Quotes About Influence

It is in the nature of things that the man should be identified with the company in which history finds him.

I did not know that bureaucracy could send its claws into our very coffins

I should immensely like to know what is the potent charm wielded by society to keep people prisoner from nine every evening till two or three in the morning, and force them to be so lavish alike of strength and money. When I longed for it, I had no idea of the separations it brought about, or its overmastering spell. But, then, I forget, it is Paris which does it all.

There is still a way to harmonize all interests," said Solonet, uttering this sentence in a high falsetto tone, which silenced the other three and drew their eyes and their attention upon himself. This young man was not unlike a skilful coachman who holds the reins of four horses, and amuses himself by first exciting his animals and then subduing them.

a mere nothing in your eyes, though three times the dowry of an archduchess of Austria. Bonaparte received only two hundred and fifty thousand francs with Maria-Louisa." "Maria-Louisa was the ruin of Bonaparte," muttered Mathias.

Papa, me demanda-t-il, les riches sont les plus forts en ce monde ? – Oui, Ilioucha, il n'y a pas plus puissant que le riche.

He was born to be a senator. He never said anything important, and he always said it sonorously.

Ojiisan says if you want to understand a people, look at their language. The words write the history, not the other way around.

I truly believe that the ultimate measure of one's success in life is not what position you have occupied or how much money you have, but what kind of person you have become, what difference you have made to the people around you.

Literature endures like the universal spirit, And its breath becomes a part of the vitals of all men.

he would dare to transform China and make it great. He would build his own Great Walls.

I thought, well of course, Kinsey absolutely adored teaching. He was a wonderful teacher. So these kids really inspired me. So that was a clue I hung onto. He loved young people, he absolutely loved them. And he loved teaching them and trying to help them.

Before 'Schindler's List ' I wouldn't have believed movies had a lot of power for social change.

We've always described our sound as a bit more guitar driven than normal pop music. Kind of Pink in a boy band form. We've heard a few people say that so now we use it. I think Pink is amazing person to be compared to.

Power brings its own legitimacy.

He got Alice, the way we did, or maybe even more so than us. He made her more confident, funnier, smarter. He brought out all the things that were there already and let her be fully herself, so she seemed to shine with this inner light.

She was a far better mother when she had an audience.

But I feel ugly, because one man said it was so, and that made it so. It's pathetic.

When you divorce someone, you divorce their whole family, Madeline had told her once.

Cecilia had noticed that beautiful woman held themselves differently; they swayed like palm trees in the breeze of all that attention. Cecilia wanted her daughters to run and stride and stomp. She didn't want Polly to bloody sway.

How do you make a man do something without nagging?" "That," said Madeline, "is the billion-dollar question.

He was a good man, but they brought out something terrible in each other, like allergic reactions.

Didn't the stupid man realize that he no longer had the power to send anyone to their room?

She looked at her nine guests, all of whom had their eyes obediently closed as they waited her instructions. Their destinies were in her hands. She was going to change them not just temporarily, but forever.