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Quotes About Influence

Throughout history, great leaders have known the power of humor.
~ Allen Klein
History is the propaganda of the victors.
~ Louis de Bernieres
The Fed is the greatest hedge fund in history.
~ Warren Buffett
Ever since I was a kid I've always loved history. I think that kind of catapulted things, but I would say the two major factors were maybe 9/11 and the election of Barack Obama.
~ Donte Stallworth
The voice of history is often little more than the organ of hatred or flattery.
~ Edward Gibbon
Witchcraft was hung, in History, But History and I Find all the Witchcraft that we need Around us, every Day -
~ Emily Dickinson
Throughout history the leaders of the countries have been very particular about what songs should be sung. We know the power of songs.
~ Pete Seeger
Labour leaders lead us all, though we know they bleed us all. Cheer our new Decline and Fall, Gibbon might have dreamed it all.
~ Noel Coward
We are the prisoners of history. Or are we?
~ Robert Penn Warren
All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men did not love Rome because she was great. She was great because they had loved her.
~ G.K. Chesterton
History doesn't choose individual people. History chooses everyone. Every day. The only question is: How long will you ignore the call?
~ Brad Meltzer, The Inner Circle
Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out.
~ Richard Nixon
Barack Obama is the most famous living person in the history of the world.
~ Dee Dee Myers
And History will smile to think that this is the species for which Socrates and Jesus Christ died.
~ Julien Benda
History - the devil's scripture
~ Lord Byron
There's always a way," his sister lectured. "We'll need help, though." "What help?" Amy grinned. "Sometimes it doesn't hurt to be a part of the most powerful family in human history.
~ Gordon Korman
In the whole history of this country, we have probably won more friends from the power of our example than from the power of our military.
~ William J. Clinton
We tap into a lot of things from musical history when making the songs.
~ Chris Stein
More than any other figure in our history [Tomas] Jefferson is responsible for the idea of American exceptionalism.
~ Gordon S. Wood
Mandela means a lot to the world. He's something special. There's only a few people in the history of mankind with that kind of charisma.
~ Ruud Gullit
I don't worry about long-term history. I won't be around to read it.
~ George W. Bush
If you look into the history of fashion, you'll discover that Gernreich was the leading name for years and the leading fashion designer both here in the United States and internationally.
~ Harry Hay
Most of the great results of history are brought about by discreditable means.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson