Quotes About Impact

It's also more deadly than even your strenuous flus.

I bring rage out. I do bring rage out. I always have. I don't know if that's an asset or a liability, but whatever it is, I do.

If you want our trade deficit to go down, we can make that happen. Let's just blow up the economy!

I'm a musician. I write songs. I just hope when the day is done I've been able to tear a little corner off of the darkness.

Success always leaves footprints.

The longer I live and the more experience I have of the world, the more I am convinced that, after all, the one thing that is most worth living for-and dying for, if need be-is the opportunity of making someone else more happy.

I'm not sure he's wrong about automobiles, he said. With all their speed forward they may be a step backward in civilization -- that is, in spiritual civilization. It may be that they will not add to the beauty of the world, nor to the life of men's souls.

It was annoying how her voice, though never loud, pursued him. No matter how vociferous were other voices, all about, he seemed unable to prevent himself from constantly recognizing hers.

Who does more for a nation--the one who makes a fuss about it or the one who, without thinking of it, raises it to universality by the beauty of his actions, and gives it fame and immortality?

I spend every day showing people the power of history. But history only has the power you give it.

Today, I don't believe in destiny. But I do believe in history...There's nothing more powerful than history...

Sometimes a speech can make things better. This isn't one of those times.

they can also be as manipulative as a James Taylor song. Sure, they're calming and bring you to a good place-but at their core, the whole goal of the damn thing is to undo you.

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History doesn't choose individual people. History chooses everyone. Every day.

In a gentle way, you can change the world.

When you speak your mind—and speak for those who need help—there's no more powerful way to be heard.

The base makes the case. What they want goes. As French politician Ledru-Rollin once said, "There go the people.

Insecure men with a patina of authority could be annoying. Give those same men actual authority and they could be deadly.

If I could tell you only one thing about my life it would be this: when I was seven years old the mailman ran over my head.

I bear messages which will make both your ears tingle.

I remembered how Raphael had wondered which of the People of the Alcove had been murdered and how the simple fact of her posing the question had made the whole World seem a darker, sadder Place. Perhaps that is what it is like being with other people. Perhaps even people you like and admire immensely can make you see the World in ways you would rather not. Perhaps that is what Raphael means.

I believe I have made my opinion of him pretty widely known, and though I have done myself no good by my honesty, I am pleased to say that I have done him some harm.

Perhaps that is what it is like with other people. Perhaps even people you like and admire immensely can make you see the World in ways you would rather not. Perhaps that is what Raphael means.