Quotes About Influence

Places, she told herself, were not evil: they were what people made of them.

We mustn't say anything that might pull him away from God's plan for his life. Guilt has a way of tugging one off course.

You didn't change me. You simply showed me the way to be. So thank you, Neva Shilling, for living your faith in the face of hardship. You are a true inspiration.

I felt no pressure that my grandfather was famous and my uncle was famous.

Uncle Brett had a definite vision that he was after, I don't think having a famous father affected him much.

Sometimes, Ada," she said, "I get very tired of you setting the example for us all.

wanted Mam to be like Susan. I didn't really trust Susan not to be like Mam.

I wanted Mam to be like Susan. I didn't really trust Susan not to be like Mam.

Making a long stay short is a great aid to popularity.

Politics makes strange postmasters.

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

With all the mass media concentrated in a few hands, the ancient faith in the competition of ideas in the free market seems like a hollow echo of a much simpler day.

It is the natural desire of each nation to use the other as an instrument of its own purposes and policies. By dint of our mutual dependence, your influence is amplified by our power. Our power is made more responsible and more effective by your influence.

The newspaper fits the readers program while the listener must fit the broadcasters program.

All a woman ever needs know about men is that they are creatures of their codpieces. Appeal to their chausses and you will have complete control of them, for when their male piece is in control, their brain is not.

It's amazing how much power a simple false phrase repeated can have.

a woman ever needs know about men is that they are creatures of their codpieces. Appeal to their chausses and you will have complete control of them, for when their male piece is in control, their brain is not.

You are a very dangerous woman, Serenity. (Morgan) Me? (Serenity) Aye. And the worst part is, you don't even know why. (Morgan)

Now here was Saeed Saeed, and Biju's admiration for the man confounded him. Fate worked this way. Biju was overcome by the desire to be his friend, because Saeed Saeed wasn't drowning, he was bobbing in the tides.

You can catch more flies with honey than with sour milk

I have the strange feeling that man created language but now it creates us.

I tell students, 'If you are learning from YouTube I almost don't want to teach you because what you learn from YouTube it takes 10 times as long to unlearn.' They do an approximation of the centre of the note, an approximation of the interpretation, a cloned version.

If someone had given me a tank top with shoulder pads, I probably would have put it on. I couldn't possibly have understood the influence I had—or, to be honest, the influence my character, Mike Seaver, had. When I spun around sporting sunglasses and a brown leather coat during the Growing Pains theme, millions of teens were doing the same thing in front of their bathroom mirrors. I had no idea.

I was really glad when my former crush, Tracey, joined the show. She looked a lot like my sisters and it wasn't long before I started treating her like one.