Refused/influences

Famous quotes containing the words refused and/or influences:

    If I have been the source of pain, O God;
    If to the weak I have refused my strength;
    If, in rebellion, I have strayed away;
    Forgive me, God.
    Janet W. May (20th century)

    Professors of literature, who for the most part are genteel but mediocre men, can make but a poor defense of their profession, and the professors of science, who are frequently men of great intelligence but of limited interests and education, feel a politely disguised contempt for it; and thus the study of one of the most pervasive and powerful influences on human life is traduced and neglected.
    Yvor Winters (1900–1968)