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Quotes About Impact

But in the secret history of anger--one man's silence / lives in the bodies of others.
~ Ilya Kaminsky
One man can make another's life so much better.
~ Janet Morris
A small amount of power corrupts a small man absolutely. A little knowledge is dangerous to a little man. To a great man only great knowledge is dangerous.
~ Leonard J. V. Compagno
Strike at a great man, and you will not miss.
~ Sophocles
Hoover, if elected, will do one thing that is almost incomprehensible to the human mind: he will make a great man out of Coolidge.
~ Clarence Darrow
President Kennedy was the greatest man I ever met, and the best friend I ever had.
~ David Powers
It is safer to do most men harm than to do them too much good.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
So I want to thank the Pentagon, the Soviet Union and the military-industrial complex from the bottom of my heart. Without them, I could never have become the man I am today.
~ George Carlin
A man of learning who makes no use of what he knows, is like a cloud which gives no rain.
~ George Pope Morris
Our first relationship with a male is with our fathers. It affects how we relate to men forever.
~ Graeme Simsion
Can it be that action is active resignation? Something is trying to develop; it moves ever so slightly, and there comes your man of action and bashes in the hothouse windows.
~ Gunter Grass
As far as I'm concerned the last good man went when Elvis died.
~ Jennifer Crusie, Bet Me
Only a handful of men and women leave an imprint on the conscience of a nation and on the history that they helped shape.
~ Barack Obama
Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
I see some parallels [with Barack Obama] but I don't see the leadership that this guy [John F.Kennedy] had of other men and women. It's more than being the smartest guy in room.
~ Chris Matthews
X-Men is massive, like nothing I've ever experienced. But great in its own way.
~ Ellen Page
It is only great men who take up a great space by not being there.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
It is not obligatory for a generation to have great men.
~ Jose Ortega y Gasset
Great men may die, but there ideas won't.
~ Kelly Nelson
Marriage is god's way to ensure there are few great men
~ Siddharth Katragadda
Great men are the modelers, patterns, and in a wide sense creators, of whatsoever the general mass of men contrived to do and attain.
~ Thomas Carlyle
To lead, you must touch men's hearts.
~ Abraham Lincoln
From William of Orange to William Pitt the younger there was but one man without whom English history must have taken a different turn, and that was William Pitt the elder.
~ Albert Bushnell Hart
Concern for man himself must always constitute the chief objective of all technological effort
~ Albert Einstein