Quotes About Impact

each new decision that a child or an adult makes in a given set of circumstances begins patterns of thought that later create a tremendous impact in his life.

Be careful the environment you choose, for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.

When he laughed, respectable senators burst with laughter,And when he cried the little children died in the streets.

Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.

Make sure it is God's trumpet you are blowing- if it is only yours it won't wake the dead, it will simply disturb the neighbours.

He shaped and molded that office to the contours of his own heroic stature.

Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.

As you always taught me, men who think have proven to be the most dangerous of all over the course of history," I said. "So have you been a dangerous man?"" I laughed. "I would like to think so.

All I have is a voice.

Poetry makes nothing happen.

A dead man who never caused others to die seldom rates a statue.

The true men of action in our time those who transform the world are not the politicians and statesmen but the scientists. Unfortunately poetry cannot celebrate them because their deeds are concerned with things, not persons, and are therefore speechless. When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes.

The words of a dead man Are modified in the guts of the living.

For poetry makes nothing happen.

Two hundred years from now nobody will care much about our politics. But if we were truly moved by the things that happened to us, they may read our poems.

You weren't going to the theatre to change the world, but you had a chance to affect the world, the thinking and the feelings of the world.

If a child has an older sibling involved in an addiction, there is a 90 percent chance that he or she will get involved too.

You never can tell when you send a word, Like an arrow shot from a bow By an archer blind, be it cruel or kind, Just where it may chance to go!

The young people have read my book. Now I have no chance.

You get one chance to make an impression and coasting through is a disservice.

Hundreds of thousands of kids now have a chance to be adopted because I worked to change our adoption and foster care system.

Without music, there is not the faintest chance [Bob Dylan] words would now be garlanded as they are.

Almost all the people who've had the most effect on me I seem to have met by chance, yet looking back it seems as though I couldn't but have met them.

When I was 12 years old, my pastor came to the church: Dr. Fredrick Samson. And that was revolutionary because he mentored me and I got a chance to see up close the impact of a rhetorical genius.