Quotes About Influence

Her power was the brilliance of her charm and it had brought her to where she was now. I had the feeling that neither her wife nor her son could diminish it. That quality must have condemned her to an ice-cold loneliness.

Non c'è nessuno che riesce a fuggire del tutto dall'incantesimo dell'infanzia.

Good tea is eloquent enough, it turns out, to change a person's mind. Nakajima

For the first time, I saw the difference we made by being there for people over the years, in the background of their lives.

This town breathes in all the universes that people in this city have in their heads

Truly great people emit a light that warms the hearts of those around them.

Truly great people emit a light that warms the hearts of those around them. When that light has been put out, a heavy shadow of despair descends. Perhaps Eriko's was only a minor kind of greatness, but her light was sorely missed.

I grandi personaggi nel loro semplice esistere emettono luce e rischiarano lo spirito di chi sta loro accanto. Così, quando si spengono, inevitabilmente scende un'ombra pesante.

Truly great people emit a light that warms the hearts of those around them. When that light has been put out, a heavy shadow of despair descends.

There have been only two geniuses in the world, Willie Mays and Willie Shakespeare. But, darling, I think you'd better put Shakespeare first.

An intelligence completely dissociated from the physical, or at least an impression of it, was a strange, curiously limited and almost perverse thing, and the precise form that your physicality took had a profound, in some ways defining influence on your personality.

Reason shapes the future, but superstition infects the present.

Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.

On Painting Rats, and the Glorification of Them. They exist without permission. They are hated, hunted and persecuted. They live in quiet desperation amongst the filth. And yet they are capable of bringing entire civilizations to their knees. If you are dirty, insignificant, and unloved then rats are the ultimate role model.

They exist without permission. They are hated, hunted and persecuted. They live in quiet desperation amongst the filth. And yet they are capable of bringing entire civilisations to their knees. If you are dirty, insignificant and unloved then rats are the ultimate role model.

They say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time

I mean, they say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time.

My mum is my beauty icon, because she represents what I think beauty is.

Only a handful of men and women leave an imprint on the conscience of a nation and on the history that they helped shape, ...

Politics didn't lead me to working people. Working people led me into politics.

Nothing can stand in the way of the power of millions of voices calling for change.

One voice can change a room, and if one voice can change a room, then it can change a city, and if it can change a city, it can change a state, and if it change a state, it can change a nation, and if it can change a nation, it can change the world. Your voice can change the world.

Do not humiliate or ridicule a person in order to persuade him to change

But one thing we do know for certain – for years afterwards, when asked who was the greatest Englishman he had ever met, Ibn Saud would answer without hesitation: 'Shakespear!' 1