Quotes About Impact

All it takes is a single moment.

But what use was the semblance of power without the substance?

In a second, fate can send a bus crashing into you and change your life---or not.

Our goal is to make finance the servant, not the master, of the real economy.

We, ironically known as the civilizados - in practically everything that matters they're a damned sight more civilized than we are - bring them so-called progress, which harms them, so-called change, which harms them, so-called civilization, which harms them even more, and desease, which kills them.

Funerals are the rituals we create to help us face the reality of death, to give us a way of expressing our response to that reality with other persons, and to protect us from the full impact of the meaning of death for ourselves. Some funerals fulfill these functions beautifully. Others fail.

If you go on stage with the wrong attitude, or something in your performance is off, you can lose an audience in the first minute. That first minute is crucial.

Burning one hectare of grassland gives off more, and more damaging, pollutants than 6,000 cars. And we are burning in Africa, every single year, more than one billion hectares.

Some folks is meant to make excuses. Some folks is meant to make history.

They were blown off my feet when the South Tower collapsed

The status quo is not a likely option- we will improve our world or we will destroy it

Sometimes it's the things we don't say that haunt us the most.

Decisions can be like car accidents, sudden and full of consequences.

In death, we are not defined by what we did or who we were but by what we meant to others. How well we loved and were loved in return.

The times you don't make it are the ones children remember, not the times you do.

They occupied a space in her life, but they didn't take up space, which were two very different things.

You know, Ms. Morgan, that was your mother you just hammered," Mr. Solomon said.

It's the people you hold closest who have the most power to make you bleed.

Despite popular belief, hitting someone with a closed fist actually hurts the hitter almost as much as the hittee.

The gentlemen would like to know if'- he cleared his throat- 'that boom was as bloody brilliant as they thought it was.

You never know how you're going to react to something. To anything. Tragedy, joy, heartache. They affect us all in different ways in different times and different places.

I've been back less than two weeks, and already I've turned the sweetest girl on Embassy Row into a thief and a conspiracy theorist. Even for me, it is an impressively quick act of corruption.

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words from stupid Russian kidnappers can never hurt me.

Small changes. Big differences