Quotes About Influence

I must admit, maybe I am a piece of history after all.

History tells me that when the Russians come to a country they don't go back.

The revenge of history is more powerful than the revenge of the most powerful General Secretary.

How many writers in history have ever been as famous as Stephen King? He casts an awfully long shadow.

History belongs to she who holds the pen...If we don't tell our stories, they won't be told.

Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.

Whatever we do or fail to do will influence the course of history.

Things that change history tend to be organized.

The mixture of the oral and the written traditions in the writings of Plato enabled him to dominate the history of the West.

History will judge us by the difference we make in the everyday lives of children.

. . . the Christian Mind has succumbed to the secular drift with a degree of weakness unmatched in Christian History.

History thus becomes largely a study of character. Insight into temperament is hardly less important than the probing of "original materials."

History without politics descends to mere Literature.

A nation does not create the historians it deserves; the historians are far more likely to create the nation.

It is not the neutrals or the lukewarm who make history.

If citizens followed their leaders' example throughout history, the human race would have died out centuries ago.

The past has always been the handmaid of authority.

We can trace almost all the disasters of English history to the influence of Wales.

The queens in history compare favorably with the kings.

Neutrals and lukewarms do not make history.

I think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power.

All that is noble in the world's past history, and especially the minds of the great and good, are, in like manner, never lost.

History may never have all the facts, but history always has the last word.

Assassination has never changed the history of the world.