Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.
It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives.
In every religion there is an element of the supernatural, varying with the influence of pure reason over its devotees.
I could start with Mandelstam, who was a huge influence on my early writing.
The older I grow the more I see the influence of my family on my life. I didn't always see it. It was up to our parents to see that we had our education in a town that hadn't yet realized what racial prejudice was but actually knew and practiced it on occasion.
The people who influence you are the people who believe in you.
Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.
A guy called Arthur Brown... was a big influence of mine... and also Ian Anderson from Jethro Tull.
Among the best traitors Ireland has ever had, Mother Church ranks at the very top, a massive obstacle in the path to equality and freedom. She has been a force for conservatism... to ward off threats to her own security and influence.
The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence.
I felt Joyce was an influence on my fiction, but in a very general way, as a kind of inspiration and a model for the beauty of language.
That's one of the things about the Tea Party people. They think corporations have too much influence in American life and they do.
My current mantra is that sometimes we need teachers in our lives. I never had that in my life, parents and stuff like that; I tried to stay on the outside of them or anybody that had that kind of influence.