Quotes About Influence

In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us the abjection of learning.

The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortunes.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil.

The opinion of the strongest is always the best.

Better to rely on one powerful king than on many little princes.

Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one.

The argument of the strongest is always the best.

Tout flatteur vit aux dépens de celui qui l'écoute.

Mor?ii tr?iesc atâta vreme cât o singur? fiin?? vie îi mai poart? în minte. Noi îi purt?m în noi pe mor?ii no?tri.

nici unul din noi nu este nimic altceva decât ceea ce lumea din jurul lui a hot?rât c? este.

Kenji Mizoguchi is to the cinema what Bach is to music, Cervantes is to literature, Shakespeare is to theatre, Titian is to painting: the very greatest.

if George Washington founded the nation, John Marshall defined it.

Not to be overlooked are the four women who played crucial roles in FDR's life: his mother, Sara; Lucy Mercer, the woman he loved; Missy LeHand, the woman who loved him;

When warned on one occasion that the unions might become too powerful, he was quoted as replying, "Too powerful for what?" His attitude was that their power should prove an antidote for that of big business.

En général, vous savez, les gens, les femmes, me plaisent pour des raisons extérieurs, des raisons qui n'ont rien à voir avec elles, posées sur elles comme une robe de chambre ou un manteau qu'on peut poser sur une autre. Une femme me plait par exemple, parce-qu'elle a joué dans un film de Bresson ou bien parce-qu'un homme que j'admire est amoureux d'elle.

Without him nothing was done, and through him everything was done, and the king trusted him more than any other.

Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.

All diese Ratschläge, die ich Dir gebe, sind vergeblich und töricht. Niemand wird sie befolgen können. Aber ich wollte nichts anderes als: Bei Gelegenheit Deiner Kunst ein Gedicht schreiben, dessen Inbrunst Dir in die Wangen steigt. Es handelte sich darum, Dich zu entflammen, nicht Dich zu lehren." -Genet (Der Seiltänzer)

Je me disais : "Tu barreras dans l'Histoire de France de ta fille tout ce qui est exaltation à la guerre." Mais il aurait fallu tout barrer et comme j'avais malgré tout essayé, l'institutrice vint chez moi et me dit : "Que voulez-vous, monsieur Giono, comment pouvons-nous faire ?

When you see a woman who can go nowhere without a staff of admirers, it is not so much because they think she is beautiful, it is because she has told them they are handsome.

Nothing is ever so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an afternoon.

I caught him with an unseen hook and an invisible line which is long enough to let him wander to the ends of the world and still bring him back with a twitch upon the thread. —C. K. Chesterton, via Evelyn Waugh

Miss Saigon from Madam Butterfly. The Hours from Mrs. Dalloway. The Lion King from Hamlet