Quotes About Impact

He wanted to think of words that would make some difference but there were none in any language he knew that were sufficient to the moment or that would change a single thing.

FATBACK'S DEAD" The words on the slip of paper struck me like a blow. "Fatback's dead." It was not just the news itself, though the words cut deep. It was the very fact of the note, stuck on my windshield on the Red Lake Indian Reservation in northern Minnesota

A tragedy has taken place on our land, and even though it did not take place on our watch, we are its inheritors, and the earth remembers.

Killing me loudly with your gun is not a good idea by any standard.

Your twenties is all about taking your childhood out on everyone that you run into.

No generation can escape history.

People tell me there's a difference in the way people perceive my administration and me. Again, I'm--it may be hard to believe, but I'm on the sidelines. I'm not in the middle of all of that anymore. I hope it's [viewed] kindly.... but I don't know--we're not trying to shape [history]. We're not trying to write the memoir, [or] have the seminar to point out all the wonderful things we did. I mean, I think you'll find out what I did right and what I did wrong. I think history will get it right.

No President has ever done more for human rights than I have.

Goodbye, from the world's biggest polluter.

I feel like it's God's plan for me to play football and make a difference in people's lives.

I wouldn't ever set out to hurt anyone deliberately unless it was, you know, important -- like a league game or something.

Being a man or a woman is a matter of birth. Being a man or a woman who makes a difference is a matter of choice.

At this stage of my life, I had reached the conclusion that I would never be the protagonist of any story. The only thing I could hope for was to make an appearance in somebody else's.

The plastic your people made was strong stuff. We find so much of it now - I wonder if it will outlast us entirely.

I understand why there's still so much plastic in the world, still pale fragments of who-know-what-it-once-was washing up on the beaches, or just junk slowly weathering away like all the seats in the stadium. If you'd tried to burn it all on a rubbish heap, you'd have choked the world to death.

It is more than just maintaining or even growing a church, but believing your church can reach an entire city or a region; believing they can make a difference.

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Never doubt that a small group of committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

Every new source from which man has increased his power on earth has been used to diminish the prospects of his successors. All his progress has been made at the expense of damage to his environment which he cannot repair and could not foresee.

Is it worth the lion's while to terrify the mouse?

The doctor is effective only when he himself is affected.

As a doctor I constantly have to ask myself what kind of message the patient is bringing me. What does he mean to me? If he means nothing, I have no point of attack. The doctor is effective only when he himself is affected. 'Only the wounded physician heals.' But when the doctor wears his personality like a coat of armor, he has no effect.