Quotes About Impact

When you are in your twenties if somebody hands you the keys to the kingdom and there's all this expectation and burden on you - what does that do to you and also how do you react to being given those keys?

The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation.

If you look back at the history of the twentieth century, Germany alone had practically destroyed Russia several times.

It's been an obsession with me from childhood, the horrors of the twentieth century.

If someone says, 'Hey man, I love your album, it really got me through a breakup, but I downloaded it for free,' I'll be like, 'Good! That's good!' Maybe he didn't have the money for the album, but if he still listened to it, and it's an important part of his life, that's all I can ask for. I don't want his twenty bucks.

I'd rather have Ben Affleck feeling something than twenty minutes of punching CGI Zod. You want moments that resonate with your audience.

If I can play one note and make you cry, then that's better than those fancy dancers playing twenty notes.

The core of the Jesus message is what has made him relevant for twenty centuries.

In twenty years, the Lottery has raised over $1.4 billion. It has been run successfully and efficiently.

I'm one of the people that were divorced by 30, which is apparently a growing group... Obviously it's something that affects you forever. It's going to be interesting to see in ten, twenty years what kind of lasting effect young divorce has on the people that are doing it because it's becoming more and more common.

What I have come to realize over the twenty years when I have worked in different roles as a legislator is that no legislation is as good as the enforcement of it.

Working in sports for nearly the past twenty years, I have seen first-hand how gun violence affects athletes and their families.

I want to be a part of films that will be watched even after twenty years.

My own service started when I was 12, with the small charity I launched with 12 friends. Twenty years later, millions have joined our ranks - educators, business leaders and prominent Canadians.

Headlines twice the size of the events.

I want to be strong. I want to be able to hit people. I want people to be able to bounce off me. When I go out there and play, I play to intimidate people. If someone gets hit down by me, they're going to think twice about coming near me again.

Somebody somewhere decided to put me on TV without really thinking twice about it.

As a captain, I can't make the same mistake twice. As a player, you can get away with that, but if the captain does that, then it affects the whole team.

I do get in the water, but I was ruined by 'Jaws' 'cause I saw it when I was 13. Before that, I used to get in the water everywhere and never thought twice about it. After watching 'Jaws,' I was scared of the water. I have Steven Spielberg to thank for giving me another phobia.

This is the question I'm asking: Do Americans live twice as long because they consume twice as much energy as Europeans? Are you people twice as smart as the average Frenchman? Do you enjoy life twice as much as the average Danish guy? What have we gotten for consuming twice as much energy as Europe? What have we gotten in return?

Today's marijuana is also twice as strong as it was in the mid 80's.

German militarism and Nazism have devastated twice in our generation the lands of German neighbors.

Ray Charles, in his own way, it's like at the beginning, Ray Charles changed American music, not once but twice.

Five years of Republicans' failed energy policies have resulted in Americans paying twice as much at the pump as they did in 2001, while big oil companies make triple the profits.