Quotes About Influence

The people I find most impressive are generally unknown at the time of their actions and forgotten in history.

God enters our lives when through our creative interchanges we make history more just.

all history shows that the hand that cradles the rock has ruled the world, not the hand that rocks the cradle!

We cannot escape history.

...They cannot escape their history any more than you yourself can lose your shadow.

I am not a chess historian - I myself am a piece of chess history, which no one can avoid. I will not write about myself, but I am sure that someone will write.

Many of us ask what can I, as one person, do, but history shows us that everything good and bad starts because somebody does something or does not do something.

If we learn anything from the history of economic development, it is that culture makes all the difference.

History is almost always written by the victors and conquerors and gives their view. Or, at any rate, the victors' version is given prominence and holds the field.

There never has been a period of history, in which the Common Law did not recognize Christianity as lying at its foundation.

We may not live in the past, but the past lives in us.

I would say that to put architecture in the chain of history, to be able to interpret and understand why we are where we are, is quite crucial.

I believe no one can read the history of our country without realizing that the Good Book and the spirit of the Savior have from the beginning been our guiding geniuses.

I think also there's no question that Lincoln has been diluted down through history in some way, almost by becoming as iconic as he is, in a way he's become diluted.

It is not the literal past, the 'facts' of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.

Not only is history written by the winners, it is also made by them.

For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington.

If you make history with God, He'll make history with you

The real movement of history, it turns out, is fueled not by matter but by spirit, by the will to freedom.

Donald Trump's fought maybe the greatest political machine in the history of the world.

Do not applaud me. It is not I who speaks to you, but history which speaks through my mouth. Fustel de

Once a president gets to the White House, the only audience that is left that really matters is history.

It is the winners who write history - their way.

Brezhnev wasn't a minus for the history of our country, he was a huge plus, He laid a foundation for the country's economics and agriculture.