Quotes About Influence

She never let me be me. She made me in her image. She made me, made me, made me. She never let any of me be me.

Whatever action we take may influence the course of civilization.

men are monsters all, and something in them wants to force others to see the world the same way they see it.

Tão certo é que a paisagem depende do ponto de vista, e que o melhor modo de apreciar o chicote é ter-lhe o cabo na mão.

TO THE FIRST WORM TO GNAW THE COLD FLESH OF MY CORPSE I TENDERLY DEDICATE THESE POSTHUMOUS MEMOIRS

Há frases assim felizes. Nascem modestamente, como a gente pobre; quando menos pensam, estão governando o mundo, à semelhança das idéias. As próprias idéias nem sempre conservam o nome do pai; muitas aparecem órfãs, nascidas de nada e de ninguém. Cada um pega delas, verte-as como pode, e vai levá-las à feira, onde todos as têm por suas

but he needed the approval of a few, to confirm the applause of the others.

De là naît une dispute: s'il est meilleur d'être aimé que craint, ou l'inverse. On répond qu'on voudrait être l'un et l'autre; mais comme il est difficile de les marier ensemble, il est beaucoup plus sûr d'être craint qu'aimé, quand on doit manquer de l'un des 2.

From this arises the following question: whether it is better to be loved than feared, or the reverse. The answer is that one would like to be both the one and the other, but because they are difficult to combine, it is far better to be loved than feared if you cannot be both.

BaÅŸkas?n?n güçlenmesinin nedeni olan kiÅŸi kendi y?k?m?na yol açar çünkü o güç ya becerinin ya zor kullanman?n sonucudur ve güçlü hale gelmiÅŸ kiÅŸi için bu iki nitelik de kuÅŸkuludur

Those who believe that where great personages are concerned new favors cause old injuries to be forgotten deceive themselves.

discontented inhabitants who willingly admit a foreign power either through excessive ambition or through fear, as was the case with the Etolians, who admitted the Romans into Greece. So it was with every province that the Romans entered: they were brought in by the inhabitants themselves.

This raises the question whether it is better to be loved than feared, or the contrary. My reply is that I would like to be both but as it is difficult to combine love and fear, if one has to choose between them it is far safer to be feared than loved

What do you expect to happen if you teach your child to roll joints at the age of ten? How will she turn out if she is free to pilfer the lesser of your personal pharmacy? Who will she be if she is left to find her way among adults who are lost or hellbent on losing themselves?

My father was different. He loved me, but under ordinary circumstances, he didn't see himself as my protector and my guide. He saw himself as a very cool person who loved to hang out with other cool people, including his own children.

What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.

We draw people to Christ not by loudly discrediting what they believe, by telling them how wrong they are and how right we are, but by showing them a light that is so lovely that they want with all their hearts to know the source of it.

Our story is never written in isolation. We do not act in a one-man play. We can do nothing that does not affect other people, no matter how loudly we say, It's my own business.

Nothing, no one, is too small to matter. What you do is going to make a difference.

The best way to guide children without coercion is to be ourselves.

Meg, when people don't know who they are, they are open either to being Xed, or Named

If the artist reflects only his own culture, then his works will die with that culture. But if his works reflect the eternal and universal, they will revive.

So I know, with a sense of responsibility that hits me with a cold fist in the pit of my stomach, that what I am is going to make more difference to my own children and those I talk to and teach than anything I tell them.

We write alone, but we do not write in isolation. No matter how fantastic a story line may be, it still comes out of our response to what is happening to us and to the world in which we live.