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Quotes About Influence

Yeah. He aint here to say though, is he? I dont know. Someways I think he'll always have a say.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Concentrated populations of the deranged assume certain powers. It has an unsettling effect. You spend some time in a nuthouse and you'll see.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Is history about money?
~ Cormac McCarthy
Ci sono quattro cose che possono distruggere il mondo, disse. Le donne, il whisky, i soldi e i negri.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Sheddan said once that having read a few dozen books in common was more binding than blood.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Words are things.
~ Cormac McCarthy
One could even say that what endows any thing with significance is solely the history in which it has participated. Yet wherein does that history lie?
~ Cormac McCarthy
He said that journeys involving the company of the dead were notorious for their difficulty but that in truth every journey was so accompanied. He said that in his opinion it was imprudent to suppose that the dead have no power to act in the world, for their power is great and their influence often most weighty with just those who suspect it least.
~ Cormac McCarthy
There's some things you dont decide. Decidin had nothin to do with it.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Raramente o mal se mostra de imediato. A princípio, é pouco mais que um sussurro. Um olhar. Uma traição. Mas logo cresce e cria raízes, mesmo que imperceptível, despercebido.
~ Cornelia Funke
Words are immortal - Elinor
~ Cornelia Funke
The written word is a powerful thing, you have to be careful with it. - Silvertongue
~ Cornelia Funke
Power. Like wine when you have it. Like poison when you lose it.
~ Cornelia Funke
You can't expect the wolf to turn vegetarian because of one Pup.
~ Cornelia Funke
Power. Intoxicating. Like a fine wine.
~ Cornelia Funke
Guilt is a strong motivator, sometimes even stronger than love.
~ Cornelia Funke
only the powerful were hated, and that was what he was meant to be in this world. Powerful.
~ Cornelia Funke
The written word is a powerful thing, you have to be careful with it.
~ Cornelia Funke
But they woke him with words, their cruel, bright weapons. T. H. White, The Book of Merlin
~ Cornelia Funke
Humans so liked to choose the wrong men as their leaders.
~ Cornelia Funke
He's going to serve you up to the Adderhead on a platter made of ink. Resist it! It's not a pleasant feeling to read the words that guide your actions. No one knows that better than I do, but they didn't come true for me either. They only have as much power as you give them.
~ Cornelia Funke
Resa stroked the dried flower-heads. 'They obey you,' she said to the Prince, when the women had gone again. 'Why?' 'Oh, because they've chosen me as their leader,' replied the Prince. 'And because I'm a very good knife-thrower.
~ Cornelia Funke
The fact is, almost everything you do is collaborative. Somewhere out there, someone else had a hand it it.
~ Cory Doctorow
Everything good in the world comes from the efforts of people who came before us.
~ Cory Doctorow