Quotes About Sway

So every day I'm mindful as I watch the Bush crowd extend their sway into policies of every imaginable variety, and over almost every square foot of earth, that the control of the American state is a matter of urgency.

If you can engage the influencer's passions, and work with them to craft a compelling logical appeal, then you can leverage the credibility of the influencer to actually sway hearts and minds.

One by one, other girls look in his direction. Yeah, Logan has that effect on females—all females. And quite a few guys, I might add.

Beauty's witching sway is now to me a star that's fallen-a dream that's passed away.

Life is not a struggle. It's a wiggle.

In depicting the most general phases of the development of the proletariat, we traced the more or less veiled civil war, raging within existing society, up to the point where that war breaks out into open revolution, and where the violent overthrow of the bourgeoisie lays the foundation for the sway of the proletariat. (CM 254)

There is no bigger aphrodisiac than power.

Power is nothing unless you can turn it into influence.

The screens sway inward as the attic fan rattles overhead, pulling at wet air that has no desire to be moved.

The ultimate fact of the universe is love; and its sway is all-comprehensive, and absolutely certain of final victory.

I could not tame my nature down; for he Must serve who fain would sway -- and soothe -- and sue -- And watch all time -- and pry into all place -- And be a living lie -- who would become A mighty thing amongst the mean, and such The mass are; I disdained to mingle with A herd, though to be leader -- and of wolves. The lion is alone, and so am I.

The secret to using power is not to use it. Just having it is enough.

The spirit within nourishes, and the mind, diffused through all the members, sways the mass and mingles with the whole frame.

People and politics are a lot like think the wind. Depending on which way the wind is blowing either makes us sway left or right. Only when the winds are calm can we grow,straight and tall.

A petty kind of power is still power.

being admired gives you more power than being feared.

The spell of power never quite releases its hold.

There will be sway.

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Grass: I live in a great steel tower that reflects the blazing sun. People catch fire just walking by. The more bodies that pile up around you, the greater your equity, the stronger your power, the longer you live. This is the point of living in a high rise. To see the bodies pile up at sunset, the nostalgic hour, the hour of summing up, stirring the cocktails, feeling the great tower sway in the hot winds.

No doubt I had long been prepared, by virtue of the sway exercised over my imagination and my ability to be moved by the example of Swann, to believe that what I feared was true, instead of what I would have wished for. Thus the comfort brought by Albertine's affirmations was all but compromised for a moment because I recalled the story of Odette.

If popular opinion and celebrity and fame and the politically correct view is going to be what really sways the jury, if the jury will disregard the law, disregard the evidence, and everyone expects it to happen, then why bother? Have

Power isn't everything ...its the only thing.

Money: power at its most liquid.