Quotes About Influence

Man does not create gods, in spite of appearances. The times, the age, impose them on him. (tr. by Joanna Kilmartin and Steve Cox)

Zeev Sternhell has conclusively demonstrated that nearly all the ideas found in fascism and nazism first appeared in France.

A largo plazo, el «Imperio español», el primer imperio mundial en el que nunca se ponía el sol, se convirtió en un mero tópico de la historia mundial, un asunto generalmente asumido debido a su larga duración. Pero una historia de expansión que duró más de mil años y que atañe a una parte muy considerable del mundo no es un asunto banal, sino algo realmente extraordinario, uno de los hitos más grandes de la historia universal.

El liberalismo español arranca en los años 1809 y 1810. Fue uno de los primeros en desarrollarse en el siglo XIX y durante las siguientes décadas ejerció una influencia considerable en Europa e Hispanoamérica.

En un primer momento, el líder principal de la coalición antihitleriana fue Winston Churchill, quien siempre confesó que, de haber sido un ciudadano español, habría apoyado a Franco.

Everybody who is anybody in the Philippines today, except for a few Spanish mestizos, has Chinese ancestors.

Never, ever go near power. Don't become friends with anyone who has real power. It's dangerous.

even a drop of happiness could color a whole well of misery.

The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are. —C. S. Lewis, Selected Literary Essays

Father bestows identity. Mother bestows self-worth.

Christianity has done more to elevate the status of women than any other movement in history.

The best author is a dead author, because he's out of your way and you own the play. Take what he has given you and use it for what you need.

Get out of here, Antonia. Now." There was no real force behind the command, as if only a part of him meant it.

Love truly is the most transformative power in heaven and on earth.

Interaction modifies the world and this, in turn, modifies us and our understanding of the world.

We neither have to adopt the literal versions of rebirth presented by religious tradition nor fall into the extreme of regarding death as annihilation. Regardless of what we believe, our actions will reverberate beyond our deaths. Irrespective of our personal survival, the legacy of our thoughts, words, and deeeds will continue through the impressions we leave behind in the lives of those we have influenced or touched in any way.

Look, whatever hayseed laws you pass in Who-Knows-What - Hell-Knows-Where. Don't amount to a hill of beans back here, as your type might say.

The mass of people was ignorant, driven by fashions, fads, and the tongues of orators...

The past is altered, constantly, by our actions in the present.

The public could be made to want anything, if it were sold to them the right way. But one thing the public did seem to want in 1880 was to emulate high society and the way high society lived. Very well. The Dakota would provide such emulation.

Patrick actually used to be popular before Sam bought him some good music.

She said that by introducing me to all these great things, Mary Elizabeth gained a "superior position" that she wouldn't need if she was confident about herself. She also said that people who try to control situations all the time are afraid that if they don't, nothing will work out the way they want.

Patrick said that the problem was that since everything has happened already, it makes it hard to break new ground. Nobody can be as big as the Beatles because the Beatles already gave it a "context." The reason they were so big is that they had no one to compare themselves with, so the sky was the limit.

Patrick used to be popular, until Sam bought him some good music.