Quotes About Impact

If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.

You make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true and also fierce, you cannot hurt the world or even seriously distress her.

No one can tell that he may not some day set a stone rolling or take or neglect some ordinary step which in its consequences will alter the history of the world.

First we shape our buildings; thereafter, they shape us.

In every age there comes a time when a leader must come forward to meet the needs of the hour. Therefore, there is no potential leader who does not have the opportunity to make a positive difference in society.

I have lost my heart! … Fascism has rendered a service to the entire world.

I have made more bishops than anyone since St. Augustine.

No one can understand history without continually relating the long periods which are constantly mentioned to the experiences of our own short lives. Five years is a lot. Twenty years is the horizon to most people. Fifty years is antiquity. To understand how the impact of destiny fell upon any generation of men one must first imagine their position and then apply the time-scale of our own lives.

British influence is healthy and kindly, and makes for the general happiness and welfare of mankind.

when our lives have faded, history will pronounce its cool, detached, and shadowy verdict.

A situation had been created where hundreds of officials had only to do their prescribed duty to their respective countries to wreck the world. They did their duty.

lines from Byron's Childe Harold: Here, where the sword United Nations drew, Our countrymen were warring on that day! And this is much—and all—which will not pass away.

The tail of China is large and will not be wagged.

By what process could the slaughter of ten million men and the destruction of one-third of the entire savings of the greatest nations of the world have ushered in a Golden Age?

Harper saw a dark young guy, trying to stop from laughing so much. By some trick of perspective the tracers illuminated Sam's profile with a halo of fireflies. Something about him touched Harper, so that long after the gunship had swung low and away Sam's image remained on his retina.

Nie, Kancie! Twoja Krytyka, cho?by najbardziej Å›cisÅ'a i najgÅ'Ä™bsza, w siódmych potach pisana, nie wystarczy. SiekierÄ™ zÅ'ap! ZÅ'ap, mówiÄ™, siekierÄ™, wpadnij z siekierÄ… i ciach, na prawo i lewo, dzieci i kobiety, mÅ'odzie? i robotników, i w ogóle wszystkich, tak, wszystkich i wszystkich!... TÄ™pienie gÅ'upoty nie mo?e odbywa? siÄ™ tylko na papierze!

I jego jazda, jego pÄ™d w przestrzeni, nie dawaÅ'y siÄ™ porówna? z ich jazdÄ… — byÅ'a to jazda o wiele donioÅ›lejsza, mo?e nawet gro?na...

A man dies... only a few circles in the water prove that he was ever there. And even they quickly disappear. And when they're gone, he's forgotten, without a trace, as if he'd never even existed. And that's all.

A team of horses cannot overtake a word that has left the mouth.

La manera más eficaz de sacar a alguien de tu vida es echártelo encima. Cargarlo todo el tiempo, para que hasta cuando sonría te parezca insoportable. Crear una incomodidad artificial para que esté ahí siempre, que te despiertes y le mires la jeta y sientas como ganas de no haber despertado.

In a healthy individual, a broken bone that has healed properly is strongest where it was once broken. You have not lost any life, Henry told himself. You will still get your fair share of years. Yet the quality of his life changed. Once you've been struck by violence, you acquire companions that never leave you entirely: Suspicion, Fear, Anxiety, Despair, Joylessness. The natural smile is taken from you and the natural pleasures you once enjoyed lose their appeal.

I was more afraid that in a few words thrown out he might destroy something that I loved. What if his words had the effect of polio on me? What a terrible disease that must be if it could kill God in a man.

The sound would disappear, but the hurt would linger, like the smell of piss long after it has evaporated.

It is true that those we meet can change us