Quotes About Impact

He was liked when noticed, but not noticed much, and that did him no harm either.

If you wanted to divert a mighty river into a different course, and all you had was a single pebble, you could do it, as long as you put the pebble in the right place to send the first trickle of water that way instead of this.

Sticks and stones, I'll break yer bones, but names ain't worth a quarrel.

Still, Fritz was an optimist, and Karl was a pessimist, and that makes all the difference in the world.

Así como los seres humanos en general pueden influir en el clima, influimos en el lenguaje, y quienes lo utilizamos profesionalmente estamos obligados a cuidarlo.

His massive, plain, blunt presence was enough to calm them.

Then in a dazzling moment the black form of the spy-fly hurtled out of the tin and crashed hard into the monkey's face.

Lyra marvelled at the effect hope could have.

The intentions of a tool are what it does. A hammer intends to strike, a vise intends to hold fast, a lever intends to lift. They are what it is made for. But sometimes a tool may have other uses that you don't know. Sometimes in doing what you intend, you also do what the knife intends, without knowing. Can you see the sharpest edge of that knife?

Everyone becomes a part of history whether they like it or not and whether they know it or not.

other people's weakness can destroy you just as much as their strength can. Weak people are not harmless. Their weakness can be their strength.

It's so heartbreaking, violence, when it's in a house-like seeing the clothes in a tree after an explosion. You may be prepared to see death but not the clothes in the tree.

Of a terrible, the incomprehensible way one's most banal, incidental, even comical choices archive the most disproportionate result.

everything you say says either more than you wanted it to say or less than you wanted it to say; and everything you do does either more than you wanted it to do or less than you wanted it to do.

what his uneducated father had been trying so hard to teach him all along: of the terrible, the incomprehensible way one's most banal, incidental, even comical choices achieve the most disproportionate result.

I saw that everything you say says either more than you wanted it to say or less than you wanted it to say. What you said and did made a difference, all right, but not the difference you intended.

other people's weakness can destroy you just as much as their strength can. Weak people are not harmless. Their weakness can be their strength. A

Everything you say says either more than you wanted it to say or less than you wanted it to say; and everything you do does either more than you wanted it to do or less than you wanted it to do. What you said and did made a difference, all right, but not the difference you intended.

Do you believe Shakespeare's Shylock and Dickens's Fagin have been of no use to anti-Semites?

La narrativa o mueve montañas o es aburrida; o mueve montañas o se sienta sobre su propio culo

As a tourist, you become economically significant but existentially loathsome

Any good that I may do, let me do it now, for I may not pass this way again.

Most men just react to circumstances, but thinkers create the circumstances. If

How do I get a message across the timelines?