Quotes About Influence

His work kept on living, like the watches on the wrists of dead soldiers. [Said of Marcel Proust]

Every newspaper editor owes tribute to the devil.

Todos los cerebros del mundo son impotentes contra cualquier estupidez que esté de moda.

Good writers borrow, great writers steal. —T. S. Eliot (but possibly stolen from Oscar Wilde)

And one day she said to me, 'For the rest of my life, it's the first thing they'll say about me when I leave the room.' And I remember thinking: Yes that's true, it will be. But we can't really do anything about what they say when we leave the room. We'll never be able to control that. And we shouldn't try. Our job is just to...well, be in the room while we're there, and try not to think too much about where we're not. Whatever room we happen to be in, just, be there.

ÖrneÄŸin çocuk gördüÄŸü bir ÅŸeyi istiyorsa ve bu da ona verilebilir bir ÅŸeyse, o zaman bu ÅŸeyi çocuÄŸa getirmektense çocuÄŸu ona götürmek daha doÄŸru olur: O, bu uygulamadan ya??na göre bir sonuç ç?kar?r ve bu sonucu ona esinlemenin baÅŸka hiçbir yolu yoktur.

On Central Park West, a woman searching for just the right superlative for the man who is guiding New York through the greatest disaster ever to hit an American city finally said, "He's not like a god; he is God." . . . He has achieved what political observers would have told you two weeks ago is impossible. He is not only respected, but revered. And not only revered

Hacía falta una fortaleza diferente para persuadir en vez de obligar. Talut se ganaba el respeto respetando a los demás.

that which is subtle can be more powerful.

I think we all have an obligation to teach children whatever we can

Crackpots have a vote like everyone else...enough crackpots could vote a mayor into office.

We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.

But if you seek counsel - from a priest, for example - you have selected that priest; and at bottom you already knew, more or less, what he would advise. In other words, to choose an adviser is nevertheless to commit oneself by that choice. (From: Existentialism is a Humanism)

La función del escritor consiste en obrar de modo que nadie pueda ignorar el mundo y que nadie pueda ante el mundo decirse inocente

Es kommt nicht darauf an, was man aus uns gemacht hat, sondern darauf, was wir aus dem machen, was man aus uns gemacht hat.

Un hombe es lo que hace, con lo que hicieron de el.

So the puppy (the future George III) won't be bewolfenbütteled, he says. I'll teach him whether to defy me. I say he shall be bewolfenbütteled, and like it! (George II on a proposal to marry his grandson to a princess of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Jean Plaidy.)

When you are a child you are yourself and you know and see everything prophetically. And then suddenly something happens and you stop being yourself; you become what others force you to be. You lose your wisdom and your soul.

Unhappily children do hurt flies

Why did you make me want to live? Why did you do that to me?

He says: 'it doesn't matter. What I know is that I could do this with you' — he makes a movement with his hands like a baker, kneading a loaf of bread — 'and afterwards you'd be different.

Dad used to say a story was worth writing if it made a difference to even one person. in Paper Daughter

Interesting people always have a past.

It may be that you are settled in another place it may be that you are happy but the one who took your heart wields final power.