Quotes About Impact

The unconsidered act of the poorest of men may fire the train that leads to the subterranean mine, and an empire be rent by the explosion.

Man brings all things to the test of himself, and this is notably true of lightning.

I wanted to contribute to the landscape tradition in art. By now I guess we are comfortable with the thought that man has been everywhere or affected everything in nature.

I left my mark on that man.

Poets, in their way, are practical men; they are interested in results.

Literature exists so that where one man has lived finely ten thousand may afterward live finely

I have wrought my simple plan If I give one hour of joy To the boy who's half a man, Or the man who's half a boy.

...it is prodigious the quantity of good that may be done by one man if he will make a business of it.

The good particular men may do separately, in relieving the sick, is small, compared with what they may do collectively.

No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing.

Branch Rickey made me a better man.

Hey man, did you see that? His body hit the street with such a beautiful thud.

Every new source from which man has increased his power on earth has been used to diminish the prospects of his successors.

We are all impacted by the failings of a news media that almost always chooses which stories to cover according to the priorities and perspectives of white men with private educations.

The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts.

No man ever flees from duty without incalculable hurt, not only to himself, but to others as well.

Fear of an enemy can often blind men to other hazards, not least the shape which they themselves make in the world.

Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day, teach a man to fish and he'll evolve to become so skilled at fishing he destroys the ocean and kills every last fish.

Those things [t hydraulic penises and prosthetic butts and all that] can be what's genuinely shocking about the movie [Swiss Army Man] because people wouldn't expect to be moved by any of it.

[Meeting Mandela] was the highlight of my career; to meet such a great man and a strong man and such a passionate man about sport and life will always stay with me.

But of all the animals, man holds the fate of the world in his hands.

Isn't it odd how the little things can change a man's entire life?

That the man in question should be Donald Trump, with all his personal flaws, challenges the United States and the world as never before in human history.

While the death of young men in war is unfortunate, it is no more serious than the touching of mountains and wilderness areas by humankind.