Quotes About Influence

She wished that she had been content with one of the seats at the back. But Jane Hubbard had insisted on the front row. She always had a front-row seat at witch dances in Africa, and the thing had become a habit.

Lady Kimbuck gave tongue. She was Lord Evenwood's sister. She spent a very happy widowhood interfering in the affairs of the various branches of her family.

The cheers of the multitude frequently act like a powerful drug upon young gentlemen with inferiority complexes.

It was perfectly amazing, the way her mere presence seemed to wipe speech from my lips—and mine, for that matter, from hers. It began to look as if our married life together would be rather like twenty years among the Trappist monks.

perceived the numbing truth that we human beings are merely as many pieces in a jig-saw puzzle and that our every movement affects the fortunes of some other piece. Just so, faintly at first and taking shape by degrees, must the germ of civic spirit have come to Prehistoric Man. We are all individualists till we wake up.

Spode, also, seemed a good deal

I think that you would find a steady married man an improvement on these wild, flower-pot-throwing bachelors. If it would help to influence your decision, I may say that my bride-to-be is Miss Halliday, probably the finest library-cataloguist in the United Kingdom.

But my words become stained with your love. You occupy everything, you occupy everything.

You pervade everything, you, pervade everything.

Pero se van tiñendo con tu amor mis palabras. Todo lo ocupas tú, todo lo ocupas.

Painting is stronger than me, it makes me do it's bidding.

Good artists copy; great artists steal.

Art is theft.

The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal.

Gran Bretaña había aprendido, cuatro años después de su primera invasión, que para colonizar al Virreinato del Río de la Plata no hacían falta ni su escuadra ni sus soldados. Bastaba con dominar su comercio. Pocos años más tarde acentuaría su influencia a través del endeudamiento, para lo que contaría con la complicidad de quien fuera nuestro primer presidente. Estrategia de las grandes potencias que se perpetúa hasta hoy.

Un hombre grande y terrible concibió la colosal tentativa de la alianza entre las Repúblicas recién nacidas, y era el único capaz de encaminarla a su arduo fin. Monteagudo fue ese hombre. Muerto él, la idea de la Confederación Americana que había brotado en su poderoso cerebro se desvirtuó por sí sola".

En uno de los films de James Bond, El mañana nunca muere, el villano Elliot Carver le dice: "Ambos somos hombres de acción, señor Bond, pero su era se está acabando. Las palabras son las nuevas armas. Los satélites, la nueva artillería".

In the person you care for, you often see parts of the person you wish you were.

Nothing ever happens to just one person.

The weapons are held to the head of all the world, and the world behaves. No one has an advantage; no one can win.

The deeper the Self-realization of a man, the more he influences the whole universe by his subtle spiritual vibrations, and the less he himself is affected by the phenomenal flux.

A man will be beloved if, possessed with great power, he still does not make himself feared.

Television has a satanic influence.

Moral: Good and positive suggestions should instruct the sensitive ears of children. Their early ideas long remain sharply etched." Master