Quotes About Impact

You'd have to look hard to find Oliver's name in a history book. But in that small mining camp in Fayette County, West Virginia, Oliver did something important: he changed on life, and that life changed many.

I love Black Beauty, but it's just a story, of course. What matters is. . . I don't know. . . what you do once the story is inside you.

In the late 1800s, average consumption was 5 pounds a year per person; today, the figure has increased to an average of 135 pounds of sugar annually.(3)

if we don't take action now, we're choosing to stand by passively and watch as what passes for food today does nothing less than change both our health destiny and the arc of human evolution.

My love for my mother is like an axe. It cuts very deep.

Minnen är som bomber.

It's the curiosity that drives me. It's making a difference in the world that prevents me from ever giving up.

Trying to rescue your parents from their worst devils is hard on kids, you know? Makes 'em either mean or saintly or both.

You never know how a person you meet will impact your destiny. Reach out with an intent to serve, and see where that will take you.

a lack of influence is of course its own kind of influence.

People are naturally hardworking but will stop working hard at anything if they learn from experience that their effort makes no difference.

It's true--I can see it now--we are made of where we've come from, molded by landscape, weather, harbors, hunger, and war, as much as by individual ancestors. The experience of the place--its struggles, strife, and horrors--accrues, even if we haven't personally experienced it. We are, still, its inevitable consequence.

In all my memories, my father is unfailingly cheerful. It's my mother who is often unhappy, whose unhappiness I dread because I absorb it, as if I were a lightning rod grounding her sadness in my chest. When

When we think we are using language, language is using us.

Waardoor ontspoorde het leven? Het begint met een stap. Begint het kwaad met een uitgesproken woord, of de adem voor het woord, of de gedachte voor de adem? Uit Voor altijd vandaag

Nothing can change the facts. Others might lie or distort those things, but they never go away. Your choices, your actions are forever. You leave a footprint that can be followed if someone is determined to look closely enough.

What we say is never about what we say; what we say is about who we are talking to. What we say is a tool to change our hearers.

history has a way of intruding upon the present, and

We rarely know the full power of words, in print or spoken.

Barack Obama is the most famous living person in the history of the world.

Almost all first ladies have had tremendous power on personnel issues, whether the public realized it or not, whether it was Barbara Bush or Nancy Reagan or whoever.

It was sad when Sid Vicious died... I was freaked out when Phil Lynott died from Thin Lizzy. I cried. It was too crazy.

If we examine with clear eyes what we have done to the majority of people on earth, to the earth itself, and to all other forms of life thereon, we can only hope that there are no gods, or if there are, that they are not just.

Saya percaya ada proses surat-menyurat. Takdir yang interaktif. Bukan satu arah. Apapun yang Anda lakukan dan *pikirkan* akan berakibat penuh pada dunia. Terlepas dari Anda menyadarinya atau tidak.