Quotes About Influence

my parents are very good at bribery.

is any history really all that ancient?...Doesn't every moment from the past affect the present?

Cleopatra breathed my air,' Katherine muttered. 'She's delirious!' Chip said. 'No, she's right,' Alex said. 'Haven't you heard that thing about how, at any given moment, at least one atom of the air in your lungs was probably once in Cleopatra's lungs? Or George Washington's or Albert Einstein's or Martin Luther King's, or whoever you want to pick from history?

Ah, but is any history really all that ancient?' Second asked. 'Doesn't every moment from the past affect the present?' This man was more annoying than any history teacher Jordan had ever had.

Åžimdi benden de güce ya da kendi karar?m? verme hakk?na sahip olmas?z?n yaln?zca bir öpücük veya tatl? bir f?s?lt?yla seviÅŸip, kad?nlarla erkeklerin yatak odalar?nda yapt?klar? diÄŸer tüm ÅŸeyleri yaparak ikna gücümü kullanmam m? isteniyordu? Maalesef bunu düÅŸünmek bile midemi buland?r?yordu. (syf. 50)

A single drop, though it falls into an ocean, will yet cause a ripple

Raistlin no habló de ello con nadie; había aprendido muy pronto que el conocimiento era poder, sobre todo si era el secreto de otra persona.

He says, You only came because I'm rich. I say that's how I desire him, with his money, that when I first saw him he was already in his car, in his money, so I can't say what I'd have done if he'd been different.

That people kill themselves because of my books won't stop me from writing. If people turned into reactionaries, political assholes after reading me, yes, that would stop me from writing, but not if they killed themselves.

Sono come voglio apparire, anche bella se gli altri lo vogliono, o carina, carina diciamo per i familiari, per loro e basta, insomma posso diventare come gli altri vogliono che sia. E credici. Anche credere che sono affascinante. Dal momento che lo credo, so anche farlo diventare vero agli occhi di chi mi vede e desidera che io sia di suo gusto.

She, who does not see herself, is thus seen, in others. Therein lies the omnipotence of this substance whereof she is made, without any particular ties.

Puedo convertirme en lo que quieran que sea. Y creerlo. Creer, además, que soy encantadora. En cuanto lo creo, se convierte en realidad para quienes me ven y desean que sea de una manera acorde con sus gustos, también lo sé.

One night (I was eleven years old at the time) he came and shook me from my sleep and announced, with the same grumbling laconism that he would have employed to predict a good harvest to his tenants, that I should rule the world.

aceptó un largo ensayo mío para la revista Les Lettres françaises que él dirigía en Buenos Aires con el apoyo de aquella admirable protectora de las letras que se llamó Victoria Ocampo.

Érico, porém, era daqueles que preferem receber seu destino de fora, fosse por orgulho, pois achava belo que o próprio céu se ocupasse de sua sorte, fosse por indolência, para não ter de responder nem pelo bem nem pelo mal que trazia em si.

In vain did Zeno remind him that the stars, though they influence our destinies, do not determine them; and that our lives are regulated by the heart, that fiery star palpitating in the dark of our bodies, suspended there in its cage of flesh and bone, as strong and mysterious as the stars above, and obeying laws more complicated than the laws which we ourselves make.

I am different when my nails are done. I am more dynamic. I gesticulate more, I am better at scaring my staff. I can indicate impatience by drumming on tabletops and I can wrap up a meeting with a few choice clatters.

Slasher Hathaway marks his territory by spending money. He might as well have pissed on her. It means nothing.

No one can make us feel any way unless we let them.

It was an interesting lesson in power. The only time you truly have it is when you genuinely don't care whether you have it or not.

because the past had shaped the present, it was more important than the present

Understand and be confident that each of us can make a difference by caring and acting in small as well as big ways.

If you as parents cut corners, your children will too. If you lie, they will too. If you spend all your money on yourselves and tithe no portion of it for charities, colleges, churches, synagogues, and civic causes, your children won't either. And if parents snicker at racial and gender jokes, another generation will pass on the poison adults still have not had the courage to snuff out.

Only people can undo what people have created.