Quotes About Influence

The act of breathing begins our life as we come out of the womb; in our last moment, when we cease breathing, our life is over. It only makes sense that the breath should also have a profound influence on all the moments in between.

True greatness is measured by how much freedom you give to others, not by how much you can coerce others to do what you want.

The only reason why world war 2 happened was because Chuck Norris decided to take a nap.

We do not disappear without a trace. We leave a wake that never quite disappears, a gash in time that we so laboriously leave behind us.

I'm grateful for any opportunity to help inspire the next generation

Por eso hay que permanecer alejados de personas que tengan un aliento gélido. Su sola presencia podría apagar el fuego más intenso, con los resultados que ya conocemos. Mientras más distancia tomemos de estas personas, será más fácil protegernos de su soplo.

La experiencia lo hizo descubrir el gran poder que las palabras tenían para acercar o alejar a las personas, y que lo importante no era el idioma que se utilizara sino la intención que llevaba el comunicado.

That's why it's important to keep your distance from people who have frigid breath. Just their presence can put out the most intense fire, with results we're familiar with. If we stay a good distance away from those people, it's easier to protect ourselves from being extinguished.

You don't meet many people who let you practice your self-confidence on them that way. The ones who do are either very weak or very strong.

Politicians, they take pleasure a-prying into a man's affairs and I aimed to please 'em.

For just one little minute she almost wished that Pa was a railroad man. There was nothing so wonderful as railroads, and railroad men were great men, able to drive the big iron engines and the fast, dangerous trains. But of course not even railroad men were bigger or better than Pa, and she did not really want him to be anything but what he was.

It's a special art, asking people to do things, yet making it seem as if you never asked at all.

The past was worth remembering and knowing in its own right. It was not behind us, never truly behind us, but under us, holding us up, a foundation for all that was to come and everything that had ever been.

Tell me what you ate when you were a child, and whether the memory cheers you up or not.

It's amazing what you can do, if you just study what people want to hear said and then say it to them!

Yet no one is really alone; those who live no more echo still within our thoughts and words, and what they did is part of what we have become — Blessing of Memory, Mediations Before Kaddish

I meant that sometimes we choose partners who, in some ways, remind us of our parents. The good and the bad parts of them.

Most people are afraid of knives. If you show yourself willing to carve someone up, they tend to be afraid of you.

What did they think I was going to do, steal a body? If I wanted to, I could empty the damn place and get every corpse to play follow the leader. Perhaps that was why I needed watching. Perhaps. --Anita Blake

I would rather you love me, but if not love, fear will do.

The rich and powerful always seem to prefer the tops of buildings. Hasn't anyone ever explained to them that higher just means you have farther to fall? -- Anita Blake

I worry that when you start quoting Machiavelli to justify your actions, you have ceased to be one of the good guys. No, quoting Nietzsche does that. Machiavelli is just cool.

You may be a manipulative bastard sometimes, but you are our manipulative bastard.

And the moment you care that much, a man has you. He owns a little piece of your soul, and he can beat you to death with it.