Quotes About Impact

I couldn't know that we'd meet and the world would spin beneath my feet, and somehow ignite a million shades of beauty in my life. I couldn't know that I'd change how you saw, well, everything.

One reckless note can change everything.

It would be a lethal mistake to underestimate what she means to me.

The point is, the way to speak to the universal is through the particular. The broad message might appear to speak to everyone, but really it speaks to no one deeply. When you focus on the particular, even though it seems counterintuitive, by communicating just one thing to just one person, you say everything to everyone.

Anyone who says that women do not have influence in men's decisions makes a vast and stupid mistake.

I was touched by the millennial madness.

We die once when the last breath leaves our bodies. We die a second time when the last person speaks our name.' The first death is beyond our control, but the second one we can strive to prevent.

How often ... do we pass by a need, a life that could be changed with the smallest bit of effort? And it's not that we don't care but that we're driving so fast, all we see are the fence posts flashing by on the side of the highway? Maybe the first step in changing the world is in slowing down and looking through the fences.

Through one lighthouse, you guide many ships. Iola's words whispered in my mind. Was she thinking of the

The wounds we cause, while unintentional, still bleed.

you can't impact something you don't touch.

Secrets ain't a healthy thang, no matter how old they is. Sometimes the oldest secrets is the worst of all.

I wonder, sometimes, as we wander that graveyard, what will remain of me someday. Am I creating a legacy that matters, that will last? Will someone stand at my grave one day, wondering who I was?

Loads of gratitude are also due to the teams in art, design, production, marketing, publicity, and sales. Thank you for contributing your incredible talents. Without your work, stories would literally sit on shelves undiscovered and unread. You connect books to readers, and in doing that, you connect people to one another. If books can change the world, those of you who help bring them to the world are the change agents.

You know there is an old proverb that says, 'We die once when the last breath leaves our bodies. We die a second time when the last person speaks our name.' The first death is beyond our control, but the second one we can strive to prevent.

She thought of all the words that went unspoken in the world, throughout time: what happened to them, where did they go? What would happen if they were all spoken? How different would the world be then?

Politics is not a game. Thousands of people's jobs and services depended on what the GLC did, and they expected us to do the best we could.

me for walking too heavily on the wooden

Through their brainwork, the women had an impact on the fighting that went on.

the Signal Corps recruited U.S. switchboard operators who were bilingual in English and French and loaded them into ships bound for Europe. Known as the "Hello Girls," these were the first American women other than nurses to be sent by the U.S. military into harm's way. The officers whose calls they connected often prefaced their conversations by saying, "Thank Heaven you're here!

Women were more than placeholders for the men. Women were active war agents. Through their brainwork, the women had an impact on the fighting that went on. This is an important truth, and it is one that often has been overlooked.

As a black man, my hope is that I can touch more and more people all over the world of different races and different colours.

We're going to raise a lot of money for cancer awareness, give some to the American Cancer Society and hopefully make a big difference.

For the deeds of a man, not the words of a prophecy, are what shape his destiny.