Quotes About Impact

No man ever yet thought whether he was preaching well without weakening his sermon.

I don't know if human activity is the only cause, but mostly, in great part, it is man who has slapped nature in the face, we have in a sense taken over nature.

He who injures one man threatens many.

I think Barack Obama is an amazing man and president. His legacy is ongoing.

I don't have to write jokes. I don't have to write insults. If you ask the man of the hour in the hot seat, my mere existence is clearly insult enough.

The world leaves no track in space, and the greatest action of man no mark in the vast idea.

The machine unmakes the man. Now that the machine is so perfect, the engineer is nobody.

One single idea may have greater weight than all the men, animals, and machines for a century.

Those who have ruled human destinies, like planets, for thousands of years, were not handsome men.

It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence, whether a man be behind it or no.

The role James Baldwin played in my life is incommensurable as stated above. He helped, along with a few others, to shape the man that I am today. My debt to him is invaluable.

Some men live with an invisible limp, stagger, or drag a leg. Their sons are often angry.

Men make history. History does not make the man.

Men make history, not the other way around.

It is the man determines what is said, not the words.

Of all the men who were said to be my contemporaries, it seemed to me that John Brown was the only one who had not died.

An efficient and valuable man does what he can, whether the community pay him for it or not.

The words of some men are thrown forcibly against you and adhere like burrs.

A man's whole life is taxed for the least thing well done. It is its net result.

Every man should stand for a force which is perfectly irresistible.

If ever I did a man any goodof course it was something exceptional and insignificant compared with the good or evil which I am constantly doing by being what I am.

Let no man imagine that he has no influence.

A man who works evil against another works it really against himself, and bad advice is worst for the one who devised it

I had grown men cry. I mean, literally.