Quotes About Influence

Forever after men sense the forbidding shadow of the primitive, preoedipal mother behind every woman to whom they are attracted. To escape this (..) they are usually attracted to women younger than they.

Ask friends about the people and places that shaped them, and summer springs up quickly when they tell their story: their first kiss, first beer, first job that changed everything.

The wand is mighter then the sword.

Lyndon Johnson realized he really was President, that his identity had changed by President Kennedy's shocking death, when aides who had been like family to him minutes before, stood in his presence on Air Force One.

occupying the office Hoover once

To one degree or another every president is haunted by those who went before, but few so literally as Johnson. No president had ever witnessed the slaying of his predecessor or endured such a brutal transfer of power.

The character of people varies, and it is easy to persuade them of a thing, but difficult to keep them in that persuasion.

Takes more than beer in your blood to take the English out of you.

Your childhood stays with you all your life, no matter where you go.

Je voyage, je me cultive, me transforme ! Mon corps est façonné par une nourriture qui n'est pas la vôtre, mon cerveau s'imprègne de lectures qui ne sont pas les vôtres, je me fabrique, je m'éloigne de vous, et vous n'y pouvez rien. Restez en contact si vous le souhaitez mais sachez que, de toute manière, vous m'avez perdue. Chaque fois que vous me reverrez, je serai méconnaissable. Inconnaissable.

This was how he came to trust in the power of emulation; he believed that people could be conditioned to do the right thing by observing good leaders.

Comedian Marty Feldman adds, "The pen is mightier than the sword, and considerably easier to write with.

avenues—television, magazines, movies, music, friends, malls, and catalogs, to name a few. A steady diet of these worldly influences will shape our view of what is valuable, what is beautiful, and what is important in life.

Christians have done far more damage to the church of Jesus Christ than any sinners outside the church could inflict.

But his letters . . . I took them with me, let the "ounces" cry aloud. I tried to leave, and could not. They would not be left; it was not my fault. I will not be scolded.

Allowing others to decide for us does not guarantee a better decision but almost always guarantees a fuller regret, and regret is a poison I wish on no one.

The fate of many men depended on the fate of this one. And this one I could help

Christians should be on the front lines fighting to liberate society from its captivity to secular worldviews.

Our actions are not simply links in a closed chain of causally connected physical events. We have the capacity to be first causes, starting a new chain of cause and effect.

Government policy merely followed where the universities led.

How do we know whether we are producing life or death? By whether our lives exhibit the beauty of God's character. When people see the way you live, are they drawn closer to God or are they alienated from God? When they observe the way you treat others, do they find the gospel more credible or less credible? That is the standard by which we should measure our actions. Christians are called to be "life-producing machines

Typically it takes several generations for a worldview and all its implications to thoroughly permeate a society.

The only way to drive out bad culture is with good culture.

People who have the power to control the "'official' definitions of reality" are in a position to impose their own private worldview across an entire society.