Quotes About Impact

If a person has known love, has felt and given love, that person's life has made a difference.

In America, the advent of the modern serial killer coincided absolutely with the coming of the automobile.

I make no manner of doubt that you threw a very diamond of truth at me, though you see it hit me so directly in the face that it wasn't exactly appreciated, at first.

Abraham Lincoln. When he met Stowe, it is claimed that he said, "So you're the little woman that started this great war!

Perhaps," said Miss Ophelia, "it is impossible for a person who does no good not to do harm.

Oh my Eva, whose little hour on earth did so much good... what account have I to give for my long years?

Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good not to do harm.

privacy shifts into secrecy when an act of deliberate concealment or hiding has a significant impact on a relationship process

I think what a lot of action movies lose these days, especially the ones that deal with fantasy, is you stop caring at some point because you've lost human scale.

Prosperity often subverts what adversity cannot destroy

Remember the Butterfly Effect. Tiny cause, huge effect. A

The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice.

If a man tried to take his time on earth and prove before he died, what one man's life could be worth, well I wonder what would happen to this world?

Now sometimes words can serve me well Sometimes words can go to hell For all that they do

You want people walking away from the conversation with some kernel of wisdom or some kind of impact.

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Our power is not so much in us as through us.

The Horatian Spanish poet Antonio Machado defined poetry as 'a few true words', a definition that sounds minimal, even despairing, until you reflect on what a few true words can do.

Life after death means for us that part of our life that lives on in our children, in the influence that survives us after death, and the memories people have of us.

suppose he were to donate a laboratory to Brandeis or even to Harvard? The

Van zijn wieg tot zijn afwezige graf was de blijdschap die hij had verspreid steeds toegenomen. Eerst, bij zijn geboorte, waren alleen zijn ouders blij; later maakte hij het hele Duitse volk blij, vervolgens ook het Oostenrijkse; en toen hij stierf was de hele mensheid blij…

Van het bed keek zij hem aan en zei na een tijdje: 'De oorlog is pas afgelopen, wanneer de laatste die hem mee heeft gemaakt, is gestorven.

What sticks with her students long after they're gone and grown up is the feeling that, as children, this adult treated them as human beings.

It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.