Quotes About Impact

La llama de un fósforo dura solo unos segundos, pero es capaz de incendiar un bosque.»

No alcanzabas el uno sesenta de estatura y con tu voz estentórea, tu seguridad, tu paso marcial opacabas a gente que te sacaba veinte centímetros. Yo era de esos que te rebasaban por una cabeza y aun así te recuerdo mucho más alto que yo. Si le preguntaras a quien te conoció cuál era tu estatura, con seguridad te situarían arriba del uno ochenta. Es extraño cómo una personalidad como la tuya puede cambiar el sentido de las proporciones.

En la obra de un escritor con talento puedes hallar una frase, una sola, que te cambie la vida. En un escritor mediocre lo más que podrás encontrar es corrección gramatical.»

The doctor's code is, 'First - do no harm.' The politician's code is, 'First - go on television.

He. Nobody spoke his name. Vidal. It sounded like a stone thrown through a window

Son los políticos que quieren dejar huella y nada más acarrean destrozos.

They often took a difficulty I had and turned it into an amusing little anecdote. They would take a deadly seriousness, my seriousness, and turn it into a great laugh that they would then let out into the room. What kind of people were they to do that? The amusing anecdote had sharp edges, flew into me and scratched my soul.

It is fair to say that in our quest for modernity we have demonstrated considerable ignorance concerning the impact of our inventions.

Few coffee drinkers realise how little of the biomass generated at a coffee farm is consumed,or the wastefulness associated with their consumption habits.

When individuals blunder, it is unfortuante and their families go down. When rulers fail, it is a national tragedy

When ordinary human beings err, it is sad, but when leaders do, it haunts us for generations.

Words prepare the way for deeds to come, detonate future explosions.

The memorable events of history are the visible effects of the invisible changes of human thought.

The violence of the feelings of crowds is also increased, especially in heterogeneous crowds, by the absence of all sense of responsibility.

However great or true an idea may have been to begin with, it is deprived of almost all that which constituted its elevation and its greatness by the mere fact that it has come within the intellectual range of crowds and exerts an influence upon them.

Ill-treat men as you will, massacre them by millions, be the cause of invasion upon invasion, all is permitted you if you possess prestige in a sufficient degree and the talent necessary to uphold it.

Les événements mémorables de l'histoire sont les effets visibles des invisibles changements de la pensée des homes

The great leaders of crowds of all ages, and those of the Revolution in particular, have been of lamentably narrow intellect; while it is precisely those whose intelligence has been the most restricted who have exercised the greatest influence.

Organize kitleler, toplumlar?n hayat?nda daima önemli bir rol oynam??t?r.

Soms valt het woord als een sneeuwvlok, Soms valt het woord als een steen, Zodat iedereen zegt: stil, daar valt een woord.

A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption.

I'm a big fan of doing 'Triple D.' But I don't want to do it forever, don't get me wrong! Travel away from my family, are you crazy? But do you know what it does for these mom-and-pop restaurant joints? It changes their lives forever. I mean, their businesses will never be the same.

It seemed to him that people must pass through each other's lives all the time, touch them, be touched by them. Leave something behind, maybe, like a star that fell – you became a memory.

You touched people's lives, glancingly, and those lives changed forever.