Quotes About Influence

Magic," Martha whispered breathlessly, "is diplomacy. It isn't just saying the words. It's who says them, how he says them, and when he says them.

Weak people believe what is forced on them. Strong people what they wish to believe, forcing that to be real. What is the Autarch but a man who believes himself Autarch and makes others believe by the strength of it?

Yours is a race of pawns," Tzadkiel told me. "You move forward only, unless we move you back to begin the game again. But not all the pieces on the board are pawns.

I don't think he hates in the way we understand it. Or for that matter, that he loves. He wants to manipulate everything he comes upon, to change it with his will. And since tearing down is easier than building, that's what he does most often.

If educated men have sometimes thought me, if not their equal, at least one whose company did not shame them, that is owing solely to Thecla: the Thecla I remember, the Thecla who lives in me, and the four books.

into my pocket. We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges.

Photographers sometimes take pictures of each other; occasionally they take pictures of each other at work; more usually they take photographs - or versions - of each other's work. Consciously or not they are constantly in dialogue with their contemporaries and predecessors.

William has learned in his bones that survival takes the form of other people. They must know you, and for that to happen you must know them. Speak with them, charm them, and remember them.

Well is it said that neither love nor power Admit a rival, even for an hour.

For thus men seyth, That on thenketh the beere, But al another thenketh his ledere.

Con qué rapidez invade la piedad los corazones nobles!

Nadie que esté bajo la influencia de la bebida sabe guardar un secreto: esto es indiscutible.

The story of the past generation has been that the right has won politically and the left has won culturally.

To understand a man, Napoleon said, you need to know how the world looked when he was twenty.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

If any religion had a chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam.

You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.

But to admire a strong person and to live under that strong person's thumb are two different things.

A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.

Galatea never does quite like Pygmalion: his relation to her is too godlike to be altogether agreeable.

A book is like a child: it is easier to bring it into the world than to control it when it is launched there.

All professions are conspiracies against the laity.

When you vote, you only change the names of the cabinet. When you shoot, you pull down governments, inaugurate new epochs, abolish old orders and set up new.

MRS PEARCE. Mr Higgins: youre tempting the girl. It's not right. She should think of the future. HIGGINS. At her age! Nonsense! Time enough to think of the future when you havnt any future to think of.