Quotes About Influence

There it is! Do it or I'll have (my mother) do it for you! How's that for a threat? Effective.

The gods have no hands but ours, they say.

people do get hypnotized by the hard choices. And stop looking for alternatives. The will to be stupid is a very powerful force—

For a magician, it is better to be possessed by the demon than ignored by him. Rabbi Lamed Ben Clifford

That night we danced, I marked you as mine and I made it stick. There wasn't a boy or a man on that lake that didn't know who you belonged to, and the minute there was even a whiff one of them was stepping over the line, they walked funny for a week.

If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought again – anon

He could talk to a buzzard and make it coo.

Zoe tried to sound like an older sister.

She thought about Ariel again, how much the girl's approval has come to mean to her, and wondered how one's children got so powerful that way.

It's good to be successful but it's great to be significant

a change came about under the influence of Schleiermacher, who sought to safeguard the scientific character of theology by the introduction of a new method. The religious consciousness of man was substituted for the Word of God as the source of theology.

our ability to learn is regulated by how we are treated by our teachers, at home and in the classroom.

I am not a cynic, but I do know that history is the propaganda of the victors.

The mayor was also the local policeman, which meant that only one man needed to be bribed rather than two... The community was proud that he was their mayor and their policeman even though he had sold his neice to Pedro the Grocer for one hundred and twenty-two words.

EÄŸer insanlar?n nefret kusmalar? hiç bir riziko ta??m?yorsa, salakl?klar? kolay ikna olur, gerekçelerde kendiliÄŸinden ortaya ç?kar.

You stick your finger in the water and you pull it out, and that is how much of a hole you leave when you're gone.

Up to a point a man's life is shaped by environment, heredity, and movements and changes in the world about him; then there comes a time when it lies within his grasp to shape the clay of his life into the sort of thing he wishes to be. Only the weak blame parents, their race, their times, lack of good fortune, or the quirks of fate. Everyone has it within his power to say, this I am today, that I shall be tomorrow. The wish, however, must be implemented by deeds.

I really learned how to write from Robert Louis Stevenson, Anthony Trollope, and de Maupassant.

Someone has said that culture is what remains with you after you have forgotten all you have read, and I believe there is much truth in that.

To be a man was to be responsible. It was as simple as that. To be a man was to build something, to try to make the world about him a bit easier to live in for himself and those who followed. You could sneer at that, you could scoff, you could refuse to acknowledge it, but when it came right down to it, Conn decided it was the man who planted a tree, dug a well, or graded a road who mattered.

It is this by which we measure a man, by what he does with his life, by what he creates to leave behind. —Louis L'Amour

We will always have Reeses and Heseltines, and they will always seem big and brave to growing boys. They swagger and make loud noises in their own little circle, but they are only the coyotes that yap around the heels of the herd. 'Remember this, Shell, the coyotes aren't going anywhere, but the herd is, and so are the men who drive the herd.

No man is a complete ruler or dictator. He is only the mouthpiece for the wishes of his followers. As long as he expresses those wishes, he leads them.

Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you." –