Quotes About Impact

It's people like you who change history. People like me--we just let things happen to us.

more powerful than all the armies in the world is an idea whose time is come'.

No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he only had good intentions. He had money as well.

No-one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions; he had money as well.

I don't think there will be a woman prime minister in my lifetime.

You meet thousands of people and none of them really touch you. And then you meet one person and your life is changed forever".

You make me come alive- too alive. It's breathless, like a disaster. Ravishing, like crossing over into the desert and losing your bearings. Nothing's the same again.

Tall, elegant, vital, scornful. A man like that could rock a woman to her very core.

Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful

Never doubt that you can change history. You already have.

I want to do something very important. Like fly into the past and make it come out right.

I think sometimes the biggest influence isn't what's present in your life, but what's absent. Those missing pieces that shape you and change you, the silences that are louder than the noise.

sometimes the biggest influence isn't what's present in your life, but what's absent. Those missing pieces that shape you and change you, the silences that are louder than the noise.

What a pity, when Christopher Colombus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.

I think it's really important to maintain a positive attitude. It might not solve all your problems, but keep it up long enough and it will piss off enough people to make it worthwhile.

you can molest someone without touching them, without even saying anything. Just the inappropriate desire can be harmful.

People never think, until it happens to their place, that all construction is destruction. The whole planet is paved in the dead, who are ignored so the living can dig their foundations.

Mom, you know what? I just realized you have a knack for making people disappear. [Lella's son catches on!]

The greatest sign of success for a teacher is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist.

Well-behaved women never make history.

Acts committed in the heat of passion as much as acts of heartfelt compassion have the power to disenchant

I hope to be around past the 90's. I don't want to just be categorized as one of this era. My goal is to have a career that stands.

Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it.

The right word is always a power, and communicates its definiteness to our action.