Quotes About Influence

Darnley, who, like Banquo's ghost, seemed to play a much more effective part in Scottish politics once he was dead than when he was alive.

Like her marriage, Marie Antoinette's death was a political decision.

Looking without passion is always a good plan where history is concerned. But is it really possible with regard to the career and character of Marie Antoinette?

As ever in a crisis, Marie Antoinette showed herself the forceful one who nonetheless could not bring herself finally to impose her will.

Picasso is a character that has pursued me for a long time and I always rejected. He deserves a lot of respect because I am from Malaga, and I was born four blocks from where he was born.

State = political society + civil society, in other words hegemony protected by the armor of coercion.

All men are intellectuals, but not all men have in society the function of intellectuals

Will your world die with you, the old life you remade in your way? Have the anvils and crucibles of your soul been working for dust and wind?

But he didn't have to invoke her, she was a constant, secret presence in his memory

He continued to wait as if the force of his obstinacy would influence Judith's actions and will.

He is summoned not by her desire but by the fact of her existence.

Princes should have more to fear from historians than have ugly women from great painters.

He who holds me by a thread is not strong; the thread is strong.

we're a southern people, Pereira, and we obey whoever shouts the loudest and gives the orders.

originally we were Lusitanians, and then came the Romans and the Celts, and then came the Arabs, so what sort of race are we Portuguese in a position to celebrate?

I got to grow up with a mother who taught me to believe in me.

concluded from its surveys that in essence what you believe by the time you are thirteen is what you will die believing.

A big majority of people do not feel suffocation on having a negative person around own self as an associate because they themselves are no lesser toxic than him/her.

A brigand can also be portrayed publicly as a legend and those who don't understand their game plan easily extend the supporting hand to them.

A child who is very close to own father is likely to grow up as a better person for the nation and the world than a kid who is too close to own mother.

A leader is one who does not care about his rank and role but remains always responsive to lead, shoulder responsibility, and achieve the goal in such a way that everyone, in and outside the team, respects him for touching their revered souls.

A liar has to hire the bluffers to build the crowd and make them raise slogan and clap loud in the favour of his speech and seeing all this, the duffers join them as his supporters.

A majority of people don't write or say their thoughts with intent to motivate but to get only praise for oneself and that's the reason as why they don't inspire not even one person.

A man who has the loads of money can easily attract to have a lot of honey.