Refused/influences

Famous quotes containing the words refused and/or influences:

“...he sent letters to all the royal provinces, to every province in its own script and to every people in its own language, declaring that every man should be master in his own house.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Esther 1:22.

King Ahasuerus, after his Queen Vashti refused to come at the king’s command.

“Nothing changes more constantly than the past; for the past that influences our lives does not consist of what actually happened, but of what men believe happened.”
—Gerald W. Johnson (1890–1980)