Quotes About Impact

Noticia es lo que excite más al mayor número de gente. Lo que les va a impresionar y dejar atontados. Cuanto más atontados, mejor, siempre que haya suficientes»

From college professors and authors and judges and ministers! Everybody! Dirt farmers and international names!...I don't know what she does to them all - but she does something. She's not a movie star to them - she's a goddess.

Soy yo quien te ha destruido desde el principio, ayudándote.

A culture is made or destroyed by its articulate voices.

That doesn't matter. Not even that they'll destroy it. Only that it had existed." She

they seemed wounded by anything he said, it was not a matter of his words or actions, it was almost . . . almost as if they were wounded by the mere fact of his being.

One man can stop the motor of the world.

Going away isn't going to help as much as you think. The memory stays with you, and the stain. It's not something you slough off once you leave.

There were no public articulations of these humiliations, so we took refuge in accidental occasions to weave our resentments and hatreds into little stories that lost their impact as soon as they were told.

everybody leaves," said Mahshid, her eyes glued to the floor, "who will help make something of this country? How can we be so irresponsible?

Another, with a flash of insight, turned to me and said, "You know, Professor, he is one of those people who have a knack for becoming legendary. I mean, they cannot be ignored.

Was it any consolation, and did we even wish to remember, that what he did to us was what we allowed him to do?

I can't be Pollyanna all the time. There is a certain risk in what we do. We have the power to make someone's dream come true, but we also have the power to crush it forever.

You might be locked in a world not of your own making, her eyes said, but you still have a claim on how it is shaped. You still have responsibilities.

Words do inspire.

There's no such thing as a vote that doesn't matter.

Scientists and engineers ought to stand side by side with athletes and entertainers as role models.

this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal ...~~Barack Obama upon winning the Democratic nomination for presidency conveys his thinking of what that means ....for the world, Tuesday, JUNE 03, 2008

This, I was coming to realize, was the nature of the presidency: Sometimes your most important work involved the stuff nobody noticed.

trying to trace out my future in the lives of the people

Strange how a single conversation can change you. Or maybe it only seems that way in retrospect.

Once I found an issue enough people cared about, I could take them into action. With enough actions, I could start to build power. Issues

Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference.

A change happens because ordinary people do extraordinary things.