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Quotes About Impact

A good history covers not only what was done, but the thought that went into the action. You can read the history of a country through its actions.
~ Benjamin Hooks
[The Fuhrer] is one of those lonely men of the ages on whom history is not tested, but who themselves are the makers of history.
~ Benito Mussolini
There would be no Lenin without Rasputin.
~ Robert K. Massie
The winner of this tournament doesn't just win a major. He become a part of the history of the game.
~ Phil Mickelson
A well-behaved woman seldom makes history
~ Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
It's surprising how often history is decided by something as trival as bad shellfish.
~ John Flanagan
Here's what I've learned: that someone can change the course of history with a box cutter.
~ Carrie Fisher
As history has repeatedly proven, one trade tariff begets another, then another - until you've got a full-blown trade war. No one ever wins, and consumers always get screwed.
~ Mark McKinnon
I won't make a mark on history. I have some importance in the time we live in, but that's all.
~ Pierre Berge
I do not believe there has ever been a name as important as Pierre Cardin in the general history of couture.
~ Pierre Cardin
The people I find most impressive are generally unknown at the time of their actions and forgotten in history.
~ Noam Chomsky
all history shows that the hand that cradles the rock has ruled the world, not the hand that rocks the cradle!
~ Clare Boothe Luce
We cannot escape history.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Many of us ask what can I, as one person, do, but history shows us that everything good and bad starts because somebody does something or does not do something.
~ Sylvia Earle
If every human rights atrocity is described as a Holocaust,[Adolf] Hitler's attempted obliteration of the Jewish people is diminished or de-recognised in our history.
~ Jeremy Corbyn
There's nothing wrong with being organized.Things that change history tend to be organized.
~ Mark Shields
We may not live in the past, but the past lives in us.
~ Samuel Pisar
It has been said that the gate of history turns on small hinges, and so do people's lives. The choices we make determine our destiny.
~ Thomas S. Monson
I think also there's no question that Lincoln has been diluted down through history in some way, almost by becoming as iconic as he is, in a way he's become diluted.
~ James Spader
Not only is history written by the winners, it is also made by them.
~ Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza
Longing on a large scale makes history.
~ Don DeLillo
More than ever before in history, individuals can now band together to solve grand challenges. We face enormous problems, but we 'as individuals' have enormous power to solve them.
~ Peter Diamandis
Once a president gets to the White House, the only audience that is left that really matters is history.
~ Doris Kearns Goodwin
Brezhnev wasn't a minus for the history of our country, he was a huge plus, He laid a foundation for the country's economics and agriculture.
~ Leonid Brezhnev