Quotes About Impact

A speechmaker's gravest sin is to leave the listener indifferent. I was determined not to be dull.

Today, nearly two-thirds of the citizens in EU countries believe immigration has a harmful impact on their societies. Cosmopolitanism, once considered a virtue, is less in vogue than nativism.

We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.

I wondered: what happens when a hundred thousand people memorize the same poem? Does anything change?

What happens when a hundred thousand people memorize the same poem? Does anything change?

You touch the world even if you do not want it to touch you. -Leona Montgomery

Parents who have more than one child are very aware that, while we certainly have an impact on our child's development, it has as much to do with them as with us. "I can't believe how different my kids are" should inform us that child development is an uneven process only partly tied to parenting (and no one knows exactly how much that "partly" is).

I would say, some people are like constellations that only touch the earth for a season.

some people are like constellations that only touch the earth for a season.

The words slid into me, smooth as a polished knife.

Indeed, he seemed utterly unaware of his effect on the boys around him.

Strange that such a small kindness felt like grace.

All those years I had spent with them were like a stone tossed in a pool. Already, the ripples were gone.

We are men only, a brief flare of the torch. Those to come may raise us or lower us as they please.

His presence was like a stone in my shoe, impossible to ignore.

But fame is a strange thing. Some men gain glory after they die, while others fade. What is admired in one generation is abhorred in another... We cannot say who will survive the holocaust of memory. Who knows? Perhaps one day I will be famous. Perhaps more famous than you... We are men only. A brief flare of the torch. Those to come may raise us or lower us as they please.

Several things happened at once then. Achilles - for it was Achilles - dropped Deidameia's hand and flung himself joyously at me, knocking me backwards with the force of his embrace.

The impact over the following centuries of Copernicus' leap away from the prejudices of anthropocentrism was felt across the whole spectrum of human investigation. We began to appreciate our place in the Universe was by no means central. Indeed, in many respects, it appeared to be almost peripheral.

are too many mouths to feed. One million three hundred thousand more every week! And of all the people who have ever been alive on Earth, more than half are living right now. We are gnawing the planet bare

You can be with a person for three hours of your life and have a friend. Another one will remain an acquaintance for thirty years.

But when they don't wear helmets, they abuse the taxpayers, taking a couple of weeks to die in intensive care, their primitive brains jellied by hard impact with the concrete highway. Somebody has to pick them up when they go down and deliver them to Emergency, regrettably.

Without a life example that speaks louder than words, even the most persuasive leader will fail.

The explosion of charity in the fourth century is one clear way in which Christ's teaching has impacted the history of western society.

Everything published goes down the same chute out of the overbright glare of publicity into oblivion.