Quotes About Influence

We must effectively counter Moscow's attempts at influence with American strength and resolve, certainly not with a weak approach to President Putin or with any relief from sanctions.

Think about one of the most powerful influences on a young child's life - the absence of a father figure. Look back on recent presidents, and you'll find an absent, or weak, or failed father in the lives of Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama.

Tillis has been weak on China since he got to Washington.

I have to tell you, as your Secretary of State, I went to 112 countries, and when people hear those words, they hear America. So don't let anyone tell you that our country is weak. We're not. Don't let anyone tell you we don't have what it takes. We do.

The rest of the world sees America as weak.

Instead of a weak and vacillating Government, a single, purposeful, energetic personality is ruling today.

People are composed of many things, and in my work, what influences me is the complexity of people - the chiaroscuro of dark and light. When I play a strong guy, I try to find, where is he weak? And, conversely, when I play a weak guy, where is he strong?

In the modern world, those who are weak will get unambiguous advice from foreign visitors which way to go and what policy course to pursue.

Weak presidents are neither respected nor electorally rewarded by their publics.

A weak people and its equally debilitated leaders are bludgeoned by history. It maims them into the cripples that they are meant to be.

Gollum has a weak personality and isn't able to cope with the power of the ring.

I used to sing SWV's 'Weak' every day when people would ask me to sing.

When I was a teenager, I thought if any of my friends or people at school see me reading a book, they're gonna think I'm weak. So I didn't even do it in private. Then I grew up, got into college, and the teachers turned me on to books, and I got hooked.

When I was growing up, I didn't feel strong. I felt weak. I felt like a scared little kid. So I naturally turned to books to deal with that feeling, and I really turned to fantasy. That's really what influenced my decision to write a fantasy novel.

A puny body weakens the soul.

Past experience has shown that the Islamists gain space when civilian authority weakens.

It's not just what you do on the pitch, it's what you do off the pitch.

I don't think there could've been a pitch as crass as Trump's 'I can fix America because I'm rich' without that groundwork laid by Davos and the Clinton Global Initiative.

I try to be a leader on the pitch rather than off it.

On the pitch, I have always had that responsibility to lead the team. But, of course, when you are captain, players, especially the young ones, they look at you more for the things you do on and off the pitch. But I have always been a very calm person.

In a way, the manager plays as big part, but you, as a player, are on the pitch. He cannot make you run if you don't want to; he cannot make you make the right decision in the heat of the moment.

My grandma used to pitch to me. Hit rocks with a broomstick.

Teams always have natural leaders on the pitch and natural leaders in footballing terms.

Verlander is a guy every right-handed power pitcher looks up to since the beginning of time.