Quotes About Influence

Girls do what their mothers tell them. Ladies do what society tells them. Women make up their own minds.

persuade Cassie to allow his mother to have more input. Cassie

Normalmente el destino pende de la oscilação de un péndulo.

When I get to the end of my life, I want to be able to look back and know that my being here made things better - Daphne

Hatred can be pushed aside, but it will always whisper in your ear.

The monsters don't run the gulags and the death camps and the reeducation centers. Regular people do. If they all had the balls to say no, the likes of Halsey, Zhou, or Stalin could never do it all on their own. Could they?

Let's revise the old adage for our times. All that it requires for evil to succeed is that enough lazy, stupid bastards believe everything they're told.

But such is power, you get it, then you do things with it. And then you have to live with it.

Politics were the ultimate frustration.

Sweetheart, I know you're an adult, but adults are like vampires. The older ones are much more powerful.

Broken: Never underestimate the power of a shared history.

women with a little bit of power can be much harder than men. Especially on other women. They have to distance themselves from the weakness of their sex. Yes?

The older sister could have been an overachiever who cast the kind of shadow in which nothing could grow.

As Kate had told her Oma the night before, there was no society more viciously controlled by rumor than your local police force.

How had her mother fallen in with these idiots?

The world stops for you when you're pretty. That's why women spend billions on crap for their faces. Their whole life, they're the center of attention. People want to be around them just because they're attractive. Their jokes are funnier. Their lives are better.

but I met him once and he's super

His voice had changed again. He liked this. He liked seeing her squirm. He was absorbing her fear like a succubus. Lydia heard an echo of the last words Paul Scott had ever spoken to her: Tell me you want this.

People don't take power. Somebody has to give it to them.

This seemed to be how dads taught their boys to be men, but there had to be a point, maybe early on, when they were able to hold their hands. One tiny one engulfed by one big one.

Sweetheart, I know you're an adult, but adults are like vampires. The older ones are much more powerful." Claire

Because I want you to stay at Rick's tonight." Lydia paused. "Because I said so." She paused again. "Sweetheart, I know you're an adult, but adults are like vampires. The older ones are much more powerful.

As perhaps the Russians would tell us, 'When money speaks, the truth keeps silent.

snorted coke because a boyfriend told her