Quotes About Influence

Do not offend one power to attain the favor of another.

The Attolians liked to point out with a snicker that there was no sign anywhere of the king's hand at work.

And she had the most appealing of feminine virtues, especially in a queen. She's easily led.

Sometimes, if you want to change a man's mind, you have to change the mind of the man next to him first." ? Megan Whalen Turner, The King of Attolia

Jack knew how to make women fall in love with him, but that didn't exactly qualify him as a guidance counselor.

It was maddening how your best friend could twist the knobs inside of you so much that it hurt.

Daughters. They could cut you with a look.

What Mal wanted, more than anything, was to be just like her mother. Exactly like her.

A little education, Eliza reckoned, could sometimes be more dangerous than no education at all.

The courts have always attracted gawkers, just as the church has. People are fascinated by the collision of the individual with a force that has the power to convey life or death, liberty or bondage, riches or poverty. Sometimes they had a vested interest in one side or the other, but often it was just the process itself that drew them.

She radiated confidence, and poise, and a brightness that was hard to ignore. Josh felt like the luckiest guy in the world when he entered her orbit. By then, she was already popular on Instagram. She had several hundred thousand followers and was making a name for herself online.

Advertisers loved her, brands were eager to work with her. She was entirely real and that was hard to come by online. Where the whole world looked fake, she wasn't.

Celebrities?" "They're the famous people of this world. They're mostly actors, singers, musicians. 'Stars,' we call them. Like... instead of the stars we look up to in the sky, they're the people we look up to.

I've never said it to his face, but sometimes he can be a little controlling. He tries to tell me what to wear, how to do my hair, that I'm too loud sometimes.

There were still too many people who were afraid of a technology that eluded them, still more who would never have access and resented and feared it in equal measures. Mobilize those groups just once, find a demagogue-and there always were demagogues-and the nets would find themselves destroyed.

I think the difference is not in the man, but how many stand behind him. I think that change will truly come when their combined fists are bigger than a single mighty one.

A codependent person is one who has let another person's behavior affect him or her, and who is obsessed with controlling that person's behavior.

We do not lead others into the Light by stepping into the darkness with them.

A codependent person is one who has let another person's behavior affect him or her, and who is obsessed with controlling that person's behavior.

Whatever we try to control does have control over us and our life.

I am not a teacher, but an awakener. —ROBERT FROST

When we attempt to control people and things that we have no business controlling, we are controlled. We forfeit our power to think, feel, and act in accordance with our best interests. We frequently lose control of ourselves. Often, we are being controlled not just by people but by diseases such as alcoholism, eating disorders, and compulsive gambling.

When we attempt to control people and things that we have no business controlling, we are controlled.

No amount of control will effect a permanent or desirable change in another person. We can sometimes do things that increase the probability that people will want to change, but we can't even guarantee or control that. And