Quotes About Influence

A golden bribe can change hands at voting, but the true value in Rome is influence and favor.

A power is seductive

Who of us would have ended up where we are if someone hadn't had the good sense to interfere with us?

Once more she was her father's puppet. But it hadn't been a role of her choosing.

Este tipo de atracciones son tan poderosas como las incontrolables corrientes marinas

Why do only the awful things become fads? I thought. Eye-rolling and Barbie and bread pudding. Why never chocolate cheesecake or thinking for yourself?

our early personal histories and unmet emotional needs influence our adult spiritual quests and religious desires.

As Gandhi put it, "Those who say that religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion really means.

Whitman had a profound influence on me. That was during my sophomore year when I came down with a bad attack of Whitmanitis. But he did me a lot of good, and I think the influence is discoverable.

It took a while for me to grasp that my colleagues believe I have made an impact on the history of cinema.

Billions of people have seen and been influenced by movies in the short history of this industry.

Sharper than a serpent's fang is a woman's tongue

It is a melancholy fact that childhood, so short when compared with the average span of life, should exert such a strong and permanent influence on character that no amount of self-training afterwards can ever completely counter it.

The most dangerous people in the world are those with a grain of knowledge who promote themselves as authorities or authority figures. They only proceed to give half truthful, half right answers and in the end we all lose because of them.

Water does nothing yet it penetrates everything. Inaction finds the road.

Women, if the soul of the nation is to be saved, I believe that you must become its soul.

I've always kind of lived my life to be as much as possible a positive role model for children.

My discrepancy with children in the industry is that they are made famous before they know who they are as human beings.

Every president needs to deal with the permanent government of the country, and the permanent government of the country is Wall Street oligarchs and corporate plutocrats and the questions becomes what is the relationship between that president and Wall Street.

None of us alone can save the nation or the world. But each of us can make a positive difference if we commit ourselves to do so. (p. 109)

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme. --Aristotle

To Mr. Blot, who went through life an unconscious example of the raison d'être of the British Empire, a shipwreck was merely one of the many things to be ignored. His was a calming influence.

Satan goes to church more than anybody else because he knows that, at a particular time and place, a corrupt church can devastate the cause of the gospel.

[Of Petronius:] Nero… looked up to him as a decisive authority in matters of taste.