Quotes About Influence

How can they not have invited him to this meeting? He used to have influence – he used to rule over them all. He used to be someone.

It has been drummed into her by physicians and priests alike that the character of a child is determined by the mother's thoughts at the moment of conception.

To ignore it is to drain it of its power.

how different it all might have been, how minuscule the causes and how devastating their effects.

a large and ever-expanding range at the bullies' disposal.

and I took hers, it was as simple as that, but Father said I must never say, that—

Had she been too hard on her as a girl? Was that why she'd grown up so fearful, somehow, so reluctant to make her way in the world?

The people who teach us something retain a particularly vivid place in our memories. I'd been a parent for about ten minutes when I met the man, but he taught me, with a small gesture, one of the most important things about the job: kindness, intuition, touch, and that sometimes you don't even need words.

We are all, Esme decides, just vessels through which identities pass: we are lent features, gestures, habits, then we hand them on. Nothing is our own. We bein in the world as anagrams of our antecedents.

A man of feeble character resembles a reed that bends with every gust of wind.

God blessed me with two unbelievable parents, and I am just like both of them. I have the smile and charisma of my mother and the big heart of my mom, because she wants to save the world and help the world, so I am just like her.

Money just draws flies.

We effect more than we can possibly know. With every mood, every thought, every word, every gesture, we change our lives and our universe.

President means Chief Servant.

Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.

The future depends on what we do in the present.

Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.

Les rêves aussi sont contagieux

Chet suddenly wished she had quit teaching the class because of him, that he'd had any effect on her at all.

You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.

You've got him trained well. It's kind of sexy.

We invent the world through language. The world occurs through language.

El día en que esta Santa Sede se sujete a la nueva Europa de diplomáticos y políticos, a la Europa centrada en Bruselas y París, aquel día comenzarán realmente los infortunios de la Iglesia

life can turn from being cheerful, warm and cozy to negative in a sec, and all it takes is us handing the power of happiness over to another human being.