{"quotes":[{"text":"The only people you have to look out for in life are the people that don't care about anything or anyone. These are the people that end up teaching your children.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["bad-influence","bad-teaching","bad-upbringing","bitter","broken-individuals","careless","close-minded","cruelty","equality","evil-acts","eye-for-an-eye","false-justice","game-players","games","hateful","heartless","immaturity","insecure","jealous","lack-of-empathy","lack-of-standards","lost-people","manipulative","not-caring","old-testament","role-models","ruthless","teachers","vengeful","well-intended"],"id":47426,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"Evil influence is like a nicotine patch, you cannot help but absorb what sticks to you.","author":"E.A. Bucchianeri","tags":["bad","bad-company","bad-influence","catholic","catholic-","christian","drugs","evil","evil-people","evil-thoughts","funny","gadfly","humor","humour","influence","influences","nicotine","sad-but-true","sticky-situations"],"id":101130,"author_id":"E.A.+Bucchianeri"},{"text":"Bad people often end up as heroes.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["bad","bad-influence","cheats","cunning","disadvantage","disaster","end","fame","famous","favouritism","hero","heroes","infamous","politicians","politics"],"id":104021,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"Just because something isn't a lie does not mean that it isn't deceptive. A liar knows that he is a liar, but one who speaks mere portions of truth in order to deceive is a craftsman of destruction.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["agenda","bad-influence","compulsive-liar","controlling","craftsman","deception","destruction","dishonest","influence","lies","manipulation","media","mislead","slander","speak","true"],"id":160209,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"To be of good quality, you have to excuse yourself from the presence of shallow and callow minded individuals.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["alone","bad-company","bad-friends","bad-influence","be-yourself","behaviour","believe-in-yourself","callow","childishness","company","etiquette","good-behaviour","good-quality","immature","immaturity","maturity","mediocre","mediocrity","negative-influence","negative-people","outstanding","peculiar","peculiarity","presence","quality","sensitivity","single","stand-alone"],"id":168802,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"Don't give people the chance to possess you with their negativity; their gibberish can look so charming, but it can't make you a better person.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["bad-influence","chance","charm","charming","charms","gibberish","influence","michael-bassey-johnson","negative-people","negativity"],"id":245523,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"You can believe in whatsoever you like, but the truth remains the truth, no matter how sweet the lie may taste.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["bad-influence","belief","bible","christianity","exaggeration","fabrication","false-prophets","falsification","gospel","half-truth","liar","lie","mendacity","philosophy","religion","sugar-coated","sweet","taste","truth","untruth"],"id":306647,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"Just because you have stolen someone's heart, luckily owned and occupied as a home, doesn't give you the audacity to enforce hurtful policies.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["advantage","apathy","audacity","bad-influence","captivation","capture","control","convention","cruelty","domination","heartbreak","home","hurt","lies","negative-influence","own","owned","owner","policies","policy","self-centred","self-interest","selfishness","social-strata","stance","stealing","stolen","strictness","superiority","taken","taking-advantage-of-someone","tyranny","weaker-vessels","weakness"],"id":354477,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"Pressure has the power to create a diamond, but it has to be the 'right' pressure.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["accept","bad-influence","brainwashing","confidence","forgive","hatred","influence","love-one-another","love-vs-hate","peer-pressure","potential","potential-to-be-great","pressure","rise-higher"],"id":371873,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"Always be careful of where you run to. When the going gets tough, take it easy and slow down, else you venture into the den of lions.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["alertness","bad-company","bad-friends","bad-influence","be-careful","care","careful","den","easy","lion","rethink","run","slow","take-time","think","think-twice","tough","trap","trouble","venture"],"id":379398,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":12,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}