Quotes About Impact

What is today a matter of academic speculation begins tomorrow to move armies and pull down empires.

if you're looking to see what the government of Kiribati finally decides to do, when do they wave the flag and say the last good-bye, I'm afraid I can't help you. But look around, follow the news, Google it, bear witness. The very least we could do for the canary is acknowledge its demise.

If a person with a bullet in Dallas can change the world, imagine a person with an idea could do.

The thing about denying someone their voice in this life is that it tends to come out in death.

If a Christian is not willing to rise early and work late, to expend greater effort in diligent study and faithful work, that person will not change a generation. Fatigue is the price of leadership. Mediocrity is the result of never getting tired.

Courageous leaders face unpleasant and even devastating situations with equanimity, then act firmly to bring good from trouble, even if their action is unpopular. Leadership always faces natural human inertia and opposition. But courage follows through with a task until it is done.

When God chooses to create somebody, he or she has an impact on other people's choices and it might be that they have an impact on their decisions to trust Christ or not.

Here's the way it works. You're going to find yourself at a crossroads.. There's going to be a dcision you'll have to make, an action to be taken or not, a choice between polar opposites. All of what you are and what you have been and what you could be will be measured on your decision. And the consequences? They don't just affect you. They affect everyone. This is not simple life and death - it's about eternity. Yours. Others'. Do not understimate how far this goes.

Why am I doing this? Will this harm my body, my mind or someone else right now? Will this harm my body, my mind or someone else in the future?

Star Wars changed everything in the industry, from pace and storytelling, to visual effects and sound.

Wow, colorful. I think the kid's head plowed into me. He came at me like a mortar. Pow! Skull meets tits. Tits lose.

You're still carrying Africa, but it's eroding at the edges. Great. We're destroying the Dark Continent.

Love turned everybody's brain sideways, just like a stunner.

Sadder and sadder," Peabody said when they were back on the sidewalk. "I guess you don't think of how many people you brush up against, or how they might remember you. The guy at your corner deli, or the owner of your favorite take-out spot. The clerk where you usually shop for clothes. Not to sound too Free-Agey, but it matters. It all matters, what we leave behind with the people we brush up against.

You won't forget me, Eve. You'll think of me, perhaps not fondly, but you'll think of me. I'm in the middle of a murder investigation. You're part of it. Sure, I'll think of you. Darling, he began, and watched with amusement as his use of the endearment knitted her brow. You'll be thinking of what I can do to you.

But he knows me better than I figured. He knows she matters to me." "And he'll count on that messing you up. You gonna let it?

Murder did that. Took lives, crushed others, changed still others forever.

The dead aren't the only victims.

That click between them had the potential, she knew, to reverberate through the rest of her life.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. —HENRY ADAMS

With a few words you cut slices out of lives. No matter how they were put back together later, they were never the same. Once pieces were missing from the whole, the pattern was forever altered.

A strong woman's tears can cut a man to ribbons faster than a knife.

war fucks everybody without discretion …

She is no longer sure that people are always improved by what they read. Furthermore, she is not sure that writers who venture into the darker territories of the soul always return unscathed.