Quotes About Influence

The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

I succeeded in using my charms like a weapon; I learned to play with other's hearts and to master my own desires.

She had been, in short, the inevitable result of everything she had been raised to be, frothy and naïve, a girl with barely a notion of her own universe, its rights and its monstrous wrongs.

You Shape Your Own Reality Every Day

It is not a good idea to call yourself a sardine in a family like Leo's, who will not let you forget it.

For whatever reasons—which had never interested him in his youth but which he sometimes pondered as an adult—the Angevin House had always taken Cain and Abel as role models.

And if Harry spun webs to make a spider proud, Eleanor could entangle archangels in her snares.

Music is powerful, my young friends," she said. "It can connect us to memories. It can influence our mood and our responses to problems we might face.

Having' something makes us think we can control it.

The practice of sympathetic joy is rooted in inner development. It's not a matter of learning techniques to "make friends and influence people." Instead, we build the foundations of our own happiness. When our own cup is full, we more easily share it with others.

I make no bones about the fact that India matters to me, and I would like to matter to India.

As I was typing this last sentence, somewhat hastily, my computer's spellcheck offered 'Brutish' as an acceptable substitute for 'British' rule in India!

we cannot blame the British for saddling us with this system, though it is their 'Mother of Parliaments' our forefathers sought to emulate. First of all, the British had no intention of imparting democracy to Indians; second, Indians freely chose the parliamentary system themselves in a Constituent Assembly.

Basic truth about the colonies, Heaslop. Any time there's trouble, you can put it down to books. Too many of the wrong ideas getting into the heads of the wrong sorts of people. If ever the Empire comes to ruin, Heaslop, mark my words, the British publisher will be to blame.

Whereas an Akbar might have used such technologies to fuse his diverse people together, the British used them to separate, classify and divide.

The press, in other words, was free, but some newspapers (the British-owned ones) were freer than others.

Empire was in many ways the vehicle for the extension of British social structures to the colonies they conquered.

The British in India were never more than 0.05  per  cent of the population.

lack of preference is itself a preference. To put the true leaders of the people on the same level as princes and pretenders and pimps is not virtuous but vicious.

Truly, these are among the most exciting days to be called beyond the church's walls, because God is releasing disciples into every industry and occupation.

It's a matter of respect for yourself, say's Antwon. Because if you act like it's okay, then nobody going to respect you, and you ain't even going to respect yourself, which is worse, 'cause it gives you, like, this smell in the streets where other people can tell that you're weak.

She'd never imagined that her vagina had the power to destabilize a whole country.

Language is a virus from outer space. WILLIAM BURROUGHS

The end of worship amongst men, is power. —Thomas Hobbes