Quotes About Impact

I don't think I've ever spoken to anyone who's told me that the story of 'Roots' isn't important.

On one hand, I am very pessimistic, but on the other hand, if I didn't believe that speaking up would do something, I wouldn't have spoken.

Everybody who I've spoken to who was conscious when 'Queer as Folk' went out says it was a complete game-changer. It completely changed people's perception of young, gay men especially.

I like to be spoken about only when I am doing meaningful work.

Obama has spoken out a few times since on race, but without much effect.

To me, presentations are the most powerful device. You can't really name a movement that didn't start with the spoken word.

J.J. Watt, he does on defense what Andrew Luck does on offense. He inspires those around him, he makes them better.

Maybe good luck was like bad luck in that it took a while to sink in.

Each divorce is the death of a small civilization.

Culture is like the current of the ocean. Where has it taken your marriage?

I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example in one week.

My second ex-wife was really kind of like a ship passing in the night. Only she turned out to be the Exxon Valdez.

Each marriage bears the footprints of economic and cultural trends which originate far outside marriage.

Finding a cat--or having a cat find you--can change your world as much as marriage, divorce, love, death, or even winning the lottery can, and sometimes more.

Our attitudes toward retirement, marriage, recreation, even our feelings about death and dying may make much more of an impression than we realize.

Army, Marriage, the Church, and Baking: the Four Horseman of the Apocalypse. Fermin Romero de Torres - The Shadow of the Wind.

The marriage bed is the most degenerative influence in the social order.

Impersonal criticism?is like an impersonal fist fight or an impersonal marriage, and as successful.

Dreams are more personal. We tend to only dream about issues that impact us directly: our careers, our marriage, our children, our family and friends.

The worst problems for children stem from parental conflict, before, during, and after divorce or within marriage.

The turmoil that my dad went through, and then by extension, the kids went though, was profound and disastrous for the marriage, for the family.

With such a worshipping wife, it was hardly possible that any natural defects in it should not be increased. The extreme sweetness of her temper must hurt his.

(Doctors) collectively have done more to block adequate medical care for people of this country than any other single group.

More people live off cancer than die from it.