Quotes About Impact

The bottom line is that heat kills more people than any other natural disaster, and yet heat waves go unnamed.

The bottom line is that heat kills more people than any other natural disaster, and yet heat waves go unnamed. They do not blow in with 100-mile-per-hour winds, a blistering, swirling shadowlike image on radar with a defined eye, or shake the ground in an intense display of drama. No. Heat is a silent killer. It slowly and stealthily moves into a region like a ghost, targeting the vulnerable and unsuspecting.

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I am an utter unbeliever that anything that is violent will have permanent results.

The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use; some men have lived long, and lived little. You've done well, and honorably.

History is not simply the great tumults and tragedies but the accumulation of tiny moments and gestures.

Young Dmitri was impressed.

He was not very fond of music. Not because it didn't move him — but because it did. "It makes me want to say kind things, stupid things, and pat the heads of people," he admitted. "But now you have to beat them on the head, beat them without mercy.

I know now that no path is solitary, we all tread across other people's beginnings and ends.

I doubt if the effect of witnessing a total eclipse ever quite passes away. The impression is singularly vivid and quieting for days, and can never be wholly lost. A startling nearness to the gigantic forces of nature and their inconceivable operation seems to have been established. Personalities and towns and cities, and hates and jealousies, and even mundane hopes, grow very small and very far away.

It's not the things we get but the hearts we touch that will determine our success in life.

More and more they are relying on their gut—and their feelings—to make decisions. In fact, he said, it really doesn't matter how customers feel about you and your business. What makes a difference is how your products make them feel about themselves and their decisions.

As a leader, however, we must manage our attitudes. Do we need to be perfect? Of course not. But we can never underestimate the influence that our actions and our attitudes will have on our team.

A great writer is the friend and benefactor of his readers.

An arrow may fly through the air and leave no trace; but an ill thought leaves a trail like a serpent.

One attention from the right person, it's worth more than thousands attentions from wrong people

Becoming famous and selling a lot of records doesn't change a thing.

Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.

Like Nana was fond of saying, you might not remember what someone said, but you'll always remember how it made you feel.

The best book, like the best speech, will do it all - make us laugh, think, cry and cheer - preferably in that order.

I was a little girl in World War II and I'm used to being freed by Americans.

If you look at U.S. history through religious history, there is very much a motif that shows the importance religion has played in the U.S. We're a very religious country and it affects the way we look at various political issues.

the voice and force of the United States may count for nothing if they are withheld too long.

The institute is but one program, of modest size, at a single college. It isn't going to transform civilization or save it. However, by preparing young women for central roles in unraveling the mysteries of tomorrow, it is a contributor of value. That is all we can claim, and it is enough.