Quotes About Influence

The idea that the president has the power to craft a new strategy both overstates his power and understates the power of reality crafted by those who came before him. We are all trapped in circumstances into which we were born and choices that were made for us.

One sometimes feels a guest of one's time and not a member of its household.

True music… must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time. My people are Americans. My time is today.

The world needs more good people in it, and my son will be a good person.

In my experience, Connor acted as if the word no meant nothing unless he was the one saying it.

never go into the Council room without a plan. You have to give them a range of possibilities, but if they discuss them too much, they'll never make a decision. Steer them toward the right choice and don't let them derail the train.

You're like a crazy cat lady, but you collect killers instead of fluffy cats." "I don't collect killers." "Yes, you do, and those who aren't killers turn into killers by the time you're done. You made Julie into a maniac. That child has more knives on her than a squad of the PAD. Christopher was the only stray who couldn't fight, and now it turns out he's a god of terror. Why am I not surprised?

Perhaps if you were less heavy-handed in your treatment of the guests you claim to honor and protect, your inn would have a higher rating." He did not. Oh yes, yes he did. "Perhaps if you trained the knights under your command to follow simple orders, your House would've reached greater prominence within your empire.

Of course, in Texas the history of Texas took up more space in the textbook than the entirety of the rest of Western Civilization combined.

Most people will do just about anything you tell them to do, if you act with authority, give them no choice, and accept the responsibility for their actions. It's kind of scary, isn't it?

He pulled me like a magnet. Every female instinct I had went into overdrive.

He owned their souls. They thought he was God. "When

when they give you a choice, it's a selection of handpicked possibilities they have prescreened. No matter what you decide, the core choice has already been made, and you weren't involved in it.

He was building his own castle, and for better or worse, the harpy wormed her way into his world and became its tower.

No strong ties to other Houses, no patrons of great influence. It wasn't unusual. Many smaller Houses preferred to operate independently, unattached to a larger family. Powerful Houses had powerful enemies, and when you allied yourself to one, you inherited their friends and their rivals.

A soul, if such a thing exists at all, doesn't filter into you at birth through your mother's umbilical cord. Souls come from the people who shape you as you grow.

I strive to menace," I said.

Woman wants control, man self-control .

What does it avail, one will say, that this man has so much talent, that he is so active therewith, and that he exerts thereby a useful influence over the community, thus having a great worth both in relation to his own happy condition and to the benefit of others, if he does not possess a good will?

The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.

The spirit of trade cannot coexist with war, and sooner or later this spirit dominates every people.

The outcome of an act commonly influences our judgment about its rightness, even though the former was uncertain, while the latter is certain.

The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.

I did not know then that words and music are more deadly than any spear.