Quotes About Impact

He asked, May I kiss you? I stopped blinking. The six lanes of traffic stopped moving. That question made the world stop spinning. A chill ran up and down my spine. My hands opened and closed a thousand times.

A woman of European heritage sporting a preacher's collar had the opposite effect of a Muslim woman wearing a hijab. She used her privilege and the favored religion to look like a golden child.

It's funny how sometimes the people we remember the least make the greatest impression on us.

Brook's Law: "Adding more programmers to a late project makes it later.

The impact of McDonald's on the way we live today is hard to overstate. The Golden Arches are now more widely recognized than the Christian cross.

About eighty thousand people were killed in Hiroshima and more than two thirds of the buildings were destroyed because 0.7 gram of uranium-235 was turned into pure energy. A dollar bill weighs more than that.

A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.

I don't think you will ever fully understand how you've touched my life and made me who I am. I don't think you could ever know just how truly special you are that even on the darkest nights you are my brightest star

Books go out into the world, travel mysteriously from hand to hand, and somehow find their way to the people who need them at the time when they need them. Cosmic forces guide such passings-along.

Compiere un'azione notevole è meglio che essere notati».

La soddisfazione gli affinava il tiro, le sue lettere sarebbero state altrettante armi destinate a colpire tutti quelli che non avevano saputo credere in lui. Provava un piacere feroce a esistere. Quella sera stava bene, è vero, ma il giorno dopo sarebbe stato ancora meglio facendo del male agli altri. Vivere è un po' uccidere

What matters is the effect, not the process.

If one candle is brought into an absolutely dark room, the darkness disappears, and there is light. But if ten or a hundred or a thousand candles are added, the room will become brighter and brighter. Yet the decisive change was brought about by the first candle which penetrated the darkness.57

But man is not only made by history—history is made by man.

I am surprised how often even the smallest kindness can carry a disproportionate weight

You have no idea of what you are doing to me," he warned. She smiled. "Are you trying to frighten me? Because it is not working." "No, I can see that. Just as well because it is too late." "For you or for me?" "For me," he said. "I am lost." "That makes two of us." "Then I am not lost, after all. You have found me.

To conclude this discussion, assessment of justice demands engagement with the 'eyes of mankind', first, because we may variously identify with the others elsewhere and not just with our local community; second, because our choices and actions may affect the lives of others far as well as near; and third,because what they see from their respective perspective of history and geography may help us to overcome our own parochialism.

The case for doing what one sees as one's duty must be strong, but how can we be indifferent to the consequences that may follow from our doing what we take to be our just duty?

A computer can be more harmful than a gun and more useful than a pen.

Your present is responsible for each and every minute of your past and future

What one person does, several people usually consider.

No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind action leads to another. Good example is followed. A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves.

A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees.

S'appeler Plectrude, c'était à double tranchant : soit on était laide et ce prénom soulignait votre laideur, soit on était belle et l'étrange sonorité de Plectrude démultipliait votre beauté.