Quotes About Impact

Coke hyped you up, gave you the courage, if you lacked it, to pull a trigger. Heroin slowed you down. Down to a death crawl.

Para comprender a un gran hombre, es preciso referirse, necesariamente, al día de su muerte.

Es cierto que la televisión, a diferencia de los instrumentos de comunicación que la han precedido (hasta la radio), destruye más saber y más entendimiento del que transmite.

Saber de política es importante aunque muchos no les importe, porque la política condiciona toda nuestra vida y nuestra convivencia.

La plupart des hommes de pouvoir tirent leur aura de la position qu'ils occupent. À partir du moment où ils la perdent, c'est comme si la prise avait été arrachée. Ils se dégonflent comme ces poupées qui se trouvent à l'entrée des parcs d'attractions. On les croise dans la rue et on ne réussit pas à comprendre comment un type de ce genre a pu susciter autant de passions.

Application of your faith will change your life

Apathy and arrogance: These are the real culprits that affect us all to one degree or another.

What have you done with your knowledge and priesthood power that those without have not done this week? If you cannot answer that with power every day, what does that say about you?

We allow poor teachers to hang around and plague our schools until they choose to retire. That

Why? Why indeed. It was a sticky, impossible question and I didn't know how to answer it. How far back did I have to go to find the place where our roads diverged? How could I explain that sometimes a thousand little things added up to something so big it had the power to crush a relationship.

Pero si es el resultado final de todo esto, y sé que hay una elevada probabilidad de que así sea, decidí hace tiempo que puedo aguantar lo que sea. Lo único que no puedo aguantar es saber que no hice nada.»

I only have one fear in doing all of this," he said, which is "that people will see these documents and shrug, that they'll say, 'we assumed this was happening and don't care.' The only thing I'm worried about is that I'll do all this to my life for nothing.

He had come to believe that the paper's concealment of that information may very well have changed the outcome of the 2004 election. "Hiding that story changed history," he said.

It was an event in his soul.

What we say and what we do ultimately comes back to us so let us own our responsibility, place it in our hands, and carry it with dignity and strength.

It is more rewarding to watch money change the world than watch it accumulate.

Remember: "For want of a nail, the horseshoe was lost, for want of a horseshoe, the horse was lost, for want of a horse, the battle was lost, for want of a battle, the war was lost." This parable should be the mantra of everyone who thinks her or his vote doesn't count.

Voting isn't the most we can do, but it is the least.

we have to behave as if everything we do matters. Because it might.

In truth, we don't know which of our acts in the present will shape the future. But we have to behave as if everything we do matters. Because it might.

Taking away the good is even more lethal than pointing out the bad.

Your daughters are watching you.

I recommend trying this kind of grassroots organizing for a week or a year, a month or a lifetime—working for whatever change you want to see in the world. Then one day you will be talking to a stranger who has no idea you played any part in the victory she or he is celebrating.

Then, as if in answer to a riddle posed years before, you will realize that this growth came from seeds you planted or watered or carried from place to place—and you'll be rewarded in the way that we as communal beings need most: you'll know you made a difference.