Quotes About Impact

Once a photograph of the Earth, taken from outside, is available, once the sheer isolation of the Earth becomes known, a new idea as powerful as any in history will be let loose.

Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.

A vital film that needed to be made at this point in history and has been made magnificently.

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

History will dictate what my legacy is. And 'maverick' is fine, because I am.

If it was not for Rajiv Gandhi, urbanization in India would have been history.

Ideas shape the course of history.

The consciousness of the past weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living.

I am afraid that if you want to go down into history you'll have to do something for it.

Don't be shocked when your history book mentions me.

In history, good intentions do not always make good consequences

I never thought my cotton gin would change history.

One never really knows how much one has been touched by a place until one has left it.

Never in the history of the world has there been a situation so bad that the government can't make it worse.

I just want to make sure I'm contributing good films to movie history rather than being famous just to be famous.

History has never been dominated by majorities, but only by dedicated minorities who stand unconditionally on their faith.

History is the ship carrying living memories to the future.

Silence ensures that history repeats itself.

History is simply a piece of paper covered with print: the main thing is to make history, not to write it.

For words are magical formulae. They leave finger marks be hind on the brain, which in the twinkling of an eye become the footprints of history. One ought to watch one' s every word.

All the true heroes of history will be forgotten and all the villains will be remembered as heroes.

I've lived history. I've made history, and I know I'll have my place in history. That's not egoism.

Often the presence of mind and energy of a person remote from the spotlight decide the course of history for centuries to come.

The great force of history comes from the fact that we carry it within us, are unconsciously controlled by it in many ways, and history is literally present in all that we do.