Corruptive Influence Quotes & Sayings

Americans have been conditioned to respect newness, whatever it costs them. — John Updike

I secured a doughnut and coffee. I checked with Karrin and Valmont. Neither wanted to save the doughnuts from Nicodemus's corruptive influence. Not everyone can be a crusader like me. — Jim Butcher

That as long as I kept them apart, love would be sexless and sex loveless, endlessly repeating its cycle of self-denial and self-abuse. — Paul Monette

That's why we like fish in aquariums; they remind us of ourselves, well fed but incapable of moving beyond the glass walls. — Paulo Coelho

You might be a rock and roll addict prancing on the stage. You might have drugs at your command, women in a cage. — Bob Dylan

Road racing imitates life, the way it would be without the corruptive influence of civilization. When you see an enemy lying on the ground, what's your first reaction? To help him to his feet. In road racing, you kick him to death — Tim Krabbe

Perhaps if I'd arrived donned in a pair of trousers, with my hair in a tangled mess - a style you apparently prefer - you'd have shown me the courtesy of granting an interview before sending me away. — Karen Witemeyer

His past was fairly blameless; few men could read the rolls of their life with less apprehension; yet he was humbled to the dust by the many ill things he had done, and raised up again into sober and fearful gratitude by the many he had come so near to doing, yet avoided. — Robert Louis Stevenson