Quotes About Impact

And the church does not exist for us. We are the church, and we exist for the world.

But have we reached a point where technology and social media can hurt us as much as they help us?

A lie believed as truth will affect you as if it were true.

It's the small choices no one sees that result in the big impact everyone wants.

One more time, because this point is crucial: a lie believed as truth will affect your life as if it were true.

Sticks and stones can bruise your body for a few days, but words can scar your soul for life.

You have no idea what God might set into motion through one single word of encouragement."-Craig Groeschel 6/3/17

slogans about smoking: "Cigarettes are killers that travel in packs.

Makes you feel better when you shoot people . . . You ought to try it sometime.

looking at the piles around us—they were like literary land mines just waiting to explode minds.

Some fires can't bear to dampen and can provide heat even from the distance of time. As

Kind of like the tree that falls in the forest when nobody's around? I mean, if nobody remembers the history, did it still happen?

If no one remembered them, were they ever really here?

I thought about the damage we all did in life simply by being ourselves and getting up in the morning.

Words are important, no matter what the language—they are perhaps one of the most powerful things we have. Words can preserve life or invoke death and should be handled with the same care as any deadly weapon.

Sometimes all it takes is one small act of heroism to chart a new path for history

Mark Twain's adage: thunder is impressive, thunder is loud, but it's lightning that gets the job done, even in one-mile-an-hour increments.

That's the problem with guilt, it's a two-way street; our children have to live with the things we do, and sometimes we have to live with their actions.

Bolt actions speak louder than words.

Words. Words had the power of exactly, precisely nothing. Hand grenades blow shit up. They meant something when they landed next to you. Words meant someone was talking, nothing more.

Sometimes people identified too strongly with the famous—it was one of the prices of notoriety, especially when so many considered you to be a hero. Batman sometimes filled much too large a hole in people's lives.

What I'm feeling, I think, is joy. And it's been some time since I've felt that blinkered rush of happiness. This might be one of those rare events that lasts, one that'll be remembered and recalled as months and years wind and ravel. One of those sweet, significant moments that leaves a footprint in your mind.

I looked at the road below. It was a long way down. I focused on the spot where I would probably land, between the white line and the brown gravel. I wondered if it would hurt or if I would die straight away. Then I wondered who would find me. Maybe it would be a truck driver or a shift worker. I felt bad for them.

As to the impact of all the "active measures" undertaken by Russia leading up to the 2016 election, it is difficult to quantify exactly how much they changed the outcome of the presidential race. However, according to the study by the University of California at Berkeley and Swansea University in Wales, automated tweeting alone by thousands of bots added 3.23 percentage points to Trump's vote in the US presidential race.77