Quotes About Influence

Anytime you see a turtle up on top of a fence post, you know he had some help.

So Dad has joined the others up there. I feel that they do watch and guide, and I also feel that they join me in the hope that this story of our people can help alleviate the legacies of the fact that preponderantly the histories have been written by the winners.

Indeed, good leaders were often good actors, able to convince their men if not themselves that they would somehow prevail.

You can write anything you want on the internet, and it has the potential to become famous

I take a lot from everywhere. I take from music, architecture, novels, and plays. Anywhere that hits you.

Like I said about Freaked, people tend to find these films, and I think that in the end the cool thing about a movie is that it can be sort of burnt temporarily, but then it's burnt into the fabric of your culture.

Like first love — or heartbreak — the first government you learn to know stays with you.

Every now and then, you find a book that feels like it was keyed to your DNA.

That afternoon, I tried to understand if I had made a choice about what to write. But instead it seemed to me if anyone had made a choice, the novel had, choosing me like I was a door and walking through me out into the world.

We learn our first lessons about money as children, and these shape much of our ideas about it. We learn these lessons from our parents, but from others also. But I feel as if I have always been taught about money by everyone, every day of my life a lesson, whether I want it or not, in what money is and does.

As of now, I am in control here, in the White House, pending the return of the vice president and in close touch with him. If something came up, I would check with him, of course.

Power over a man's subsistence is power over his will.

In the main it will be found that a power over a man's support (salary) is a power over his will.

In the general course of human nature, a power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.

Power over a man's subsistence amounts to power over his will.

Divide et impera must be the motto of every nation that either hates or fears us.

we are not always sure that those who advocate the truth are influenced by purer principles than their antagonists.

Opinion, whether well or ill founded, is the governing principle of human affairs.

Alexander Hamilton

Let Americans disdain to be the instruments of European greatness! Let the thirteen States, bound together in a strict and indissoluble Union, concur in erecting one great American system, superior to the control of all transatlantic force or influence, and able to dictate the terms of the connection between the old and the new world!

It is a received and well-founded maxim, that where no other circumstances affect the case, the greater the power is, the shorter ought to be its duration; and, conversely, the smaller the power, the more safely may its duration be protracted

Alexander Hamilton

Alexander Hamilton

Alexander Hamilton