Quotes About Influence

Individuals initiate mass evil, but they need the collaboration of many people to carry it out.

Like Whitney Houston, we believe the children are the future. But adults are in charge of the present, and we should start acting like it.

it is Christians who have been primarily responsible for disseminating knowledge of the Torah to so much of the world.

No matter how old you are, as long as a parent is alive, you are still a child. It is only after both die that you cease being a child. And then, all of a sudden, not only are you no longer a child, you are also next in line.

Very few of us can or will be famous. But all of us can be significant.

Moreover, the yearning for different sexual partners is true for men who have frequent sex and for men who have little sex, for bachelors and for married men, for men who love their partners and for men who are unhappily married. In other words, it is true for nearly all men. For most men, it is monogamy, not the search for different sexual partners, that is the result of social influence

Don't just aspire to make a living. Aspire to make a difference.

At the end of the day, it's not about what you have or even what you've accomplished. It's about what you've done with those accomplishments. It's about who you've lifted up, who you've made better. It's about what you've given back.

Don't just aspire to make a living, aspire to make a difference

The power of proclamation is the one weapon the church needs to major in these days.

The main vehicle of both blessings and curses is words. Such words may be spoken or written or merely uttered inwardly.

Win the crowd and you will win your freedom

There is a saying: in the kingdom of the blind, the one eyed man is king. I promptly invented its analogy, based it on experience. When no one knows what to do anyone with a sensible suggestion is going to be listened to.

a Man's sense of Morality tends to decrease as his Power increases

Grey had noticed this female paradox before: women who swooned at the notion of powerful men who would protect them at the same time liked nothing better than an open admission of helplessness on the part of any male within their sphere of influence.

Ye ken that, don't ye? That they can only be what they are because you and I are what we are?

Man's sense of Morality tends to decrease as his Power increases

Money is a good bridle, but a weak rein.

the power and the danger of magic lie in the people who believe it.

It's strange," he said, "when he was alive, I didna pay him much heed. But once he was dead, the things he'd told me had a good deal more influence.

I am deeply indebted to many people who have shared their love of and insights into these remarkable books with me over the years, none more than Jessica Matthews of George Mason University.

it does not escape me that one can wield Sword or Musket only upon one Enemy at a time, while Words may be employed upon any Number.

Probably from Norse roots. There's a lot of the Norse influence round here, and all the way up the coast to the West. Some of the place names are Norse, you know, not Gaelic at all.

Washington knew what he was about, though; he listened more than he talked, and when he said something, it was to the point.