Quotes About Influence

Power resides only where men believe it resides. [...] A shadow on the wall, yet shadows can kill. And ofttimes a very small man can cast a very large shadow.

A lion doesn't concern itself with the opinion of sheep.

Crowns do queer things to the heads beneath them.

When you know what a man wants you know who he is, and how to move him.

It all goes back and back," Tyrion thought, "to our mothers and fathers and theirs before them. We are puppets dancing on the strings of those who came before us, and one day our own children will take up our strings and dance in our steads.

Love is sweet, dearest Ned, but it cannot change a man's nature. -- Lyanna

A harp can be a dangerous as a sword, in the right hands.

Some battles are won with swords and spears, others with quills and ravens.

Tears aren't a woman's only weapon.

Power resides where men believe it resides. A very small man can cast a very large shadow.

Power resides where men believe it resides. No more and no less.

A book can be as dangerous as a sword in the right hands, said Haldon.

The day will come when you need them to respect you, even fear you a little. Laughter is poison to fear.

Give a thing a name and it will somehow come to be.

In King's Landing, there are two sorts of people. The players and the pieces… Every man's a piece to start with, and every maid as well. Even some who think they are players." Petyr Baelish

En las manos adecuadas, un libro puede ser tan peligroso como una espada.

It was never wise for a ruler to eschew the trappings of power, for power itself flows in no small measure from such trappings.

Shadows." The world seemed darker when he said it. "Every man who walks the earth casts a shadow on the world. Some are thin and weak, others long and dark.

The dwarf has played her like a set of pipes, and she is too deaf to hear the tune.

Words are wind, and the only good wind is that which fills our sails.

Power is a trick. It lies where we believe it lies.

You Westerosi are all the same. You sew some beast upon a scrap of silk, and suddenly you are all lions, or dragons, or eagles.

a very small man can cast a very large shadow.

When the gods are silent, lords and kings will make themselves heard.