Quotes about Influence
Both Marty and Smalls knew that in politics, like religion, power lay in certainty—and that one man's certainty always threatened another's.
— Barack Obama
Ultimately it was rap that got my head in the right place, two songs especially: Jay-Z's "My 1st Song" and Eminem's "Lose Yourself.
— Barack Obama
Every human interaction offers you the chance to make things better or to make things worse.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
He was getting that look he gets, oh boy, like Here comes Moses tromping down off of Mount Syanide with ten fresh ways to wreck your life.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Be careful what you give children, for sooner or later you are sure to get it back.
— Barbara Kingsolver
I said probably they were just scared he was going to put ideas in our heads. She smiled. "Imagine that. A teacher, putting ideas in kids' heads.
— Barbara Kingsolver
What we end up calling history is a kind of knife, slicing down through time. A few people are hard enough to bend its edge. But most won't even stand close to the blade. I'm one of those. We don't bend anything.
— Barbara Kingsolver
A mother's unfulfilled ambitions lie heaviest on her daughters.
— Barbara Kingsolver
What there is in this world I think is a tendency for human errors to level themselves like water throughout there sphere of influence. That's pretty much the whole of what I can say looking back. There is the possibility of balance.Unbearable burden that the world somehow bare with a certain grace.
— Barbara Kingsolver
It's the radio, you see. The radio makes everyone feel the same thing at the same time. Instead of millions of various thoughts, one big psychological fixation. The radio commands our gut response.
— Barbara Kingsolver
If God speaks for the man who keeps quiet, then Violet Brown may be His instrument.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Her mark on history: the female acquaintance.
— Barbara Kingsolver