Quotes About Impact

Good things, when short, are twice as good.

How is it that one match can start a forest fire, but it takes a whole box of matches to start a campfire?

When some men die it is as if you had lost your pen-knife, and were subject to perpetual inconvenience until you could get another. Other men's going is like the vanishing of a great mountain from the landscape, and the outlook of life is changed forever.

No one ever really dies as long as they took the time to leave us with fond memories.

Death is a sudden silence — one of those deafening silences that leaves ringing in your ears.

Jails and state prisons are the complement of schools: so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former.

Nerd truth. Comic Sans absolutely messes up everything it touches.

Comic Sans — ruining PowerPoint presentations since 1994.

What is told in the ear of a man is often heard a hundred miles away.

One Swallow makes ('tis true) no Summer, Yet one Tongue may create a Rumour.

UNLESS someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.

I wondered why somebody didn't do something. Then I realized, I am somebody.

Each of us can only do the best we can for as many as we can and that will never be good enough for those of us who care!

...the historian must serve two masters, the past and the present. And while his obligation to the past, his complete, unassailable fidelity to it, must always claim his first loyalty, he must accept the fact that the choices he makes as a historian are not of consequence to him alone, but will affect the moral sense, perhaps the wisdom of his generation.

History is Force dressed up.

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.

...and it often happens, that if a lie be believed only for an hour, it hath done its work... Falsehood flies, and the Truth comes limping after it; so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale has had its effect: like a man, who has thought of a good repartee, when the discourse has changed; or the company parted; or like a physician, who hath found out an infallible medicine, after the patient is dead.

How strange and changeful is life! How small a thing is needed to make or ruin us!

Tides are like politics. They come and go with a great deal of fuss and noise, but inevitably they leave the beach just as they found it. On those few occasions when major change does occur, it is rarely a good news.

Khubilai's invasions of Japan had failed, but they left a tremendous impact on Japanese social and political life by pushing them toward cultural unification and militaristic government. The Mongols, meanwhile, turned away

Genghis Khan was a doer.

La gente trabaja todo el día, todos los días, intentando mejorar sus organizaciones y sus vidas. Intentando ayudar a sus familias, a sus empleados y a sus colegas, a sus clientes y a las comunidades en las que operan.

People with big personalities can make very big targets of themselves.

But we are in any case mistaken if we think of our picture of the world as a passive record. The picture is made by, it is made of, our activity, all the way from the logic of the brain to the use of the plow and the wheel.