Quotes About Influence

Fire, water, and government know nothing of mercy.

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A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends. For every friend whom he loses for truth, he gains a better.

A father lives after death in his son.

It may be said that every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead.

One Swallow makes ('tis true) no Summer, Yet one Tongue may create a Rumour.

It might be more worthwhile if we stopped wringing our hands and started ringing our congressmen.

If I was a President and wanted something I would claim I didn't want it. Congress has not given any President anything he wanted in the last 10 years. Be against anything and then he is sure to get it.

When money talks, no one checks the grammar.

Ill habits gather by unseen degrees, As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.

The mind has great influence over the body, and maladies often have their origin there.

It may seem strange to those in health that our beliefs affect us. The fact is, there is nothing of us but belief. It is the whole capital and stock in trade of man. It is all that can be changed, and embraces everything man has made or ever will make.

History ain't what it is. It's what some writer wanted it to be.

History is Force dressed up.

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.

The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.

Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing the matter with this, except that it ain't so.

...and it often happens, that if a lie be believed only for an hour, it hath done its work... Falsehood flies, and the Truth comes limping after it; so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale has had its effect: like a man, who has thought of a good repartee, when the discourse has changed; or the company parted; or like a physician, who hath found out an infallible medicine, after the patient is dead.

I felt myself like a foolish bird, a bird born in a cage without power to attain freedom... I walked along the fields, by the neat iron railing with which they were enclosed. All about me was visible the care of man. Nature herself seemed under the power of the formal influence, and flourished with rigidity and decorum. Nothing was left wild. The trees were lopped into proper shape, cut down here where their presence seemed inelegant and planted there to complete the symmetry of a group.

John Barleycorn was blunting me.

It was a placing of his destiny in another's hands, a shifting of the responsibilities of existence. This in itself was compensation, for it is always easier to lean upon another than to stand alone.

We all know that, as things actually are, many of the most influential and most highly remunerated members of the Bar in every centre of wealth, make it their special task to work out bold and ingenious schemes by which their wealthy clients, individual or corporate, can evade the laws which were made to regulate, in the interests of the public, the uses of great wealth.

The people of that age were phrase slaves. The abjectness of their servitude is incomprehensible to us. There was a magic in words greater than the conjurer's art. So befuddled and chaotic were their minds that the utterance of a single word could negative the generalizations of a lifetime of serious research and thought. Such a word was the adjective UTOPIAN. The mere utterance of it could damn any scheme, no matter how sanely conceived, of economic amelioration or regeneration.