Quotes About Influence

I look at American movies, the big muscles, and try to apply that to Chinese film-making.

Podían haberlo olvidado, solo que él no permitió que lo olvidaran.

Palestino-Tiberian tradition ... Ashkenazi opted for it, although they also introduced significant modifications.

The Tiberian system became more and more dominant until it completely ousted its Palestino-Tiberian counterpart around the middle of the fourteenth century.

before the tenth century Hebrew writing, like Phoenician, was purely consonantal, and it was halfway though the ninth century BCE, under the influence of Aramaic.

In addition to recording the actual changes in language ... the Masoretic pointing system also reflects the linguistic views of the Masoretes in a variety of ways, with evidence of Aramaic influence and of unduly subjective construction.

The prevailing hypothesis continues to be that the Palestinian tradition is earlier than the Tiberian, although, under the influence of the latter, it developed forms that were closer to Tiberian ones.

We do not go to bed in single pairs; even if we choose not to refer to them, we still drag there with us the cultural impedimenta of our social class, our parents lives, our bank balances, our sexual and emotional expectations, our whole biographies -- all the bits and pieces of our unique existences.

Do you not feel', said the Doctor in his very soft but still crisp-edged voice, 'that invisible presences have more reality than visible ones? They exert more influence upon us. They make us cry more easily.

is it not to the mercies of the eyes of others that we commit ourselves on our journey through the world?

Do you not feel... that invisible presences have more reality than visible ones? They exert more influence upon us. They make us cry more easily.

behind every great man is a woman dedicated to his greatness whilst behind every great woman is a man dedicated to bringing her down.

The grandfather clock was all right until Grandma fixed it. All she did was tap it and the weights dropped off. She always had that effect on gentlemen.

She herself is a haunted house. She does not possess herself; her ancestors sometimes come and peer out of the windows of her eyes and that is very frightening.

We took the words of God's guidance in the Torah and fashioned them into cages in which we felt secure. For

I got the wake-up call that no one is policing our oceans. I wondered, how can I do anything? What really can I do to make things better? There are some perks to being a celebrity. My job is to be funny once in a while, but it's my responsibility to make good use of it.

But Tony, though he had never heard of the word attrition, had great faith in his own powers of wearing down his mother's resistance. He had found by long experience that if one asked for a thing often enough, simply ignoring rebuffs and refusals, one could usually get what one wanted.

That is why everyone in politics, and we do it, must make sure that they do not depend on one single interest group. A good compromise is one where everybody makes a contribution.

Nice," said Mrs Spender emphatically, "is hardly the word, if you see what I mean. I mean a man who does such wonderful good by his mere influence, though mind you I don't mean like an Indian by simply sitting and thinking of nothing.

The more we do to you, the less you seem to believe we are doing it.

Rarely do we realize that if we simply take time to marvel at life's gifts and give thanks for them, we activate stunning opportunities to increase their influence in our lives.

Los envidiosos poseen el don de hacer daño con la única fuerza de su pensamiento. Ellos pueden lograr que, en tus manos, las flores se conviertan en ortigas.

Tacit collaboration by millions who bite their lip is even more essential than lip service by thousands of favor seekers. Hence, to stimulate at least passive cooperation, the party strives to give the impression that "everybody" is already on its side. (The Rise of Political Correctness)

Mamá has lived long enough to learn a man doesn't know what he thinks until a woman makes him think it.