Quotes About Impact

A thermonuclear bomb hitting it directly would have been more humane.

That had always been the power of media in the hands of a good leader. To get individuals to feel as if the leader was speaking directly

lives that you have touched will remember you after you are gone and be thankful that you had shaped their lives for the better. There is even some source of comfort, with thoughts of a tearful memorial service filled with words of love and thankfulness that you had been part of their lives that

There is no such thing as a soldier. I see death as a private event, the destruction of the universe in the brain and in the senses of one man, and I cannot see any man's death as a contributing factor in the success or failure of a military campaign.

The person of a man may go, but the best part of him stays. It stays forever.

The breaking of so great a thing should make A greater crack: the round world Should have shook lions into civil streets, And citizens to their dens.

How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.

The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones.

I could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, Make thy two eyes like stars start from their spheres, Thy knotted and combined locks to part, And each particular hair to stand on end Like quills upon the fretful porpentine. But this eternal blazon must not be To ears of flesh and blood. List, list, O list!

How many ages hence Shall this our lofty scene be acted over, In states unborn and accents yet unknown!

Ill deeds is doubled with an evil word.

Ah, kill me with your weapon, not with words.

Action is eloquence.

One doth not know / How much an ill word may empoison liking.

And 'tis a kind of good deed to say well: And yet words are no deeds.

One good deed dying tongueless slaughters a thousand waiting upon that.

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it.

Give it time, I thought. I grow on people; I'm like an industrial solvent, I'll wear you down...

What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone?

It isn't where you're born in this world, it's what you do.

She knew that he had never seen her before. She knew the value of first impressions.

Andrew aveva preso dimora nel suo cuore o si era preso una parte del suo cuore, e niente sarebbe stato più come prima.

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.

A good speech should be like a woman's skirt; long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest.