Quotes About Influence

There are only three great powers in the universe: God in heaven, the pope in the Vatican and Dadá in the great box.

Let us thank God that we live in an age when something has influence besides the bayonet.

To be a god First I must be a god-maker: We are what we create.

Why not? If enough people believe, you can be god of anything.

The only person who has artistic control is the director, and 'director' is how you spell God in Hollywood.

If my parents hadn't been made to do that from living in the Bible Belt, maybe it wouldn't be something that matters to me - maybe I wouldn't even know how to talk to God.

My father was my god. His approval was so valuable to me.

O God, protect me from my friends, that they have not power over me. Thou hast giv'n me power to protect myself from thy bitterest enemies.

Lincoln, speaking of his mother:] "God bless my mother; all that I am or ever hope to be I owe to her.

There are no trifles in the moral universe of God. Speak me a word to-day; ? it shall go ringing on through the ages.

I can see where influential people would like Maharishi better than Jesus. My God, if the Beatles and Mia Farrow went to Jesus, He'd tell them to give all their money away.

I do believe God inspired and worked on everyone's heart.

I like to remind myself, as a parent, that God holds me responsible to, not for, my children!

My music comes from country music. Merle Haggard is God, and I do believe that. I'm not too tuned in to country music. I don't know who Brooks and Dunn are. I like Shania Twain, though!

Elvis Presley? He's God.

The voice of the people may be said to be God's voice, the voice of the Panchayat.

The devil flees before the sound of music almost as much as before the Word of God.

The only enduring influence we have to offer others is the influence God has in our own lives.

I don't know how much God has to do to get the attention of the politicians.

Everything I am, everything I'll ever be, I owe to my family, to God's grace and to the people of Indiana.

God works through people. It's not me.

God bless my father, but he always spoke in this continental, literary accent, probably because he was a professor of comparative literature and he made the decision to speak with distinction.

What is technology?... It's another god.

Howard Beale is processed, instant God, and right now it looks like he might just go over bigger than Mary Tyler Moore.