Quotes About Influence

Our compliance is our choice. No one can control someone else (unless the person being controlled allows it). No one controls you—unless you allow that control. Sure, she can put the screws to your head, but ultimately what you do within the circumstances of your life is dependent on what you allow and how much you are willing to sacrifice to have things your own way or to win approval.

What you believe will make a difference in the difference you make.

You are responsible for the way your life turns out, not chance, not someone else.

You can't protect everyone; you can't stop all the wrong; you can't control someone else.

Man has created God in his image which gives him dominance over everything else: Birds, lions, trees and women.

And Marlowe, Webster, Fletcher, Ben, Whose fire-hearts sowed our furrows when The world was worthy of such men.

What I do And what I dream include thee, as the wine Must taste of its own grapes. And when I sue God for myself, He hears that name of thine, And sees within my eyes the tears of two.

Our Balzac should be flattered beyond measure by my thinking of him at all. Which I did, but of you more.

Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, still better known to the world as Elizabeth Barrett Browning, was born on March 6, 1806, the eldest child of Edward and Mary Moulton Barrett

She had a great horror of submitting herself to mesmeric influences. She recognised that very many of the supposed revelations of the spirits were trivial, perhaps false; but to the fact that communications did exist she adhered constantly.

Plainly 'Jane Eyre' was by a woman.

Chancing to express his admiration of them to Mr. Kenyon, who had been his friend since 1839 and his father's school-fellow in years long distant, Mr. Browning was urged by him to write to Miss Barrett himself, and tell her of his pleasure in her work.

Flush has grown an absolute monarch and barks one distracted when he wants a door opened. Robert spoils him, I think.

Lindy-hop could go back to being just a social thing. But where she belonged in life After the Meteor, was here. Here, she made a difference. Sprained ankle and all.

Of the things that bind the universe together, gravity is not particularly strong a force, as it happens. It just…never stops reaching. That always sort of made me feel good about gravity. It's always looking for the next rock, always something down a breaker in space-time, whipping something in a long, arcing curve around something else. Gravity doesn't give up. It keeps on trucking.

Baines jerked his hands as if tugging reins; the web of light around Will tightened. Will staggered woodenly like jagged marionette.

She'll want to own whomever she names.

I've had indications that there are colonies at work in the world that I cannot even locate, let alone control. And some of them are doing damage.

He had absolutely no objection to using his partner's brooding charisma as a weapon.

Leah and I connect, and we have since she was barely old enough to grab my finger and stare deeply into my eyes. There's something about her that reminds me of Nell, come to think of it. Wide-eyed wonder and a whim of carbon steel.

Because a girl would never have made it here without knowing somebody, right?

The atmosphere of money enfolded Peese like cling film when he entered Jane's apartment. It coated his skin, thick and silken; it slid down his throat like buttermilk. It intimidated. It was meant to.

Fyodor Stephanovich dominated the room with the careless ease that one would expect of a Prince among wolves.

The whole world is a weapon.