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Quotes About Impact

The voice of flattery affects us after it has ceased, just as after a concert men find some agreeable air ringing in their ears to the exclusion of all serious business.
~ Seneca the Younger
Many a man's tongue broke his nose.
~ Seumas MacManus
Donald Trump, yes, he's somebody's little boy. But he is his ideas because his ideas are what's going to affect us. As a man, he can do very little. But his ideas could kill us all.
~ Stephen Colbert
The great man... walks across his century and leaves the marks of his feet all over it, ripping out the dates on his goloshes as he passes.
~ Stephen Leacock
Rupert Murdoch is the most dangerous man in the world.
~ Ted Turner
What a man does for himself, dies with him. What a man does for his community lives long after he's gone.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
Man is now in charge of the thermostat for the globe.
~ Tom Udall
There were only 3 people that I wanted to meet in life, Nelson Mandela was one of them. What a life, what a journey, what a man. Thank you for passing this way! God bless your resting soul!
~ Tyler Perry
The only thing that a man may do that is new, is to write himself on human hearts.
~ Vachel Lindsay
At any moment, man must decide, for better or for worse, what will be the monument of his existence.
~ Viktor E. Frankl
No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.
~ William Hazlitt
Great men help dazzle the people; after that, they dazzle themselves even more dangerously.
~ Jean Francois Paul de Gondi
Great men stamp their mind upon their age and nation.
~ Samuel Smiles
I think it's probably a bad idea for young boys to see how they're being depicted in men's fantasies. It could get very dark. You could learn how to do things wrong.
~ Amanda Seyfried
What is said about men often has as much influence upon their lives, and especially upon their destinies, as what they do.
~ Victor Hugo
True or false, that which is said of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all in their destinies, as that which they do.
~ Victor Hugo
It is only liquid currents of thought that move men and the world
~ Wendell Phillips
History deals mainly with captains and kings, gods and prophets, exploiters and despoilers, not with useful men.
~ H. L. Mencken
To be good is not enough; a man must be good for something
~ Henry Ford
It's a Man's Man's Man's World
~ James Brown
Give me 100 men that hate nothing but sin, and love Jesus Christ, and we'll shake England for God.
~ John Wesley
Men make history, but they can never know the history they are making.
~ Joseph J. Ellis
Is there such a thing as a man-made stroke? In other words, did someone do this to (Democratic Senator Tim Johnson)? ...I know what this [Republican] party is capable of.
~ Joy Behar
If I had a wand and could put statues in different places, one of the statues would go to a man who just died, called Norman Borlaug, who came up with the Green Revolution.
~ Juan Enriquez