Quotes About Impact

The things we do pile up on us, weigh us down. Or hold us in place, at very least.

The exclamation point is a loud party-goer, demanding attention. Overdone, it can be annoying.

A great short story is about the fallout from one, shattering moment.

All that's left for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing.

Eleanor Roosevelt and others said polio changed Roosevelt, that it made him more compassionate. That may be so. But the first impact of the disease was to call forth elements of his nature that no one had seen before - elements that even he may not have known he possessed. His decision to defy polio was a critical moment in his life - perhaps the critical moment.

The authors make no connection between the failure of the United States to guarantee black civil rights in 1877 and the need for a civil rights movement a century later. Nothing ever causes anything. Things just happen.

As one example, David Norman Smith, a sociologist at the University of Kansas, points out that exceptionally intense violence occurs with significantly greater frequency in cultures where children are routinely physically or emotionally abused or denied affection.

Nevertheless, economic historians agree that the first Industrial Revolution was the most important event in the history of humanity since the domestication of animals, plants, and fire.

It goes without saying that a fine short poem can have the resonance and depth of an entire novel.

He will rattle your cage and then break your heart.

I should try to pass along the good that has happened to me. That's my responsibility as being part of this planet.

Do not commit the error so common among the young of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind, you have failed.

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Words strike the air and the mind, they act on the senses and on the soul.

La palabra golpea el aire y el espíritu, y obra sobre los sentidos y sobre el alma.

Time is there for a purpose, to keep things in order. Once you change chronology you change history. The past could eat up the present . . .

Hard words will break no bones: But more than bones are broken By the inescapable stones Of fond words left unspoken.

Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.

Nothing can be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon and left one unexpended effort which might have saved the world.

We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room, and be handed down to posterity with all the eclat of a proverb.

It is not what we think or feel that makes us who we are. It is what we do. Or fail to do...

As a brother, a landlord, a master, she considered how many people's happiness were in his guardianship! -- How much of pleasure or pain it was in his power to bestow! -- How much of good or evil must be done by him!

What a blessing it is, when undue influence does not survive the grave!

Letters are no matter of indifference; they are generally a very positive curse.