Quotes About Influence

Men in packs can do terrible things, things they wouldn't have the hate to do alone. It's no excuse, just something you should know.

While their beneficence ensured no one they approved of ever went hungry, sick or homeless in Lilydale, they also used their influence to control the local population, harass those who stepped out of line and create a culture of fear that had neighbors telling on neighbors.

Evie had swallowed that like it belonged to her and went right back to whatever she was working on. Then, later that day, I was walking behind her as she told a fifth grader in outdated bell-bottoms that he wore them with "a flair and a flourish" all his own. I liked that a whole lot about Evie, how she passed on her treasures.

Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible player.

Shakespeare, in some sense, helped create the modern man, didn't he, his influence is that pervasive. He held the mirror up to nature, but he also created that mirror: so the image he created is the very one we hold ourselves up to.

Can you imagine? That you can say something, offhand, and it can matter, it can really matter to someone else? Can you imagine what it's like to hear something like that? To hear someone say something and feel the world ripple around you?

The judges are doing what I am telling them to do, simply because I understand better than they do this one thing: the absurd lengths to which human beings go to prove themselves reasonable.

it was important to figure out what things were worth doing---and then to just do those things, don't do any of the other ones. People will try to convince you, always they will try to convince you to do things you should on no account do. Negotiating these terrible pathways full of bad advice---it is the principal danger of youth. That and suicide.

Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.

Those who write the editorials and those who write the columns, they simply are unaccountable. They're free to impose their cultural politics in the name of freedom of the press.

In politics, an organized minority is a political majority.

Great things happen in small places. Jesus was born in Bethlehem. Jesse Jackson was born in Greenville.

I was born in a slum, but the slum wasn't born in me.

Despite a $4 million cash settlement, King could never quite get his life in order. In the ensuing years he was arrested multiple times for driving under the influence – in several cases after causing accidents and once after knocking his wife down with his car. His businesses failed. His marriages failed.

People follow leaders by choice. Without trust, at best you get compliance.

Money is the mother's milk of politics.

Love is by far bigger than the government can ever be.

I don't put weight on fame, and having people around me just because I am famous makes me feel really bad about myself.

Everything you listen to when you are 17 should be embarrassing, otherwise you are way too cool.

Saints preserve us,' Dr. Kellen said, and squeezed Galen's shoulder. 'What have we done to our youth?

My identity is linked to my grandmother, who's pure Filipino, as pure as you can probably get. And that shaped my imagination. So that's how I identify.

As Howard Aiken said, "Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.

A thirteen-year-old is a kaleidoscope of different personalities, if not in most ways a mere figment of her own imagination. At that age, what and who you are depends largely on what book you happen to be reading at the moment.

You change with the guys you date.