Quotes About Influence

I am carried off. We yield to this slow flood.... In and out, we are swept; ...we can not step outside its sinuous, its hesitating, its abrupt, its perfectly encircling walls.

The thing I realise is that it's not what you take, it's what you leave.

Words can be bullies.

By the way? For what it's worth, you showed me something, Ultraviolet— there is such a thing as a Ariana Grande day.

She's a ball buster," Robbie said. "I told her that. I said you don't care what I think. You interview somebody with a name, you just want to cut off his balls, make him look like a wimp. You know what she said? She said, 'I don't have to cut 'em, they come off in my hand.

Conquerors, my son, consider as true history only what they have themselves fabricated.

Les gouvernements suspectent la littérature parce qu'elle est une force qui leur échappe.

Il y avait des hommes si ambitieux qu'ils auraient torché les chefs, pour les entendre seulement dire merci.

There she stood, by herself, amidst all her treasures, with a whole horde of men grovelling at her feet. Like those dreaded monsters of old whose lairs were littered with bones, she was walking on skulls and surrounded by cataclysms.

The thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most.

Vois, ce sont les autres, c'est tout le monde qui va se mettre entre nous.

Now we need something else...and I should be the one person to be reckoned with! (37)

Foucarmont had twice fought duels, and he was in consequence most politely treated and admitted into every circle.

Whenever they were together, fanfares cleared the way before them and they picked up Paris in one hand and put it calmly in their pocket. (64)

Jamais ils ne comprendront que ce qu'on apporte, lorsqu'on a la gloire d'apporter quelque chose, déforme ce qu'on apprend.

No hay palanca más poderosa que una creencia para mover las multitudes humanas; no en vano se dice que la religión liga y aprieta a los hombres

I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas: they've gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the colour of my mind.

Your presence is a moral poison that would contaminate the most virtuous

Now, my bonny lad, you are mine! And we'll see if one tree won't grow as crooked as another, with the same wind to twist it!

He had been content with daily labour and rough animal enjoyments, 'till Catherine crossed his path. Shame at her scorn, and hope of her approval, were his first prompts to higher pursuits; and, instead of guarding him from one and winning him to the other, his endeavors to raise himself had produced just the contrary result.

And we'll see if one tree won't grow as crooked as another, with the same wind to twist it!

doing just what her father hated most—showing how her pretended insolence, which he thought real, had more power over Heathcliff than his kindness. How the boy would do her bidding in anything, and his only when it suited his own inclination.

En ocasiones he soñado cosas que no he olvidado nunca y que han cambiado mi modo de pensar. Han pasado por mi alma y le han dado un color nuevo, como cuando al agua se le agrega vino.

I brought him down one evening and just set him in a chair, and never touched him afterwards. In two hours, I called Joseph to carry him up again; and, since then, my presence is as potent on his nerves as a ghost; and I fancy he sees me often, though I am not near.