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Quotes About Impact

I really believe that women run the art world.
~ Marilyn Minter
But as far as, for I think it will be amazing you know where I find myself years from now because of this film. It's just amazing, I think everybody's going to kind of know this film and because of it, me. So I you know it's crazy.
~ Brandon Routh
Os excessos em todas as coisas modelam os corpos segundo suas características. A bebedeira, como o estudo, engorda mais aos gordos e emagrece aos magros.
~ Honore de Balzac
When a cloud comes between two beings filled with affection for each other and whose lives are in absolute unison, that cloud, though it may disperse, leaves in those souls a trace of its passage. Either love gains a stronger life, as the earth after rain, or the shock still echoes like distant thunder through a cloudless sky. It is impossible to recover absolutely the former life; love will either increase or diminish.
~ Honore de Balzac
A quotation in a speech, article, or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.
~ Honore de Balzac
El contraste entre un lujo exagerado y una exagerada miseria es lo que impresiona antes que nada.
~ Honore de Balzac
I went out, leaving traces of my muddy boots on the carpet which covered the paved staircase. I like to leave mud on a rich man's carpet; it is not petty spite; I like to make them feel a touch of the claws of Necessity.
~ Honore de Balzac
France is the only country where some small phrase could bring about a great revolution.
~ Honore de Balzac
La potenza non consiste nel colpire forte o spesso, ma nel colpire giusto".
~ Honore de Balzac
For my own part, I know of nothing more dreadful to see than an old man's thoughts on a child's forehead; even blasphemy from girlish lips is less monstrous.
~ Honore de Balzac
I see the enormous value of a mother's presence because I live everyday with its absence.
~ Hope Edelman
It is the mountaintop that the lightning strikes.
~ Horace
A word once uttered can never be recalled.
~ Horace
Be ashamed to die unless you have won some victory for humanity.
~ Horace Mann
Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
~ Horace Mann
all the members of society have a direct interest in the manners of each of its individuals, because each one is a radiating point, the center of a circle which he fills with pleasure or annoyance, not only for those who voluntarily enter it but for those, who, in the promiscuous movements of society, are caught within its circumference.
~ Horace Mann
How many souls have been lost for lack of earnestness, solemnity, and love in the preacher, even when the words uttered were precious and true!
~ Horatius Bonar
How much more would a few good and fervent men effect in the ministry than a multitude of lukewarm ones!" said Oecolampadius, the German Reformer
~ Horatius Bonar
Without this, nothing else will profit. Not orthodoxy, or learning, or eloquence, or power of argument, or zeal, or fervor will accomplish anything without this. This is what gives power to our words and persuasiveness to our arguments, making them as either the balm of Gilead to the wounded spirit or sharp arrows of the mighty to the conscience of the stouthearted rebel.
~ Horatius Bonar
A happy childhood can't be cured. Mine'll hang around my neck like a rainbow, that's all, instead of a noose.
~ Hortense Calisher
It is my humble prayer that I may be of some use in my day and generation
~ Hosea Ballou
No reproof or denunciation is so potent as the silent influence of a good example.
~ Hosea Ballou
Maybe it's impossible for people to live their lives without hurting anyone.
~ Unknown
All of us dream of being part of something greater than ourselves. All of us want to make a contribution. The greatest contribution you make isn't in the money you give to charities. It isn't in the nonprofit foundations you establish. And it isn't in the work you do as a volunteer. Your greatest contribution to something greater, to the lives of others, comes in what you do from nine to five.
~ Howard Bloom