Quotes About Influence

That was the trouble with Mrs. Hepplewhite's kindness. Once let loose it was like a roaring cataract and one had to be very strong to stand against the current and live.

Our gaze changes all that it falls upon. 

It can fuck you up, if you meet the most important person in your life when you're sixteen, seventeen. You imprint on them, and you never escape from it. That's what happened to me.

The stain of place hangs on not as a birthright but as a sort of artifice, a bit of cosmetic.

Some men define themselves by women although they appear to believe it is quite the opposite; to believe that it is she, rather than themselves, who is being filed away, tagged, named at last like a quivering cell under a microscope.

Gustav's art isn't political," I said. "You of all people should know that." "All art is political. You of all people should know that.

Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled, "This could change your life." —Helen Exley

Well, let me tell you something, darling: money, elite social status and the power they confer are every bit as wonderful as they're cracked up to be.

One biographer summed up Lyell's influence on Darwin as follows: "Without Lyell there would have been no Darwin." Darwin himself, after publishing his account of the voyage of the Beagle and also a volume on coral reefs, wrote, "I always feel as if my books came half out of Lyell's brains.

One weedy species," the pair observed, "has unwittingly achieved the ability to directly affect its own fate and that of most of the other species on this planet.

Lyell became something of a celebrity—the Steven Pinker of his generation—and

There is nothing harder, at moments, than talking to someone who has all the power of silence.

Those with power never willingly concede their control.

No generation is ever spontaneous. We are none of us our own kind.

Do not trust an architect: he will always try to talk you into an atrium.

By clearly emphasizing all that was lacking in others, by mapping and raising to an art form the catalog of their flaws, Veblen's mother had inversely punched out a template for an ideal human being, and it was the unspoken assumption that Veblen would aspire to this template with all her might.

Veblen, you may not know it now, but marriage affects everything that happens to you. Your mate becomes the mirror in which you see yourself. If he doesn't see you as a beautiful pearl, you'll wither.

See? You're using the stoic glacier method." "Remind me, what's the stoic glacier method?" "It's the slow process of shaping someone's behavior by force of one's own personal stoicism.

At the beginning of our relationship, my heart pounded so loudly whenever I stood near him. He had an effect on me that no aspiring vicar should have on a young woman.

If you take a man by surprise, and behave with sufficient arrogance, he will generally do what you ask. -Emerson

I have a pretty expanded view of what art is. I include pop music and even some sports.

I only have one tip on how to help someone else live a better life. Get a life of your own and show them how it's done!

Still, Mrs Potts wasn't going to let the girl just leave - not if she could help it. And having lived with a stubborn individual for quite some time, she knew that sometimes the best way to make people do what they didn't want to do was to give them the chance to do it on their own terms.

Forget you?" Bella said in disbelief "How could i ever? Everything i am is because of you