Quotes about Influence
The clergy are, practically, the most irresponsible of all talkers. [ Evangelical Teaching: Dr. Cumming, The Westminster Review, 1885. ]
— George Eliot
No chemical process shows a more wonderful activity than the transforming influence of the thoughts we imagine to be going on in another.
— George Eliot
The progress of the world can certainly never come at all save by the modified action of the individual beings who compose the world.
— George Eliot
The existence of insignificant people has very important consequences in the world. It can be shown to affect the price of bread and the rate of wages, to call forth many evil tempers from the selfish and many heroisms from the sympathetic, and, in other ways, to play no small part in the tragedy of life.
— George Eliot
Minds that have been unhinged from their old faith and love, have perhaps sought this Lethean influence of exile, in which the past becomes dreamy because its symbols have all vanished, and the present too is dreamy because it is linked with no memories.
— George Eliot
To many among us neither heaven nor earth has any revelation till some personality touches theirs with a particular influence, subduing them into receptiveness.
— George Eliot
A kind Providence furnishes the limpest personality with a little gum or starch in the form of tradition.
— George Eliot
Women were expected to have weak opinions; but the great safeguard of society and of domestic life was, that opinions were not acted on.
— George Eliot
our tongues are little triggers which have usually been pulled before general intentions can be brought to bear.
— George Eliot
Our deeds still travel with us from afar, And what we have been makes us what we are." Bulstrode's
— George Eliot
If you like to swallow him, for his sister's sake, you may; but I've no sauce that will make him go down.
— George Eliot
But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs. The End
— George Eliot