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Influence Quotes

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Influence is everything, and guilt or innocence merely an academic question.

Margaret Mitchell

Gone with the Wind

to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtues are not real to him. His sins, if there are such things as sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of someone else's music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Lord Henry Wotton

Meaningful Quotes

There is no such thing as a good influence, Mr. Gray. All influence is immoral—immoral from the scientific point of view.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Lord Henry Wotton

The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray.

Brave New World

But influence is largely a matter of patience, I have found. Once I had served the sorcerer's purpose, he threw me out of his house to die. I resolved to live to spite him. I begged. I sold what pans of my body remained to me. I became an excellent thief, and soon learned that the contents of a man's letters are more valuable than the contents of ms purse Step by step. one distasteful task after another, I made my way from the shims of Myr to the Small Council chamber Inﬂuence grows like a weed. I tended mine patiently until its tendrils reached from the Red Keep all the way across to the far side of the world, where I managed to wrap them around something very special.

Game of Thrones

We never touch anything directly. We only influence. Suggest. Insinuate.

Power, Authority

New World Order

Men are the products of their environment.

Christopher Smoke Bellew

Environment, Surroundings

Interconnection, Relationship

You know what, Cesar, if the Mario brothers weren't Jersey's third largest family, I'd say kiss my ass. But considering your status, I'll say slurp my butt.

Sarcastic Quotes

Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.

Bible. New Testament

... without thought or conscious desire, might not things external to ourselves vibrate in unison with our moods and passions, atom calling to atom in secret love of strange affinity?

The Picture of Dorian Gray

He's my brother. He's my positive influence.

Friends, Friendship

Positive Quotes

If you could only sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to the people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person.

— You are a bad influence, Wilfred.
— I think so.

Love always leaves a mark.

Interconnection, Relationship

Some stories get a grip on you even if you don't want it.

Un baiser s'il vous plaît

Émilie (friend of Judith's)

— Stories don't change minds.
— Stories are the only things that change minds. We're compelled by fear more than reason.

Views, Perspective

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