Quotes About Influence

Life made its pattern around and beneath and through her.

Unfortunately it is not possible to destroy our history. It lives inside us, probably the more powerful for our attempts to bury it. We and our families are likely to pay a high price in the present for trying to block out the past. Attempts to cover up family history tend to fester, influencing others born long after the original painful experiences and relationships.

Your sister strikes me as the type of driver who raises the rates for everybody else." "Good one, Ona

And so, like a courtesan, forced to perform the dance of the seven veils, I grudgingly reveal the names, one by one, of the cities that have carved their names into me, leaving behind the scar tissue that forms the bulk of who I am.

It is quite possible for a work of literature to operate as a war machine upon its epoch.

He who fears something gives it power over him.

People need to start to think about the messages that they send in the movies.

Io non ci ho mai tenuto a diventare un capo" rispose Grania. "Sono sempre andata dove volevo andare, e quando mi guardavo indietro vedevo che gli altri mi stavano seguendo.

Create your own universe and bring everything into your own sphere

Draw a circle around the center of a human being. Within this circle lies all physical power. Outside of this circle, even the strongest human being loses his power. If you can pin your partner outside of his sphere of strength, you can control him with just one finger

You are a product of your own personal environment. What you have observed and what you have been taught affects your level of expectancy and can hinder you from receiving the miracle you need.

A nadie —contestó Rossini—. Todos llevamos demasiada historia a nuestras espaldas, y la historia modifica todo lo que hacemos o decimos. El Santo Padre viajó a París para saludar a los jóvenes. Grandiosas manifestaciones

Overcome with anger, David grabbed her other arm. Why did she have to be so stubborn? Why couldn't she see how good The Wave could be? "We can stop you, and we will!

Each person should see himself as though the entire world is on a delicate balance, and with one deed, he or she can tip the scales.

Each jubilating hand hand the potential to vivisect, each hailing mouth had the power to condemn someone to death.

Whether attained by craft or by chance, great power has a way of defining the person who wields it. Finding themselves venerated by those around them, the supremely powerful almost inevitably begin to worship themselves.

I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.

Kind words are short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

I'm a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world.

I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world.

I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across.

Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier.

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But if that drop was not in the ocean, I think the ocean would be less because of that missing drop. I do not agree with the big way of doing things.

At this point I would like to quote from the sayings of the most recent of the great Indian rishis (or sages)—Sri Ramana Maharshi, who was an authority on occult psychology and all questions pertaining to the human mind: "An average man's mind is filled with countless thoughts, and therefore each individual one is extremely weak. When, in place of these many useless thoughts, there appears only one, it is a power in itself and has a wide influence.