. ↗

— Kurt Cobain

#case #childhood #classic #divorce #good