Quotes About Impact

One assiduous historian has recently estimated that approximately 170,000 slaves were introduced into North America between 1783 and 1810, with more than 100,000 of these arriving in the first decade of the nineteenth century.

100 percent of mass shootings have been enabled by access to guns.

We expect 2016 to be the warmest year ever, primarily because of climate change but around 25% because of El Niño"

I understand the fear surrounding this topic, but the fear is misplaced. We shouldn't be afraid of speaking about this, we should be more afraid of what not speaking about this can lead to. It can ruin relationships, destroy families, and in the most dire circumstances it can end lives.

Not that anyone minds--no one's paying attention to the music. Most of them never really listen to music. Practically no one actually does. Even at concerts people pay good money for, instead of a three-dollar cover charge, they talk through the whole thing. I feel sorry for them, since none of them understand what it's like to have a song just get into your soul and become your whole world. They don't know what it's like when a song changes your life.

The discovery of America, and that of a passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope, are the two greatest and most important events recorded in the history of mankind.

The path of a single man can be difficult but the results of what he does can be great.

the time spent on social media was negatively correlated with the amount of money in one's bank account and positively correlated with the amount of body fat on one's person

Educate a boy, and you educate an individual. Educate a girl, and you educate a community.

2. If attitude is so important, why bother about words? A parent's look of disgust or tone of contempt can hurt deeply. But if, in addition, a child is subjected to words like "stupid" . . . "careless" . . . "irresponsible" . . . "you'll never learn," he's doubly wounded. Somehow words have a way of lingering long and poisonously. The worst part is that children sometimes pull out

I'm a big personality. I walk into a room, big and tall and loud.

Your love makes me strong, your hate makes me unstoppable.

To this group belong not only the genuinely great statesmen but all the great reformers as well. Beside Frederick the Great we have men such as Martin Luther and Richard Wagner.

It is sobering to think on how thin a thread of fate the history of the world sometimes depends!

It is necessary that I should die for my people; but my spirit will rise from the grave and the whole world will know that I was right

Non si può valutare l'importanza del teorico dalla realizzazione dei suoi scopi ma soltanto dalla loro verità e dall'influenza che esercitano

Whoever will not be a hammer in history, will be an anvil.

O discurso de um estadista, falando ao seu povo, não deve ser avaliado pela impressão que o mesmo provoca no espírito de um professor de Universidade, mas no efeito que produz sobre as massas.

He was one of those characters who felt that a weak handshake could somehow damage his authority, which meant that every handshake had to bloody hurt.

A cocked .38 doesn't feel the same as an unprimed revolver. The frame tightens differently, the trigger is on a hair and this tension is communicated to you and the people around you.

The legal challenge was a lot like the challenge of demonstrating the impact of racism or poverty or substandard housing: How could you untangle the structural injustices from the self-inflicted damage? How could you separate neglect from malice, the intended from the unintended harms?

Whever I came into the room, she'd light up, so happy to see me. No one ever in the course of my entire life was ever as happy to see me as she was. Looking back, now, I realize that you only ever need one person who lights up that way when you enter a room. One person is all it takes to give a kid confidence.

I believe that every artist has a responsibility to use their platform to raise awareness about issues that are important to them.

Why is it that an insult stays with you forever, whereas love and praise passes through you like water through a sieve?