Quotes About Impact

All men die, Genghis. All. Think what it means for a moment. None of us are remembered for more than one or two generations.

How you raise your sons and daughters matters. The wife who warms you at night matters. The joy you take in being alive, the pleasure of strong drink, companionship and stories. All that matters, but when you are dust, other men go on without you.

You have no idea what you have done.

an arrow doesn't care who it kills.

We only have one chance, even if the entire world rests on us.

I thought a man could throw his best years against enemies and then die, feared and loved both. I still think that. But when I am gone, the cities will rebuild and they will not remember me.

He threw the rock into the river and the little waves on the surface shall spread far away.

Who of us would have ended up where we are if someone hadn't had the good sense to interfere with us?

I want to be all used up when I die. Life is no brief candle to me; it is a sort of splendid torch which I've got a hold of for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

It took a while for me to grasp that my colleagues believe I have made an impact on the history of cinema.

Billions of people have seen and been influenced by movies in the short history of this industry.

heed Hugh Blair, a very emeritus Edinburgh professor whose advice from 1783 has stood the test of more than two centuries: "Remember . . . every Audience is ready to tire; and the moment they begin to tire, all our Eloquence goes for nothing. A loose and verbose manner never fails to disgust . . . better [to say] too little, than too much.

Muito mais trágico me parece o destino de quem atravessa a vida sem se molhar, como se os efeitos (felizes ou nefastos) escorressem sobre a pele como água sobre as plumas de um pato.

It's very simple, I just tell my sad story, and people weep.

I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life.

The revolution lasted six minutes and covered one hundred an twelve meters.

Water does nothing yet it penetrates everything. Inaction finds the road.

KENnEDY SHOT. OSWALD SHOT TOO.

None of us alone can save the nation or the world. But each of us can make a positive difference if we commit ourselves to do so. (p. 109)

We may think we are praising and encouraging the young by predicting great things for them, but the burden of our expectations may shame and crush them.

Across the nation, in sleeping towns and villages, lights flashed on. Quiet streets suddenly filled with sound as radios were turned up. People woke their neighbors to tell them the news, and so many phoned friends and relatives that telephone switchboards were jammed. In Coffeyville, Kansas, men and women in their night attire knelt on porches and prayed.

A slight concussion of the brain simplifies matters so beautifully. ("Three O'Clock")

How often it is a small, almost unconscious event that makes a turning point.

The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.