Quotes About Impact

I have seen in the most significant of circumstances, that some little thing always decides great events.

It is astonishing what power words have over men.

Men of genius are meteors intended to burn to light their century

The men who have changed the world never succeeded by winning over the powerful, but always by stirring the masses. The first method is a resort to intrigue and only brings limited result. The latter is the course of genius and changes the face of the world.

Un croquis vaut mieux quun long discours.Fr., A picture is worth a thousand words.

China is a sleeping giant; let him sleep, for if he wakes, he will shake the World.

Why and how are words so important that they cannot be too often used.

Men of genius are meteors destined to burn themselves out in lighting up their age.

Greatness be nothing unless it be lasting.

A good sketch is better than a long speech.

Waterloo will wipe out the memory of my forty victories; but that which nothing can wipe out is my Civil Code. That will live forever.

Conquests will come and go but Delambre 's work will endure.

A picture is worth a thousand words.

Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

Great men are meteors designed to burn so that earth may be lighted.

Un bon croquis vaut mieux qu'un long discours (A good sketch is better than a long speech)

One is more certain to influence men, to produce more effect on them, by absurdities than by sensible ideas.

Greatness is nothing unless it be lasting

Under a good administration, the Nile gains on the desert. Under a bad one, the desert gains on the Nile.

Es gibt keine andere Unsterblichkeit als die Erinnerung, die man im Geiste der Menschen zurücklässt.

Remember that you are a Black Swan.

La felicità, – lui disse, – sembra sempre niente, è come l'acqua, e si capisce solo quando è perduta. – È vero, – lei disse. E pensò un poco, e disse: – E anche il male che noi facciamo, è così, sembra niente, sembra una sciocchezza, acqua fresca, mentre lo facciamo. Se no allora la gente non lo farebbe, starebbe più attenta.

There is now converging evidence supporting the idea that offspring are affected by parental trauma exposures occurring before their birth, and possibly even prior to their conception.' Rachel Yehuda

When people talk of the indelibility of a strong memory, they speak of recalling exactly where they were when Kennedy was shot or the Challenger space shuttle exploded. But what a woman really remembers is her first period; now there's a memory seared into the brain with the blowtorch of high emotion.