| "Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much." »Zora Neale Hurston |
| "His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof." »J. K. Rowling |
| "Don't reserve your best behavior for special occasions. You can't have two sets of manners, two social codes - one for those you admire and want to impress, another for those whom you consider unimportant. You must be the same to all people." »Lillian Eichler Watson |
| "...nobody has the right to manipulate anybody or to impress anybody with his stronger personality, not even for the other's imagined good, for nobody can know what that good is. This is courtesy rather than callousness, for the other's dignity is thus acknowledged, or the dignity of his grief is respected. If and when he is ready, the other will of himself reach out for consolation and feel free to ask for a hand to point out the way." »Imgard Schloegl |
| "If you can impress any man with an absorbing conviction of the supreme importance of some moral or religious doctrine if you can make him believe that those who reject that doctrine are doomed to eternal perdition if you then give that man power, and by means of his ignorance blind him to the ulterior consequences of his own act,-he will infallibly persecute those who deny his doctrine." »Henry Thomas Buckle |
| "There are authors who write to communicate, there are authors who write to impress themselves." »Mark S. Hertzog |
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