Quotes About Influence

Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short in all management of human affairs.

The leader must be an actor.

To some degree it matters who's in office, but it matters more how much pressure they're under from the public.

The United States is using its war on drugs as an excuse to expand its control over Latin America.

Who are you to end a war? I am here to tell you - who are you not to?

A king can stand people's fighting but he can't last long if people start thinking.

The notion that the press was used in the [first Iraq] war is incorrect. The press wanted to be used. It saw itself as part of the war effort.

'Star Wars' hasn't changed my life at all.

Do you know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?

An army abroad is of little use unless there are prudent counsels at home. [Lat., Parvi enim sunt foris arma, nisi est consilium domi.]

I sat on cushioned otter-skin: My word was law from Ith to Emain, And shook at Invar Amargin The hearts of the world-troubling seamen, And drove tumult and war away.

Peace, Inc. is sometimes as worrying as War, Inc. It's a way of managing public anger. We're all being managed, and we don't even know it.

Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.

Justice itself tends to be corrupted by political passion.

It's easy to be a cardinal when your cousin is the pope.

Gracie: You have an unusual house. Have you lived here long? Bobby Tom: A couple of years. I don't much like it myself, but the architect is real proud of it. She calls it urban Stone Age with a Japanese Tahitian influence. I sort of just call it ugly.

I love you guilty. It makes it easier for me to wrap you around my finger.

She realized he looked more at home sitting at her desk than she did. How did he manage it? Somehow, he found a way to mark whatever space he occupied. He might as well lift his leg when he walked into a room.

ne možeš u?initi ništa zna?ajno u svijetu ukoliko trošiš vrijeme na kritiziranje drugih zato što ne izgledaju ili se ne ponašaju onako kako ti misliš da bi trebali.

Years ago she had discovered that she could control her relationships with heterosexual men far better by playing the sexy siren than the blushing ingenue. Being the sexual aggressor put her subtly in charge. She was the one who defined the rules of the game instead of the man, and when she sent her suitor on his way, he assumed it was because he didn't measure up to all the other men in her life.

Piper wasn't used to anyone intimidating her, but being in the presence of Phoebe Calebow was being in the presence of greatness.

any good deed, no matter how small, could keep multiplying until it had changed the whole world forever for the better.

If only she were one of those sublimely mysterious women who could control a man with the flicker of an eyelash or a single smoldering glance.

If I could put my brain in her body, the world would be mine for the taking.