Quotes About Impact

Sometimes taking part in a great battle will be the thing that will help to change the course of history. But sometimes you can do that simply by smiling, for no reason, at someone you happen to pass in the street. Without intending to, you might have saved the life of a complete stranger, who also thought he was useless and might have been ready to kill himself – until a smile gave him new hope and confidence.

The girl would grow up marked by tragedy and, when she was twenty, would use her own suffering to help alleviate that of others. She would eventually do work of such vital importance that it would have an impact all over the world.

Setiap orang di dunia ini, apa pun pekerjaannya, memainkan peran penting dalam sejarah dunia. Dan biasanya orang itu sendiri tidak menyadarinya.

You can say what you like, but words won't change anything. I'm not happy.

Life without cause is a life without effect.

The unavoidable has touched the life of every human being on the face of the earth. Some have rebounded, others have given up--but all of us have felt the wings of tragedy brushing against us.

I only know that a life without cause is a life without effect.

Love was undoubtedly one of the things capable of changing a person's whole life, from one moment to the next. But there was the other side of the coin, the second thing that could make a human being take a totally different course from the one he or she had planned; and that was called despair. Yes, perhaps love really could transform someone, but despair did the job more quickly.

It does not matter if you can do 1,000 punches if none of them can knock out your little sister.

Because a lady wearing high heels leaves deeper footprints than an elephant.

The best thing in the world for each of us is that which we can best do, because it gives us the feeling of being useful. That's happiness.

It is easy to destroy but hard to create. Remember that, when you want to destroy something." The

When O-lan saw what he had done she burst out in terror, "You have cut off your life!

Lucinda's foolish words stuck in his mind like a flung dagger he could not pull out. They'd be in him always, maybe.

It is the highest reward when a writer hears when a book written in doubt and solitude, has reached a human heart with a deeper meaning than even the writer had been aware of, as she wrote. It is something extra, the unexpected return.

The idea that there could be one solution to breast cancer- screening, early detection, some universal cure- is certainly appealing. All of us, those who fear the disease, those who live with it, our friends and families, the corporations who swath themselves in pink, wish it were true. Wearing a bracelet, sporting a ribbon, running a race, or buying a pink blender expresses our hopes and that feels good - even virtuous. But making a difference is more complicated than that.

Words themselves are neutral. It's the charge we add to them that matters

When we start to ask ourselves, "Does it matter?" we realize how many aspects there are to every situation. We begin to appreciate how interconnected we are to the rest of the world, and how even our thought patterns can lead to a whole series of consequences

What we do accumulates; the future is the result of what we do right now.

You would rouse to anger a heart of stone.

Anger is like a ruin, which, in falling upon its victim, breaks itself to pieces.

One example is worth a thousand arguments.

With all the arguments and discussions about the Vietnam War, what did the visual image do? It ended the war.

We must reinforce argument with results.