Quotes About Impact

If there's one thing I've learned in my years on this planet, it's that the happiest and most fulfilled people are those who devoted themselves to something bigger and more profound than merely their own self-interest.

Always remember you are needed in this world and that your commitment, character, and higher love make all the difference.

It takes just one, he says over and over. You hear that all the time in this business. One big case, and you can retire. That's one reason lawyers do so many sleazy things, like full-color ads in the yellow pages, and billboards, and placards on city buses, and telephone solicitation. You hold your nose, ignore the stench of what you're doing, ignore the snubs and snobbery of big-firm lawyers, because it takes only one.

Did you know that some of the counties in the coalfields have the highest rates of cancer in the country?

Well, in my world, our world, there are too many guns and too many bad things happen because of them." Pippin

with the damage meter still clicking away.

as well as depressing, but each day I feel like I'm making a small difference. We walked a kid out of prison last week. His parents were waiting by the gate, and everyone was in tears, including me. FYI—one

We never forget that we were twenty-four hours late at 9/11. This is our world. This is the pressure we're under. Sorry for the speech.

theory that a reduction in our population means

everyone felt some measure of relief. Drug trafficking was dealt a severe blow, though

After a tragedy, those with even the slightest connections to it often exaggerate their involvement and importance.

Such insults stunned Mary.

Amid this dynastic turmoil, sudden shock waves reverberated around Europe

It is almost impossible to exaggerate its significance.

For several minutes Mary stood stock still on the stage, clad in the color of dried blood:

more damaging loss to his reputation than that suffered thirty years before by his father, James IV

These four did not realize it, but they were coming down with the strange, capricious disease which came later to be known as radiation sickness.

In a city of two hundred and forty-five thousand, nearly a hundred thousand people had been killed or doomed at one blow; a hundred thousand more were hurt.

ABOUT a week after the bomb dropped, a vague, incomprehensible rumor reached Hiroshima—that the city had been destroyed by the energy released when atoms were somehow split in two.

Whatever you may have thought about Hillary Clinton, my daughter watched as a highly experienced and qualified woman lost a job to a neophyte dilettante cartoon character of a white man who openly bragged of molesting women. My daughter isn't dumb. She got the message.

As a father now myself, it's sobering to think about how the smallest comments will ripple through your children's lives, with some leaving permanent warps. I must console myself in the certainty that I am helping them and damaging them in other ways I cannot see.

I love my father. It's not his fault that he made up a fear and, in order to make it feel more real to him, gave it to me. I was obviously built to receive it. As a father now myself, it's sobering to think about how the smallest comments will ripple through your children's lives, with some leaving permanent warps.

I learned a strange thing... that in a jumble of unintelligible talk, the word nigger leaps out with electric clarity. You always hear it and it always stings. And always it casts the person using it into a category of brute ignorance. I thought with some amusement that if these two women only knew what they were revealing about themselves to every Negro on that bus, they would have been outraged.

the consequences of sex are often more memorable than the act itself.