Normative Influence Quotes & Sayings

I will love you as the iceberg loves the ship, and the passengers love the lifeboat and the lifeboat loves the teeth of the sperm whale, and the sperm whale loves the flavor of naval uniforms. — Lemony Snicket

For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately, that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible. — Lewis Carroll

He who never puts his trust in any man will never be deceived. — Leonardo Da Vinci

You're measured by championships no matter what. — Candace Parker

I think most people realize that our problems are our government, not me and you individually, except that we can - must have some sort of responsibility, because they're in there and they were elected, so we have to defend ourselves on those lines. — Willie Nelson

Cynics are merely idealists with unusually high standards. — Alain De Botton

Goals are as essential to success as air is to life. — David J. Schwartz

On the energetic level, it often happens that the intensity and power of your aspirations are smaller than those of the doubts, resistance, and fears that plague you. — Bianca Gaia

You're ok. Breathe. Just breathe. Open your eyes. Come back. It's ok. It's over now. You're ok. Wake up. Please wake up. Don't do this to me. Don't do this to me. Don't do this to me. I love you so fucking much. Come back. — Pleasefindthis

All right, when you guys start talking about waxing unmentionable places, that's my cue to get the hell out of here. — J. Lynn

[Inigo corners Count Rugen, knocks his sword aside, and slashes his cheek, giving him a scar just like Inigo's]
Inigo Montoya: Offer me money.
Count Rugen: Yes!
Inigo Montoya: Power, too, promise me that.
[He slashes his other cheek]
Count Rugen: All that I have and more. Please ...
Inigo Montoya: Offer me anything I ask for.
Count Rugen: Anything you want ...
[Rugen knocks Inigo's sword aside and lunges. But Inigo traps his arm and aims his sword at Rugen's stomach]
Inigo Montoya: I want my father back, you son of a bitch! — William Goldman

Old age is the only thing that lives up to its reputation. — Emily Levine

The birth of science rang the death-knell of an arbitrary and constantly interposing Supreme Power. — Annie Besant

LATER. - I must go to Germany. At midnight Murrow phoned from London with the news. The British and French have decided they will not fight for Czechoslovakia and are asking Prague to surrender unconditionally to Hitler and turn over Sudetenland to Germany. I protested to Ed that the Czechs wouldn't accept it, that they'd fight alone ... . Maybe so. I hope you're right. But in the meantime Mr. Chamberlain is meeting Hitler at Godesberg on Wednesday and we want you to cover that. If there's a war, then you can go back to Prague. — William L. Shirer

He loved Minnesota's flora and fauna and seemed ill-suited as either a fawner or floorer, a — Mark Steyn