Quotes About Influence

Describing Robert Bunsen:As an investigator he was great, as a teacher he was greater, as a man and friend he was greatest.

My dad was such a great story-teller, a good teacher.

Technology is not neutral. We're inside of what we make, and it's inside of us. We're living in a world of connections — and it matters which ones get made and unmade.

Technology doesn't just do things for us. It does things to us, changing not just what we do but who we are.

In this era of world leadership, the metal detector is the altar and the minicam may be god.

Was it possible that some men possessed so great a force of character that they could stamp themselves upon their words such that no matter where they were read, or when, or in what language, their own distinctive tones would always be heard?

It's something you don't see until it's gone-the shapes and things have and the ways in which the people around you mould the shapes.

The war, when it comes, will not be for opium. It will be for a principle: for freedom – for the freedom of trade and for the freedom of the Chinese people. Free Trade is a right conferred on Man by God, and its principles apply as much to opium as to any other article of trade. More so perhaps, since in its absence many millions of natives would be denied the lasting advantages of British influence.

that politics has invaded everything, spared nothing . . . religion, art, family . . . it has taken over everything . . . there is no escape from it . . .

Some day, following the example of men like themselves, said Mr Fraser, the Chinese too would take to Free Trade:

Bahram smiled to himself as he listened: the arguments were marvellously simple yet irrefutable. Really, there was no language like English for turning lies into legalisms.

only a woman has the power to choose whether or not to bestow.

You've held the world in your hands for thousands of years and you've turned it into a horror show.

All our tongues and cultures are constant shoplifters from other tongues and cultures.

A man who has the ability to generate a new word and to inject it into the bloodstream of the language seems to me only a little lower than the Creator of light and darkness. If you write a book, you may be fortunate enough to be read for a while, until other, better books come along and take its place; but to produce a new word is to approach immortality.

Being conformist and respectful as I was of the grown-up world and its prevailing values, and having no brothers or sisters or friends to counterbalance the personality cult that surrounded me, I had no alternative but to concur, humbly but thoroughly, with the grown-ups' opinion of me.

Love goes where it will, and the attempt to redirect it actually corrupts it.

Words are like charms, she realizes. If said often enough, they will make it so

You will live in me always. Your words, your heart, your soul are all part of me. My heart is full of your memories. Thank you for the gift of your life. I will never forget you.

I am so suggestible. When Chatty asks if I am hungry, I say, I could be. I would try to become the woman you wanted without even knowing I was trying. As it is, I am barely the woman I am.

If her history has taught her anything it's that hate, not love, is the more powerful of the two emotions. Anyway

Words and magic are two powerful forces that can change the world.

Choices are powerful things. In fact, they're more powerful than most things.

Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had this power.