Quotes About Influence

Elizabeth and her younger sisters, Claude and Marguerite, followed their mother's example.

She ruled from the heart and not the head. She was a femme fatale, a manipulative siren

Diane de Poitiers, the constable's ally, was scarcely treated better.

it began to sink in that whoever married her was likely to become king and could make or break their careers.

As Knox had proclaimed, Elizabeth ruled from the head and Mary from the heart

The exchange turned the Hepburns into powerful border lords.

playing a leading role in the Protestant revolution

the only women important enough to have them in Henry II's reign were Catherine de Medici and Diane de Poitiers.

The Guises were one of the most powerful noble families in France.

England was so much richer and more powerful than its northern neighbor.

hence the palace revolution that had accompanied Francis II's accession only seventeen months before was reversed.

The Guise family's ascendancy was over.

Within a fortnight of her arrival, Mary knew that her whole future lay in Cecil's hands.

She most of all needed Elizabeth's friendship to arm herself against the volatility of her lords

If you take away the Jewish contribution to Christianity, there would be no Christianity. Judaism does not need Christianity to explain its existence; Christianity, however, cannot explain its existence without Judaism.

Whoever is in control of the hell in your life, is your devil.

The minds of young people are pliable and elastic, and easily accommodate themselves to any one they fall in with.

The rulers of the world were Monks, when they could not be Martyrs.

Los movimientos vivos no nacen de comisiones, ni las grandes ideas operan por correo

As a father now myself, it's sobering to think about how the smallest comments will ripple through your children's lives, with some leaving permanent warps. I must console myself in the certainty that I am helping them and damaging them in other ways I cannot see.

Kids are perfect people till grownups get their hands on them.

How we love to love things for other people; how we love to have other people love things through our eyes.

It's a no-win argument - that business of what we're born with and what our environment does to us. And it's a boring argument, because it simplifies the mysteries that attend both our birth and our growth.

Children are most impressed with the importance of a moment when they witness a parent breaking the parents' own rule.