Influence quotations

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◆ I always dream of a pen that would be a syringe.

- Jacques Derrida99

◆ Once in a while it really hits people that they don't have to experience the world in the way they have been told to.

- Alan Keightley99

◆ Nobody should be whipped. Remember that, once and for all. Neither man nor animal can be influenced by anything but suggestion.

- Mikhail Bulgakov99

◆ To think that because those who wield power in society wield in the end that of government, therefore it is of no use to attempt to influence the constitution of the government by acting on opinion, is to forget that opinion is itself one of the greatest active social forces. One person with a belief is a social power equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.

- John Stuart Mill99

◆ People felt themselves watching him even before they knew that there was anything different about him. His eyes made a person think that he heard things that no one else had ever heard, that he knew things no one had ever guessed before. He did not seem quite human.

- Carson McCullers99

◆ We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why.

- Stephen King99

◆ He was no longer quite sure whether anything he had ever thought or felt was truly his own property, or whether his thoughts were merely a common part of the world's store of ideas which had always existed ready-made and which people only borrowed, like books from a library.

- Milan Kundera99

◆ A solid answer to everything is not necessary. Blurry concepts influence one to focus, but postulated clarity influences arrogance.

- Criss Jami99

◆ Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of all the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.

- Giorgos Seferis99

◆ A parent gives life, but as parent, gives no more. A murderer takes life, but his deed stops there. A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

- Henry Adams99

◆ The first lesson to learn is to resign oneself to the little difficulties in life, not to hit out at everything one comes up against. If one were able to manage this one would not need to cultivate great power; even one's presence would be healing.

- Hazrat Inayat Khan99

◆ Never let haters 'still' your flow. They can only do so with your permission.

- T.F. Hodge99

◆ Evil influence is like a nicotine patch, you cannot help but absorb what sticks to you.

- E.A. Bucchianeri99

◆ Women are like a computer virus... they enter your life, scan your pockets, transfer your money, edit your mind, download their problems, delete your smile and hang your life!

- 99

◆ The people closest to us have the ability to hurt us the most and yet also have the ability to heal us the best.

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