Quotes About Influence

they had a power far beyond their numbers. That was also what made a girls' high school so frightening.

For the images of the gods are much easier to misuse for human purposes than the gods themselves. Images have no will and no desires. Statues stand for nothing but the goals of the rulers. … The word of a god is, in truth, only the word of the one who erected his statue.

How can I rule anyone - when you so completely rule me?

If someone was going to hell, Kundavai would stop him and take him to heaven. That's one kind of power. But do you know what Nandini would do? It must be said that her power goes a step further. She would convince him that hell is heaven, and make him jump happily into hell!

Religious leaders should keep to religion. If they interfere in politics, it spells doom for religion as well as for the kingdom.

You can get much farther with a smile, a kind word, and a gun than you can with a smile and a kind word. -Al Capone

She who does not make the world better for having lived in it has failed to be all that woman should be.

Christian spirituality had been strongly influenced by Platonism, which sought to liberate the soul from the body, but in some circles in the early fourth century, people were beginning to hope that their hitherto despised bodies could bring men and women to the divine—or at least that it was not a reality separate from the physical, as the Platonists held.25

Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories.

We should also make ourselves aware that our cultural, ethical, religious, and intellectual traditions have all been profoundly affected by other peoples'.

The young (Somali) women were very inquisitive as to European customs, and listened attentively to descriptions of the manners, education, and clothes of white ladies, as if out to complete their strategic education with the knowledge of how the males of an alien race were conquered and subdued.

Our words are powerful, and they have consequences.

Ho personalmente sezionato la lingua, e benché non abbia trovato muscoli specifici per i pettegolezzi, questo sembra lo scopo principale di quell'organo-almeno a corte.

A man doesn't have to be alive to start the fires of revolution.

Did you know that when you save someone's life, it makes you their hero? Did you know that, even if that person is mad at your for saving their life, another person who may have been watching or who may have heard about it could be affected by what you did for that other person, and you could be a hero to them, too?

Was there some fault in English fathers and mothers of the rich and famous?

It makes me wonder which tendencies are decided by birth, and which by desire.

My dear brother, never allow a woman to hold all of the cards.

Excellent. I feel better already. My lady, you have had a very positive influence over Lord Westerville. He has left the morbid world of Only Black behind and now embraces other colors of the spectrum.

No one … can entirely step out of his time, that despite his keenness of vision his thinking is in many ways bound to be influenced by the mentality of his time

I'd no particular ambitions beyond being either widely admired or stealthily influential—I was torn between the two.

The dog show emphasizes bloodline, appearance, and comportment, but money and breeding are never far from anyone's mind.

Over the years I've come to feel that the way people respond to us has less to do with what we've done and more to do with who they are.

It's really easy to persuade people to be hateful