Quotes About Influence

Those people who say that words have no power know nothing of the nature of words

Azok, akik szerint a szavaknak nincs hatalmuk, nincsenek tisztában a szavak természetével. A jól irányzott szavak véget vethetnek egy uralkodó rendszernek, vallást alapíthatnak vagy háborút indíthatnak. A szavak a hazugságok pásztorai, sorainkból a legjobbakat máglyára küldhetik.

A devil doesn't act through evil, but through weakness...

There was no denying that whores surrounded him. Not just the women on the flat screen, but the political whores who'd attended his meeting. He replayed his own conciliatory words and wondered whether he was one as well

You make yourself strong because it's expected of you. You become confident because someone beside you is unsure. You turn into the person others need you to be.

You can't exist in this world without leaving a piece of yourself behind.

All any of us wanted, really, was to know that we counted. That someone else's life would not have been as rich without us here.

I've always sort of wondered: If everyone else's opinion is what matters, then do you ever really have one of your own?

You'll tell yourself anything you have to, to pretend that you're still the one in control.

The music we listen to may not define who we are. But it's a damn good start.

I once heard someone on a bus say that this guy had gotten under her skin. And it struck me as a remarkable thought - that someone would affect you so deeply they'd always be a part of you.

To be truly popular, it has to look like something you are, when in reality, it's what you make yourself.

Parents aren't the people you come from. They're the people you want to be, when you grow up.

A dutiful mother is someone who follows every step her child makes...And a good mother is someone whose child wants to follow her.

We are all drowning slowly in the tide of our opinions, oblivious that we are taking on water every time we open our mouths.

You figured that the only way I'd be happy is if I did the things you thought would be best for me.

Parents aren't the people you come from. They're the people you want to be, when you grow up.

We are all, I suppose, beholden to our parents - the question is, how much?

But as he grew older, he learned that a word was a powerful thing. An insult didn't have to be shouted to bleed; a vow didn't have to be whispered to make you believe. Hold a thought in your head, and that was enough to change the actions of anyone and anything that crossed your path.

Fiction is like that, once it is released into the world: contagious, persistent. Like the contents of Pandora's box, a story that's freely given can't be contained anymore. It becomes infectious, spreading from the person who created it to the person who listens, and passes it on.

There were some people who hit your life so hard, they left a stain on your future.

Words, for all they were flimsy and invisible, had great strength. They could be fortified as a castle wall and sharp as a foil. They could bite, slap, shock, wound. But unlike deeds, words couldn't really help you. No promise ever rescued a person; it was the carrying-through of it that brought about salvation.

Being a teenager isn't all that different from being part of someone else's story. There's always someone who thinks they know better than you do

And if your parents have you for a reason, then that reason better exist. Because once it's gone, so are you.