Quotes About Impact

the past that has not passed away

The Spanish Civil War was the first fought in Europe in which civilians became targets en masse, through bombing raids on big cities.

You can't undo actions with words.

If I could write a story that would do for the Indian one-hundredth part what 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' did for the Negro, I would be thankful the rest of my life.

I long to accomplish a great and noble tasks, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Not the senses I have but what I do with them is my kingdom.

The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

The world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

T)he world is full of people busily making things into how they think the world ought to be, and burning huge parts of it to the ground, utterly and accidentally destroying things in the process without even knowing they are doing so. And that any of us might be doing that without knowing it, any of us, all the time.

P)ulling at your heart on purpose is a compulsion as particular and disconcerting as pressing on a healing bruise.

Their existence gives the lie to the thought that the wild is always something untouched by human hearts and hands. The wild can be human work.

yellow made her so nervous that she suspected it was the cause of war.

You tell me what it is when some sensation leaves you for the space of one heartbeat and returns at double strength.

Rowan's physical effect- godlike jawline, long-lashed eyes, umber skin, rakish quiff of hair- is that of lightening strike.

Teacher appreciation makes the world of education go around.

Waking up to the suffering of people who are different from us is a long process, and has a whole lot to do with what community we belong to and whose consciousness and life experiences impact our own on a daily basis. I have a hunch I'm going to be waking up till the moment I die.

New York City, in a state with no death penalty, reduced its crime rate dramatically in the first four months of 1992 — murders declined by 11 percent — which many attribute to increased community policing.

It takes one woman twenty years to make a man of her son - and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.

George W. Bush is the worst President in all of American history.

When we smile at someone, we leave a tiny imprint on that person's brain. Somewhere, deep within their motor cortex, their brain is smiling back.

Making other people feel bad about themselves and their needs is a very powerful thing to do. Totally immoral, but powerful.

If you actually want to have an impact on other people's feelings and behavior, there is absolutely nothing more powerful, paradoxically, than fully listening to and accepting how they feel, and letting them know it.