Quotes About Influence

Their fate rested entirely on me. I could save them by telling the truth. I could destroy them by lying. No one should have that much power.

When you drop a pebble into a pond, ripples spread out, changing all the water in the pool. The ripples hit the shore and rebound, bumping into one another, breaking each other apart. In some small way, the pond is never the same again.

I am what you made me

Of course, the politicians, dictators, and warmongers weren't happy, but their voices, which had always seemed so loud and intimidating, were suddenly insignificant. The emperor not only had no clothes, turns out he had no testicles either. The

Was I to blame for bringing Brew out of his shell and exposing him to all the toxic things the rest of us carry in our souls?

Suddenly, Tara's accomplishment was clear. She had lined up allies among the school's various groups and got them all to work together for probably the first time in the school's history. She was like a master builder who could bend materials like stone and steel and clay to her will... except her materials were flesh and spirit.

I must be doing something right if the crazies think I'm as powerful as the Antichrist.

I almost told her everything right then. I wanted to tell her about the Wolves, and how I was supposed to hate them, but when you spend your days with evil, some of it is bound to soak into your clothes, like cigar smoke in a closed room.

And why? Because of words? Words don't hurt you. Which is one of the hugest criminal lies perpetrated by adults against children in this world. Because words hurt more than any physical pain.

Funny how morality, which always seems so black and white can be influenced so completely by what you were raised to believe.

Supongo que el que lleva la antorcha es también el que proyecta la sombra más oscura

whoever holds the torch casts the darkest shadow.

But... don't we get a say? Actually, said Cirrus, no.

You know, he said, his voice making me feel cold in spite of the heat, this city can get ahold of you and pull you back no matter how hard you try to climb out. Like a grave.

Setting an example presupposes that someone will be left to learn from it. It's pointless when there's no one to set an example for.

The problem with setting out to change the world was that you were never the only one. It was an endless tug-of-war with powerful players pulling—not just against you, but in every direction—so that whatever you did, even if you made progress against all those vectors, at some point you were bound to go sideways.

He wants to tell her, but she's always so busy - and you don't just go to somebody and say, I'm a better person because you're in my head

People are vessels, Jeri had said to her. The hold whatever's poured into them.

No puedes dejar tu huella sin cribar unos cuantos egos por el camino

Language secretly pushes and prods every one of us in hundreds of directions we don't see, until the only way to be careful with your words is to never speak.

Respect borne of fear is not the same as respect borne of love. One passes with you to the grave, the other flourishes after your departure.

It's out of my hands. Then put it back in your hands!

A scythe doesn't have to follow through on a threat for it to be effective.

Damisch Control