Quotes About Impact

Never question the sanity of a woman who can render you defenseless with a look.

What can happen in a few minutes changes you forever.

But she would never forget Brodick... or the spontaneous kiss he'd given her that had meant nothing to him and everything to her.

Ma o cinismo persistente deixa uma pessoa rabugenta e, em demasia, pode provocar estragos duradouros no nosso coração.

The loon placed both palms down on the concrete in front of her and—CRACK!—smacked her forehead hard on the ground.

My mother says that some books are good no matter when you read them, and some are good at a particular moment; they come into your life at just the right time.

Being friends, that's a big thing for some folk. One good friend can change your whole life.

One piece of information that made an impression on her was that individual Chinese lives mattered to the Westerners.

MAO TSE-TUNG, who for decades held absolute power over the lives of one-quarter of the world's population, was responsible for well over 70 million deaths in peacetime, more than any other twentieth-century leader.

Here it seemed that even shocking deaths were like a stone being dropped into a pond where the splash and the ripple closed over into stillness in no time.

Empress Dowager Cixi's legacy was manifold and towering.

It's never the changes we want that change everything.

But I know, I know my death will not kill me. Rather it is the death of others that will kill me.

His words were absorbed by the sand and blown by the wind, and there was no way of knowing how far they reached.

People like these have done more to relieve human misery than any prophet with a manifesto ever will. They number in the millions, these mortals, but they don't make it into the history books much. They don't do anything sweeping or controversial. They live their lives, contribute their bits of good work, and die quietly in their beds without recognition or reward. Usually.

the words were like gunpowder blasts, sparking me into thought and action.

She who does not make the world better for having lived in it has failed to be all that woman should be.

Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories.

Between the river in the mellow English landscape and the African mountain ridge, ran the path of this life. ... The bowstring was released on the bridge at Eton, the arrow described its orbit, and hit the obelisk in the Ngong Hills.

Our words are powerful, and they have consequences.

My words, sometimes even my lack of words, have caused me much pain over the years. It hasn't always been that I have gossiped or lied. Sometimes I just talk too much. Or I repeated the words of others, which I should not have. Other times I have tried to say the right thing, but it came out the wrong way. Or I have said the right thing but in the presence of the wrong people or at the wrong time. There was just no shortage to the ways I could misuse my mouth.

A man doesn't have to be alive to start the fires of revolution.

Did you know that when you save someone's life, it makes you their hero? Did you know that, even if that person is mad at your for saving their life, another person who may have been watching or who may have heard about it could be affected by what you did for that other person, and you could be a hero to them, too?

Every time they lost their tempers, storms would gather. That could be a boon in dry weather.