Quotes About Influence

Small countries have to come to terms with great ones. Hitler had the power; thus some of his demands had to be accepted.

I declare That later on, Even in an age unlike our own, Someone will remember who we are.

Individuals within the institution must act as if the decision has been made for it to be made. If they do not, it has not. A

A structure can enable promotion. And if you challenge those structures, you are the one who becomes self-promotional.

Becoming the race person means you are the one who is turned to when race turns up. The very fact of your existence can allow others not to turn up.

The system that supports you can also be used to control you

The person following is never in control, which she knows full well and which is exactly why she does it.

Sometimes the apple rolls very far from the tree.

the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That's the unfinished business between us. because love, love is never finished.

Some people come into your life and leave a mark.

So there you have it--my sorry tale. That's how something I though I controlled ended up controlling me.

The past did affect the present and the future, in ways you could see and a million ones you couldn't. Time wasn't a thing you could divide easily; there was no defined middle or beginning or end. I could pretend to leave the past behind, but it would not leave me.

The choices you make now, the people you surround yourself with, they all have the potential to affect your life, even who you are, forever.

I watched my mother do what she did best, and realized there would never be a way to cut myself from her entirely. No matter how strong or weak I was, she was a part of me, as crucial as my own heart. I would never be strong enough, in all my life, to do without her.

Whenever you made a choice, especially one you'd been resisting, it always affected everything else, some in big ways, like a tremor beneath your feet, others in so tiny a shift you hardly noticed a change at all. But it was happening.

It's funny how someone's perception of you can be formed without you even knowing it.

Your actions is like a raindrop; it falls into the pond making ripples and then its over...

Macon: "It's true. And if that doesn't work, use the Jedi Mind Trick. But only if you really have to." Halley: "The what?" Macon: "The Jedi Mind Trick." He looked at me. "Didn't you ever see Star Wars?

Like it takes so little not only to change something, but to make you forget the way it once was, as well.

She's a baby, Maggie told me. Babies wear pastels. Says who? I asked. ... Society. The same society, I might add, that dictates that little girls should always be sugar and spice and everything nice, which engourages them to not be assertive. And that, in turn, then leads to low self-esteem, which can lead to eating disorders and increased tolerance and acceptance of domestic, sexual, and substance abuse.

Sometimes, you have to manufacture your own history. Give fate a push, so to speak.

It's funny how two people can grow up in the same town, go to the same school, have the same friends, and end up so totally different. Family, or lack of it, counts for more than you'd think.

Because anyone that can make you feel that bad about yourself is toxic.

You can make your life, or life can make you. Was it really that simple of a choice?