Quotes About Influence

Every child was born with some kind of knowledge of love, he thought; they took it with the milk at the breast: but on parents and friends depended the kind of love they knew - the saving one or the damning kind. Lust too was a kind of love.

he looked as a man might look who owned the whole world, the whole

It's always the same wherever one goes—it's not the most powerful rulers who have the happiest populations.

Only in childhood do books have any deep influence on our lives. In later life, we admire, we are entertained, we may modify some views we already hold, but we are more likely to find in books merely a confirmation of what is in our minds already.

There are certain songs, and books, and films that are like points of high ground in the memory. Like they are even larger than your own experiences. They never go away.

I suppose that's all a man can hope for during his lifetime,' nodded Horus, 'to set an example, and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history

I know that words cannot move mountains, but they can move the multitude.

We all were shaped by how others see us as much as our own character. - Svafnir Rackwulf

The seeds of any outcome can always be traced back to some earlier moment, and to all those that preceded it. The further back we trace the path, the hazier the connections will become until the tiniest action might be said to have been the origin of any great event.

A man may die yet still endure if his work enters the greater work, for time is carried upon a current of forgotten deeds, and events of great moment are but the culmination of a single carefully placed thought,' said Vitali, reciting the ancient words of wisdom as though they were his own. 'As all men must thank progenitors obscured by the past, so we must endure the present so that those who follow may continue the endeavour.

Las palabras moldean el pensamiento, remueven los sentimientos y accionan las fuerzas. Matan y reviven, corrompen y curan.

There are those who fashion history and those who contemplate it; there are those who make things happen and those who ask why.

We're the new power, come to replace the old. Cameras in the head, children with microchips, spin doctors rewriting reality as it happens.

When was the last time you had a thought that wasn't put there by THEM?

El apocalipsis queda anulado. Hasta que yo lo diga.

People don't respond to what you tell them; they respond to what you show them.

What if they exist because of us?

For once the stone hits the surface of the pond, the ripples never really stop.

Our actions have consequences that last long after us, entwining the present with the future in ways we cannot begin to understand.

Did the fact that Martin Luther King diddled all those women change what he did for his people? Or Franklin Roosevelt? General Eisenhower? Not one whit. Men are men, and gods are for storybooks. And if you've read your Edith Hamilton or Jane Harrison—or the Old Testament, for that matter—you'll know that gods acted like men most of the time, or worse.

When you write a book, you have total control of the universe and everyone in it.

Caitlin's ambition is like a third person in the car.

Billy Graham once said, "We are the Bibles the world is reading. We are the creeds the world is needing. We are the sermons the world is heeding.

our lives are the only Bible some people will ever read. Christians are to be living epistles, written by God and read by men (2 Cor. 3:2).