Quotes about Influence
People expected me to be creative and true to myself. In that way, I follow my father's footsteps.
— Rohan Marley
What I can say, categorically, is that working with Sarah Paulson and Kathy Bates will have been the most formative experience for me, as an actor, for the rest of my life.
— Cody Fern
I fell in love with funk music through my father - Funkadelic - as well as soul and classical early on.
— Miguel
A woman could be the wind beneath a man's sails or a gale to send him into uncharted waters. She could be an anchor in stormy seas, or she could let him drift into the rocks.
— Francine Rivers
People either weigh you down or give you wings.
— Francine Rivers
Life is like a pond, and every decision and act we commit, good or bad, is a pebble flung into it. The ripples spread in widening circles.
— Francine Rivers
You have no idea the power a good woman has over a man. You made me think about the faith I thought Id lost. He gave a low laugh. You got me back inside a church. And, if all that isn't enough.. He took her hand, kissed the palm, and pressed it flat against his bare chest. She could feel the hard pounding of his heart. Does that make you feel safer?
— Francine Rivers
If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.
— Frank Herbert
One uses power by grasping it lightly. To grasp too strongly is to be taken over by power, and thus to become its victim.
— Frank Herbert
We tend to become like the worst in those we oppose.
— Frank Herbert
To use raw power is to make yourself infinitely vulnerable to greater powers.
— Frank Herbert
In politics, the tripod is the most unstable of all structures.
— Frank Herbert