Quotes About Influence

Gay men know that the way to a woman's heart is through her son.

Jayson had decided that he was homosexual while watching a Phil Donahue episode on the topic eight years earlier. He'd come home early from kindergarten that day because he'd gotten a stomach ache from worrying about whether his Hee Haw overalls were too outré for his peers.

Do not underestimate the role you may play in clearing the obstacles in someone's spiritual journey.

The most marvelous and astonishing thing in nineteen centuries of history is the power of His life over the members of the Christian Church. 50/104 George Bancroft said: I find the name of Jesus Christ written on the top of every page of modern history.

parents are heroes already—all they have to do is start acting like it.

No revolution that has ever taken place in society can be compared to that which has been produced by the words of Jesus Christ

If you can get by with quotes from The Godfather and nothing you say matters, that's pretty bleak, don't you think? Don't we want what we say to matter?

The thing about changing the world... Once you do it, the world's all different.

Everything I do is going to contain the message that men who are going to be comfortable with powerful women are going to be more powerful men

It's not enough to bash in heads. You've got to bash in minds.

The news isn't there to tell you what happened. It's there to tell you what it wants you to hear or what it thinks you want to hear.

I don't think that I can change the world, I just want to punch it up a little.

History will always find you, and wrap you In its thousand arms.

I was anything but history. I was the wind.

Memories are strange things. Without being something I can hold in my hand, they wield a beguiling power over me. Like a mirage in the noontime heat of summer they dance before my inner eyes and beckon me to find water where there is no water.

while madness in individuals is relatively rare, it is virtually a prerequisite for a certain sort of political leader.

Where there must be a choice, a girl will choose Daddy. Even if you are Mommy, you concede that this must be so: you remember when you were a girl, too.

Hating The Great Gatsby (the novel) is like spitting into the Grand Canyon. It will not be going away anytime soon, but you will be.

A jury is as bright as the dumbest member of the jury

Katya laughed and shrugged. She was a hired girl; she said such things on order. Much of her life was this sort of semiskilled playing to other people, usually older people, with the hope of making them like her; making them feel that she was valuable to them; wresting some of their power from them, if but fleetingly. It was like provoking a boy or a man to want you. That could be risky, as Katya well knew.

Marx had famously denounced religion as the opiate of the people, now it was Fame that was the opiate of the people;

No amount of denials, protestations, or defenses seemed to make any difference, in what is called the 'court' of public opinion.

of all psychic conditions, anxiety verging upon paranoia/hysteria is perhaps the most contagious, even among men.

The power of a parent to wound, to kill. The power of a parent is terrible.