Quotes About Impact

Many a revolution started with the actions of a few. Only 56 men signed the Declaration of Independence. A few hanging together can lead a nation to change.

When did we begin to lose faith in our ability to effect change?

My words are not that powerful. I started saying in 1985 I don't think we should have a music talking about ni**ers and b*tches and h*es. It had no impact. I've said it. I've repeated it. I still repeat it. To me, that's more damaging than a statue of Robert E. Lee.

Rap Is More Damaging Than Confederate Statues

A ballot is like a bullet. You don't throw your ballots until you see a target, and if that target is not within your reach, keep your ballot in your pocket.

I don't know much about kisses, but I can assure you that hers were no less fierce than a swarm of bullets tearing the air

No se mucho de besos, pero yo le aseguro que los suyos no eran menos feroces que un enjambre de balas despedazando el aire

A man may hate cruelty and lies, but if he's never given an opportunity to show what he's made of, no one will remember him when he dies.

No matter how careful we are, we all leave behind little bits of ourselves as we go about our lives.

Your body falling through space touches the deepest part of me.

But what if human beings themselves disappear?" I asked.

This visit by these two men made my pen go limp.

Like cars in amusement parks, our direction is often determined through collisions.

If government and media and all of us in the Australian tribe got together, and the rock industry, we'd just be the greatest cultural force the world has ever seen - we're such an amazing race.

Some day soon, perhaps in forty years, there will be no one alive who has ever known me. That's when I will be truly dead -- when I exist in no one's memory. I thought a lot about how someone very old is the last living individual to have known some person or cluster of people. When that person dies, the whole cluster dies,too, vanishes from the living memory. I wonder who that person will be for me. Whose death will make me truly dead.

I think we ripple on into others, just like a stone puts its ripples into a brook. That, for me, too, is a source of comfort. It kind of, in a sense, negates the sense of total oblivion. Some piece of ourselves, not necessarily our consciousness, but some piece of ourselves gets passed on and on and on.

I hope one day I will host my own charity event to give back to society.

I find that movies tend to fix the aesthetics of a story in people's minds.

It is true that those we meet can change us, sometimes so profoundly that we are not the same afterwards, even unto our names.

Ce n'est pas la première fois qu'un attentat secoue Tel-Aviv, et les secours sont menés au fur et à mesure avec une efficacité grandissante. Mais un attentat reste un attentat. A l'usure, on peut le gérer techniquement, pas humainement. L'émoi et l'effroi ne font pas bon ménage avec le sang froid. Lorsque l'horreur frappe, c'est toujours le coeur qu'elle vise le premier.

Ce n'est pas la première fois qu'un attentat secoue Tel-Aviv, et les secours sont menés au fur et à mesure avec une efficacité grandissante. Mais un attentat reste un attentat. À l'usure, on peut le gérer techniquement, pas humainement. L'émoi et l'effroi ne font pas bon ménage avec le sang-froid. Lorsque l'horreur frappe, c'est toujours le cÅ"ur qu'elle vise en premier.

News Limited, which was the bridge on which this American dialect crossed into Australian public life. Decades

In a thousand years, Fred, no one will even know or care we existed.

We should be more concerned with reaching the lost than pampering the saved.