Quotes About Influence

Washington is a city of important men and the women they married before they grew up.

You know, everything adds up. It's what I keep saying in my books and in Cosmo. If you do every little thing you can do in your own modest position, one thing leads to another. So do it and be it and write the letters and make the phone calls and get on with it.

Las personas que fueron tienen un inmenso poder sobre ti —tardarás cuarenta años en comprarte un abrigo rojo (y te lo pondrás solo una vez)—, mientras que las personas en las que se han convertido no tienen el más mínimo poder sobre ti.

I know what it is to be pushed in a direction you don't want to go, or one you're not ready for. People say they know what's best for you. Maybe sometimes it's true. But it doesn't matter if they keep pushing until they take your choices away.

I think those who have impact and influence over us are often unaware.

Words have magic. Spells and curses. Some of them, the best of them, once said change everything.

Anyone that has character leaves a mark on another. Would you like to leave the world without making a ripple?

Kissing Red must've killed off some of your brain cells, Ryder decided. You can tell a woman what to do---if you play it right---and maybe, maybe half the time she'd do it, or something close to it. That's a live woman. A dead one? I figure that's closer to zero.

If I can make you unhappy, then I can make you happy as well.

She stared at him. You'd be willing to change your life so dramatically? Ray and Stella Quinn changed my life.

Some women, he thought, had the power to turn a man in the opposite direction from what he wanted. It seemed his fate to run up against them. And, damn it, to care.

Politics. It's for idiots and bad actors.

Shut up. You Matter. That's it.

When a woman had eyes that big, that brown, that beautiful, she probably got whatever she wanted without saying a word.

Women change things. She glanced up at him. Only women? People then. But women? They alter universe just by being women. For better or worse? Depends on the woman, doesn't it? She smiled. And the prize, or the man, she's set her sights on.

He didn't expect to find her. I didn't expect him to find her. She makes a difference, in him, in the book.

What was the first song you learned to play?

He was a hero, and never to be forgotten. And today, as he would want, as must be done, a new leader comes.

acting because of them is.

There's no such thing as predestination or fate or destiny. Life is a series of choices and circumstance, action and the reaction, and results of other people's choices. Your father's illness influenced you to choose this position at this time. I think it was a loving and loyal choice, but it wasn't meant.

People like to say they've given somebody a choice when what they're really saying is 'do this my way.

Children give a house its personality, you know, more than its decorating. They leave their mark on it.

With great power comes great responsibility

You're the most elegant steamroller I've ever been flattened by.