Quotes About Influence

Words have power," Isaac answered. Words begin and end wars. They create and destroy families. They break hearts. They heal them. If you have the right words, there's nothin on earth you can't do." - Crave the Moon

There will be sway.

You don't know if you ruined your kids or if they were born that way.

Culture is not a matter of a change of climate.

When a man makes a specialty of knowing how some other fellow ought to spend his money, he usually thinks in millions and works for hundreds.

Sinatra was just one of Mom's friends.

What do you want want to be remembered for?" she asked tartly. He slowly shook his head. "I just want to be remembered.

He wanted to change her past, but even as he thought it, he realized it was her very past that had shaped her into a woman who fascinated him.

Ella] Era la luna y las estrellas. El sol y la lluvia. Más que gustarme ella, me gustaba cómo me sentía cuando estaba con ella. Me volvía optimista, invencible. Más amable, más bondadoso. Ella sacaba lo mejor de mí.» (De la traducción castellana, por Amparo Sánchez)

I often think that at the center of me is a voice that at last did split, a house in my heart so invaded with other people and their speech, friends I believed I was devoted to, people whose lives I can simply guess at now, that it gives me the impression I am simply a collection of them, that they all existed for themselves, but had inadvertently formed me, then vanished. But, what: Should I have been expected to create my own self, out of nothing, out of thin, thin air and alone?

What women these Christians have." ~ Libanius, fourth-century pagan scholar

A book is a success when people who haven't read it pretend they have.

Make man believe he is doing the right thing, with enough convincing powers, by any means so appropriate, then man, this being that was made superior by God, may do the most sinister thing,both imaginable and in real time

Bilinçle kavrad???m?z ve yapt???m?z ?eylerin, bireysel geli?imimizle hiçbir ilgisi olmayan gizli kalm?? duyusal izlenimlere k?yasla hayat?m?z üzerindeki etkisi ne kadar az.

Bilinçle kavrad???m?z ve yapt???m?z ?eylerin, bireysel geli?imimizle hiçbir ilgisi olmayan gizli kalm?? duyusal izlenimlere k?yasla hayat?m?z üzerindek? etkisi ne kadar az.

Be careful. Everything you say, every single day, may be recorded in your students' hearts forever.

I'm talking about influence that God wants to give us. I'm talking about opportunities. I'm talking about walking in paths of righteousness for his name's sake. I'm talking about stepping out in obedience. I'm talking about prayer and action. If our hearts are wide open in faith, then God is wide open to us.

all of us are shepherded whether we realize it or not. Your shepherd might not be Jesus. But something is going to lead you.

The greatest potential for control the ends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Without claiming to be exhaustive, I maintain that every philosophy reproduces within itself, in one way or another, the conflict in which it finds itself compromised and caught up in the outside world.

Society matters not so much. Words are everything.

I had always been considered such a nonentity where human relations were concerned that the idea that I might have an influence, even a corrupting influence ... penetrated my heart with a fierce little sting of pleasure.

VIOLET LONGCOPE had, from the earliest signs of her daughter's incipient beauty, drilled into Clarabel's lovely head the warning that a single unwary submission of the heart to the wrong male charm could throw a girl perhaps irretrievably off the smooth tracks of the best laid life plan. The

All the fundamental concepts which make up the kind of people we are today had their modern conception in the Tudor and Stuart periods. For us, that's the milk in the coconut.