Quotes About Impact

Los fantasmas de nuestra infancia son indestructibles y no saben envejecer

the way we always speak with modest words, we never use clear and urgent words, our words are gray, harmless, floating, and useless

Desde la ventana lo veíamos aparecer por el fondo de la calle, alto, con su rápida forma de caminar: venía comiendo cerezas y arrojando los huesos contra la pared con un tiro seco y fulminante. Para mí la derrota de Francia quedó unida para siempre a aquellas cerezas que él nos hacía probar cuando llegaba, sacándoselas una a una del bolsillo con su mano parsimoniosa y huraña.

I'm not exactly sure what I'd do, you know but something interesting - something that's all mine something that would make some kind of difference in the world.

I'm not exactly sure what I'd do, you know, but something interesting—something that's all mine. Something that would make some kind of difference in the world. It'd be nice to have a new name, to start with, one that's not all worn out from being called so much.

The way I see it," Miles went on, "it's no good hiding yourself away, like Pa and lots of other people. And it's no good just thinking of your own pleasure, either. People got to do something useful if they're going to take up space in the world.

People got to do something useful if they're going to take up space in the world.

You have made my life better by just simply existing.

Intersecting lives shape each other only to become footnotes.

He felt as though his heart were a bomb, a complicated bomb that would result in a simple explosion, wrecking the world without rocking it.

Ideas do matter and do have consequences.

There is a continuous feedback loop between our actions in the world and our self-esteem.

There's a lot of work, a lot of writing, to be done, and there's no telling when the results will begin to show. But if Atlas Shrugged sells 50,000 copies, this culture's cooked.

Then might I exemplify how an influence beyond our control lays its strong hand on every deed which we do, and weaves its consequences into an iron tissue of necessity. (Wakefield)

A stale article, if you did it in a good, warm, sunny smile will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.

The wrong-doing of one generation lives into the successive ones.

the force of doom, which almost invariably compels human beings to linger around and haunt, ghost-like, the spot where some great and marked event has given the colour to their lifetime; and, still the more irresistibly, the darker the tinge that saddens it.

Hence, too, might be drawn a weighty lesson from the little-regarded truth, that the act of the passing generation is the germ which may and must produce good or evil fruit in a far-distant time; that, together with the seed of the merely temporary crop, which mortals term expediency, they inevitably sow the acorns of a more enduring growth, which may darkly overshadow their posterity. The

seize the public by the button

It is very singular, how the fact of man's death often seems to give people a truer idea of his character, whether for good or evil, than they have ever possessed while he was living and acting among them.

the wrong-doing of one generation lives into the successive ones, and, divesting itself of every temporary advantage, becomes a pure and uncontrollable mischief;

la actuación de la generación pasada es el germen que puede y debe dar un fruto bueno o malo en un tiempo muy distante; que, junto con la semilla de la cosecha meramente temporal -coveniencia, según los mortales-, se siembran de forma inevitable las simientes de una cosecha más perdurable, que puede ensombrecer su posteridad.

Philip's local squabble with Plymouth Colony had mutated into a regionwide war that, on a percentage basis, had done nearly as much as the plagues of 1616–19 to decimate New England's Native population.

During the forty-five months of World War II, the United States lost just under 1 percent of its adult male population; during the Civil War the casualty rate was somewhere between 4 and 5 percent; during the fourteen months of King Philip's War, Plymouth Colony lost close to 8 percent of its men.