Quotes About Impact

What constitutes a life well spent, anyway? Love and admiration from your fellow men is all that any one can ask.

There was a crash of thunder, the sky shattering right above our heads.

The sermon is now the true poppy of literature.

She thinks your lady-love will rule you as the moon rules the tides.

Human beings can easily destroy every elephant on earth, but we are helpless against the mosquito.

A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Tigers die and leave their skins; people die and leave their names.

When you're a nurse you know that every day you will touch a life or a life will touch yours.

Nurses don't wait until October to celebrate Make a Difference Day — they make a difference every day!

Each day of our lives we make deposits into the memory banks of our children.

The true power of the poet is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.

Besides, it happens (how, I cannot tell) that an idea launched like a javelin in proverbial form strikes with sharper point on the hearer's mind and leaves implanted barbs for meditation...

People who make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks. They amuse themselves and other children, but their little trick may upset a freight train of conversation for the sake of a battered witticism.

Epigrams succeed where epics fail.

Almost everyone, it seems, at first glance expects television to dig radio's final resting place.

Honk if you hate noise pollution.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. Scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable. A smile, accompanied by a kind word, has been known to reclaim a poor outcast and change the whole current of a human life.

A smile confuses an approaching frown.

Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.

Part of the reason why we feel these transitions so keenly is that we know that our lives matter.

Oppenheimer remembered a line from the Bhagavad Gita, the sacred epic of the Hindus. "I am become death, the destroyer of worlds." The

Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little.

Monotheism is easily the greatest disaster to befall the human race.

The aging chose the years of their youth, yet the young, who were not even born then, would have to live in those years. There was a certain injustice in that - choosing the time the next generation would live in. As happens in all elections, actually.