Quotes About Impact

If Elvis Presley had been a bowhunter, he'd probably be alive today.

They say the oil spill has the potential to kill more wildlife than a Sarah Palin hunting trip.

"That's sad," said Montag, quietly, "because all we put into it is hunting and finding and killing. What a shame if that's all it can ever know."

We have to devise means of making known the facts in such a way as to touch the imagination of the world

The story must spring from an impression or perception pressing enough to have made the writer write. It should magnetize the imagination and give pleasure.

I'd never done anything that required a five-year commitment. To build a show that seems to have kept the imagination of the world so much was a bit otherworldly.

It's hard to land a devastating jab/cross/hook/uppercut combo to your reader's imagination when you're telegraphing your punches.

The imagination is of so delicate a texture that even words wound it.

India Conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border.

If the American Revolution had produced nothing but the Declaration of Independence, it would have been worthwhile.

A cause that only serves me is much like a door on the edge of a cliff, it doesn't open to anywhere good.

If you aren't making waves, you aren't kicking hard enough.

If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.

There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.

The good building is not one that hurts the landscape, but one which makes the landscape more beautiful than it was before the building was built.

Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.

Let it not be said that I was silent when they needed me.

Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it and, above all, accurately so they will be guided by its light.

Do not think your single vote does not matter much. The rain that refreshes the parched ground is made up of single drops.

Just as one candle lights another and can light thousands of other candles, so one heart illuminates another heart and can illuminate thousands of other hearts.

Courage, my friend, it's not too late to make the world a better place.

No good decision was ever made in a swivel chair.

Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me ... Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful... that's what matters to me.

You never have to advertise a fire. Everyone comes running when there's a fire. Likewise, if your church is on fire, you will not have to advertise it. The community will already know it.