Quotes About Impact

If you sell, say, two thousand copies, it is the same thing as if you had sold nothing at all because two thousand is too vast—I mean, for the imagination to grasp. While thirty-seven people—perhaps thirty-seven are too many, perhaps seventeen would have been better or even seven—but still thirty-seven are still within the scope of one's imagination.

A classic book is a book which generations of men, driven by various reasons, read with that same initial fervor and that same mysterious loyalty.

What will die with me the day I die? What pathetic or frail image will be lost to the world?

S? modifici trecutul nu înseamn? s? modifici un singur fapt, ci s?-i anulezi consecinÈ›ele, care tind s? fie infinite. Cu alte cuvinte, am putea spune c? înseamn? s? creezi dou? istorii universale.

Whatever one man does, it is as though all men did it.

O que um homem faz é como se todos os homens o fizessem. Por isso não é injusto que uma desobediência num jardim contamine a todos; por isso não é injusto que a crucificação de um único judeu baste para salvar todo o gênero humano.

Football is one of England's biggest crimes.

This frightened man mortified me, as if I were the coward, not Vincent Moon. Whatever one man does, it is as if all men did it.

Lo que hace un hombre es como si lo hicieran todos los hombres.

Todas las teorías son legítimas y ninguna tiene importancia. Lo que importa es lo que se hace con ellas.

As you grow older, you will have a decision to make. Will you focus more on the things that give you achievement and satisfaction and growth or on things that have an impact outside yourself?

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

A glance leaves an imprint on anything it's dwelt on.

the present engenders the past far more energetically than the other way around.

A bullet's velocity in low temperatures greatly depends on its target's virtues

We save the world by being alive ourselves.

Sentiment is an echo of violence. It's not really a vital expression.

Ah, I think that nothing in the world vanishes utterly—nothing—not only what is said, but what is thought. All our deeds and words and thoughts are little streams, trickling springs underground.

Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.

Plain horse sense ought to tell us that anything that makes no change in the man who professes it makes no difference to God, either.

America is Europe's greatest invention.

deaths by bullet per 100,000. In at number one is Colombia, with a whopping 51.8 whacks. Next is Paraguay with 7.4, then Guatemala, Zimbabwe, Mexico, Costa Rica, Belarus, Barbados, and the United States with 2.97—just ahead of Uruguay.

Crack cocaine is the contemporary beaver, an international fad that has radically altered the economics of the poorest, marginal people, indigenous America. The gangs are the tribes of the New World.

The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief—call it what you will—than any book ever written; it has emptied more churches than all the counterattractions of cinema, motor bicycle and golf course.