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Quotes About Impact

Little by little the look of the country changes because of the men we admire.
~ Melvyn Douglas
The good man makes others good.
~ Menander
A book is a loaded gun in the house next door...Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man?
~ Ray Bradbury
The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms.
~ Henri Frederic Amiel
The climate system is being pushed hard enough that change will become obvious to the man in the street in the next decade.
~ James Hansen
Imagine if you could actually be that happy? That would be powerful, man. People would be tunneling under the street to avoid you. They'd go 'Oh, man - is that happy guy still out there?'
~ Jim Carrey
Show me the man who has enjoyed his schooldays and I will show you a bully and a bore.
~ Robert Morley
The man who thinks only of his own generation is born for few.
~ Seneca the Younger
Man cannot really improve himself without improving others.
~ Charles Dickens
It was the short men that caused all the trouble in the world.
~ Ian Fleming, Goldfinger
Universal history, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here.
~ Thomas Carlyle
He (Jeremy Clarkson) is the last man standing on the beach commanding the glaciers' melt waters to go back
~ A. A. Gill
You cannot help small men by tearing down big men.
~ Abraham Lincoln
All the kindness which a man puts out into the world works on the heart and thoughts of mankind.
~ Albert Schweitzer
One cannot create an art that speaks to men when one has nothing to say.
~ Andre Malraux
Let a man in a garret but burn with enough intensity and he will set fire to the world.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.
~ Bernard Baruch
I regret being the richest man in the world because that position attracts undeserved publicity.
~ Bill Gates
The more able a man is, if he make ill use of his abilities, the more dangerous will he be to the commonwealth.
~ Demosthenes
I was born and raised in St. Louis, and this little town, eight blocks away, place no one ever heard of, a black man there commands the attention of the world for months? That ain't my world.
~ Dick Gregory
Progress should have stopped when man invented the bicycle.
~ Elizabeth West
I saw a great many men die afterwards, some suffering horribly, but I do not recall any death that affected me quite so much as that of this first victim in my platoon.
~ Fritz Kreisler
There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up of thousands of others.
~ George Matthew Adams
Every man's happiness is built on the unhappi-ness of another.
~ Ivan Turgenev