Quotes About Impact

I wonder if your mother was frightened by Peter Pan before you were born?

His voice dropped the words like icy pebbles into the stream of her mind...

I learned that adventure is never bad, but the alacrity with which you go through life has an impact on the wisdom that life has to offer you. That slowing down doesn't mean you have to do less. It means you have to pay attention more and catch what the world is throwing at you. That every situation you put yourself in deserves your full attention, and that each of us has a responsibility to be more aware of ourselves and of others.

In death, the aftermath is worse tham=n the crash.

COLD WORDS FREEZE PEOPLE, AND HOT WORDS SCORCH THEM, AND BITTER WORDS MAKE THEM BITTER, AND WRATHFUL WORDS MAKE THEM WRATHFUL. KIND WORDS . . . SOOTHE, QUIET, AND COMFORT THE HEARER. Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)

The word "future" and females is a dangerous combination.

Sometimes in your life you just meet someone or hear something that nudges you on the right path. And that becomes the best advice. It could just be a bit of commonsense said in a way that resonates with something in you. It's nothing new, but because it connects with you it holds meaning for you.

It is the storyteller who makes us what we are, who creates history. The storyteller creates the memory that the survivors must have - otherwise their surviving would have no meaning.

In such a regime, I say you died a good death if your life had inspired someone to come forward and shoot your murderer in the chest - without asking to be paid.

The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.

In such a regime, I say you died a good death if your life had inspired someone to come forward and shoot your murdered in the chest - without asking to be paid.

Letters are, of course, quite special in my view, for when a reader has been sufficiently moved (or even perturbed) by a book to sit down and compose a letter to the author, something very powerful has happened. Things Fall Apart has brought me a large body of such correspondence from people of different ages and backgrounds and from all the continents.

I have learned that a man who makes trouble for others is also making it for himself.

Are we going to answer God's call for this church to make a significant impact in this new millennium, or will we rest on past success?

THIS IS IMPORTANT REALLY A poem should never be longer than two lines. That was the first and this is the second.

DON'T EVEN TRY to love me or I'll knock your socks off

En la tiranía de la geografía, una audiencia demasiado dispersa es lo mismo que una audiencia cero.

Google is in a sense serving as a time machine, and we're just now being able to measure the effect this has on publishing, advertising, and attention.

People lose their jobs over this sort of thing. They lose their friends. Their families. They lose everything.

But history does matter. There is a line connecting the Armenians and the Jews and the Cambodians and the Serbs and the Rwandans.

Supposedly, whatever we do that's selfish goes with us to the grave; whatever we do that's selfless lives on.

You once said a man's life is a series of choices. Small decisions made every day that don't seem to matter. That nobody notices but you, if you even notice. Over time, those decisions are like raindrops, falling and filling the stream of a life. You believed the big choices were made in the small ones. If I had chosen differently in a thousand ways, maybe I wouldn't be here.

You think the choices you make just affect you and the other person, but you don't realize how one choice ripples toward everybody. You included.

When you're violent you undermine everything.