Quotes About Impact

To express oneself badly is not only faulty as far as the language goes, but does some harm to the soul.

Would that the majority could inflict the greatest evils, for they would then be capable of the greatest good, and that would be fine, but now they cannot do either. They cannot make a man either wise or foolish, but they inflict things haphazardly.

Wen das Wort nicht schlägt, den schlägt auch der Stock nicht.

He who would change the world should first change himself.

If you realize that you are society. The society of the world will cross you.

The unexpected connections we make might not last, yet stay with us forever

Buddha said: "Do not overlook negative actions merely because they are small; however small a spark may be, it can burn down a haystack as big as a mountain." Similarly he said: "Do not overlook tiny good actions, thinking they are of no benefit; even tiny drops of water in the end will fill a huge vessel.

We are acting as if we were the last generation on the planet. Without

Dialogue is a lean language in which every word counts.

Wilmer Stone read our stories to us in a monotone as if he were reading from the pages of a phone directory. What we learned with each stab of pain was that the words themselves and not the inflections supplied by the reader had to carry the emotion of the story.

Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students.

In the nineteenth century, cholera struck the most modern, prosperous cities in the world, killing rich and poor alike, from Paris and London to New York City and New Orleans. In 1836, it felled King Charles X in Italy; in 1849, President James Polk in New Orleans; in 1893, the composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in St. Petersburg.

Many experts believe that a cholera-like pandemic looms. In a survey by the epidemiologist Larry Brilliant, 90 percent of epidemiologists said that a pandemic that will sicken 1 billion, kill up to 165 million, and trigger a global recession that could cost up to $3 trillion would occur sometime in the next two generations.

I strive never to forget the real world consequences of my decisions on individuals, businesses and government.

un jour contraints de consommer un monde dans le quel nous aurons été absents pendant trop longtemps

More than this, I believe that the only lastingly important form of writing is writing for children. It is writing that is carried in the reader's heart for a lifetime; it is writing that speaks to the future.

She flashes me a smile so devastating that it could even make an atheist believe in God.

Not only has volume been ratcheted up but expectations have, too. Quiet success--painting a picture, writing a poem, writing an algorithm--is all well and good, but if you haven't become famous doing it, then did it really matter?

The facts of life are that a child who has seen war cannot be compared with a child who doesn't know what war is except from television.

I'd never really thought about it before, but now you ask I can see that how my parents handled money definitely affected my relationship with it.

One cannot do such harm to another and not wound one's own soul in the process.

One ought not to use words carelessly, or even spontaneously. Once they are launched, they cannot be called back.

Allow a person to affect your emotions and your judgment suffered, always.

We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.