Quotes About Impact

A force as of madness in the hands of reason has done all that was ever done in the world.

The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.

The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.

When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with its fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.

The history of the world is but a biography of great men.

Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.

History of the world is the biography of the great man. And I said: The great man always act like a thunder. He storms the skies, while others are waiting to be stormed.

If something be not done, something will do itself one day, and in a fashion that will please nobody

It is a mathematical fact that the casting of this pebble from my hand alters the centre of gravity of the universe.

Not what I Have," continues he, "but what I Do is my Kingdom.

Such I hold to be the genuine use of Gunpowder: that it makes all men tall.

Great Men, taken up in any way, are profitable company.

The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.

new-got gold is said to burn the pockets till it be cast forth into circulation, much more may new truth.

The Great Man was always as lightning out of Heaven; the rest of men waited for him like fuel, and then they too would flame.

To Langston Hughes and W. E. B. Du Bois, Bigger Thomas was more stereotype than sociology; to White Chicago, he just inspired fear. The deepest impact of Wright's success, though, was that he'd achieved it without the Rosenwald Fund, the NAACP, or any of the other institutional sources that usually supported black artists.

The war begins to make itself felt very near to us.

I remember the last time the Grateful Dead played in Seattle, at the Seattle Center. I was living there, and after the show, I was walking to work near there, and I'd never seen so much debris. There were mountains of garbage.

To be able to inspire somebody just by doing something that you love, just by creating your art, is something that's very near and dear to my heart.

Pickett's lines being nearer, the impact was heaviest upon them.

Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.

There is hard hitting, but the hitting is not nearly as hard as it used to be.