Quotes About Impact

Your message means less than the way the message is delivered, because in actuality, the way the message is delivered, IS the message.

Sometimes the slightest things change the directions of our lives, the merest breath of a circumstance, a random moment that connects like a meteorite striking the earth. Lives have swiveled and changed direction on the strength of a chance remark.

I've learned... that sometimes coming public with certain things, it inspires other people. And sometimes I want to keep things private... but then I found out that it helps other families...

The true mark of a leader is not how many followers he has, but how he inspires them to greatness.

If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.

When you speak, your words echo only across the room or down the hall. but when you write, your words echo down the ages.

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exist only as an idea

The tongue like a sharp knife... Kills without drawing blood.

My brother was a great favorite with everybody, and his death cast a gloom upon the whole neighborhood.

It is not necessary to do extraordinary things to get extraordinary results.

I enjoy the bad things that are said about me. It enhances sales and makes me feel evil. I don't like to feel good 'cause I am good. But evil? Yes. It gives me another dimension.

Writers, especially when they act in a body and with one direction, have great influence on the public mind.

Both jaws, like enormous shears, bit the craft completely in twain.

And so the universal thump is passed around

Yet habit - strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?

we're probably sitting on Ground Zero, right here at this table, for h-Bomb number ! table was at 57th Street and 7th Avenue NYC

I heard one officer say it was the turning point of the war.

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deacesed inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanities.

When you are writing laws you are testing words to find their utmost power. Like spells, they have to make things happen in the real world, and like spells, they only work if people believe in them.

The fate of peoples is made like this, two men in small rooms. Forget the coronations, the conclaves of cardinals, the pomp and processions. This is how the world changes: a counter pushed across a table, a pen stroke that alters the force of a phrase, a woman's sigh as she passes and leaves on the air a trail of orange flower or rose water; her hand pulling close the bed curtain, the discreet sigh of flesh against flesh.

Love is an energy. You can feed it to people, and they, in turn, feed it to others, and eventually it comes back to nurture you.

Flushed with the explosive shit of a sumo wrestler who ate Mexican food.

To be able to bring change into a fixed world, [she] thought. There is power in that.