Quotes About Influence

It is better to be feared than loved.

A schoolfellow of Vronsky's and of the same age, he was a general and was expecting a command, which might have influence on the course of political events; while Vronsky, independent and brilliant and beloved by a charming woman though he was, was simply a cavalry captain who was readily allowed to be as independent as ever he liked.

You can never know about about your own destiny: are the people you meet there to play a part on your oun destiny, or do you exist just to play a role in theirs?

I changed the world; the world changed me. Everything you do comes back to you. When you affect a situation, you are also affected.

Women who have power are always feared.

I change the world, the world changes me.

When she can't bring me to heal with scolding, she bends me to shape with guilt.

My platform's called Don't Even Think About It. I go to schools and I say, 'Whatever bad thing it is you're thinking of doing, don't even think about it. 'Cause I can see into your soul, and I will hide in your closet and come for you in the night, and the last sound you ever hear will be my sharp teeth popping through the flesh of my gums, ready to eat you.' Their eyes get all big. It's awesome. I love little kids, man. They're the cutest

We're like pretty horses, and just as on horses, they mean to put blinders on us so we can't look left or right but only straight ahead where they would lead.

We're all looking glasses, we girls, existing only to reflect their images back to them as they'd like to be seen. Hollow vessels of girls to be rinsed of our own ambitions, wants, and opinions, just waiting to be filled with the cool, tepid water of gracious compliance.

Stories were power. And whoever controlled the story controlled everything. A story could bring people together, or it could tear them apart. It could spread like a sickness, infecting people. It could lead them into battle or shake them into seeing what they had refused to see before.

Might. Is there any opiate more powerful than that word?

Brought to you by The Corporation: In your homes and in your pants.

Truth casts a spell of its own.

Well, are you going to motivate people to bring peace to war-torn nations, or are you going to motivate people to join a cult and drink the Kool-Aid?

You must be the change you want to see in the world.

Why does it always seem that I have only the shadow of my father? I'm like a child constantly grabbing at his coattails and missing.

We're all looking glasses, we girls, existing only to reflect their images back to them as they'd like to be seen.

You try standing up to my mom. She's a force of nature.

There is no greater power on this earth than story....

Nobody wants to be themselves. That's why there's TV. So you know what to want and who to be.

But it would have made them suspect. Women who have power are always feared

Every leader has blood on her hands.

Do you think some places just hold on to evil? That you can't paint or wash it away? It lives on, no matter what you build on top