Quotes About Influence

What would my grandfather say? Ben thought. Politics is the art of chingando. Chinga aquí, chingá allá, chinga a todos iguales. The art of chingando was very democratic; everybody got screwed.

I have seen something of this world, she said over the trays, and there are but two sorts of women in it-- those who take the strength out of a man, and those who put it back. Once I was that one, and now I am this.

There are few things sweeter in this world than the guileless, hotheaded, intemperate, open admiration of a junior. Even a woman in her blindest devotion does not fall into the gait of the man she adores, tilt her bonnet to the angle at which he wears his hat, or interlard her speech with his pet oaths.

Words are the most powerful drug used by humankind.

I am by nature a dealer in words, and words are the most powerful drug known to humanity.

There is no gift like friendship. Remember this - when you become a young man. For your fate will turn on the first true friend you make.

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch, If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!

When little boys have learned a new bad word they are never happy till they have chalked it up on a door. And this also is Literature.

It seems - and who so astonished as they? - that they had held back material facts; that they were guilty of both suppressio veri and suggestio falsi (well-known gods against whom they often offended); further, that they were malignant in their dispositions, untrustworthy in their characters, pernicious and revolutionary in their influences, abandoned to the devils of wilfulness, pride, and a most intolerable conceit. Ninthly, and lastly, they were to have a care and to be very careful.

What avail is honour or a sword against a pen?

If a man brings a good mind to what he reads he may become, as it were, the spiritual descendant to some extent of great men, and this link, this spiritual hereditary tie, may help to just kick the beam in the right direction at a vital crisis; or may keep him from drifting through the long slack times when, so to speak, we are only fielding and no balls are coming our way.

The Viceroy possessed no name – nothing but a string of counties and two-thirds of the alphabet after them.

Las palabras constituyen la droga más potente que haya inventado la humanidad.

By all ye cry or whisper, By all ye leave or do, The silent, sullen peoples Shall weigh your gods and you.

Money dominates everybody except those who do not want money. Rudyard Kipling in an address at McGill University in 1907

Cuvintele sunt cel mai important drog utilizat de omenire.

And you needn't worry about being useful,' said Dame Ursula. 'When you have become God's in the measure He wants, He, Himself, will know how to bestow you on others.' She was quoting St Basil. Then her face grew wistful, '"Unless He prefer, for thy greater advantage, to keep thee all to himself." That does happen to a few people. Yet, paradoxically, they have the greatest influence.

Rush Limbaugh

It's coming to seem the only way to avoid hurting other people, which in his experience is what gives them power over you.

It's a landscape that controls you, sits you down and says, Shut up, pal, I'm in charge here.

Fixing motives is like fixing blame-the further away from the act you get, the harder it is to single out one thing as having caused it.

I stil aint qwite said how it wer. Not like a diffrent country. It wer mor like I wer behynt the back clof in a show. Thats how it wer. Thru the clof I cud see the other figgers moving I cud see the peopl watching only no 1 cud see me. If I wer a figger in a show what hand wer moving me then? I cudnt be bothert to think on that right then. Theres all ways some thingwl be moving you if it aint 1 thing its a nother you cant help that.

I long to speak out the intense inspiration that comes to me from the lives of strong women.

Beware of Mrs. Meir. She is a formidable person.