Quotes About Impact

I got the wake-up call that no one is policing our oceans. I wondered, how can I do anything? What really can I do to make things better? There are some perks to being a celebrity. My job is to be funny once in a while, but it's my responsibility to make good use of it.

The Women's Sports Foundation holds a unique position in developing opportunities for girls and women of all abilities to be active whether recreationally or competitively, and I'm excited to help lead the organization to impact even more lives. It is an honor to continue to build the legacy created by Billie Jean King and all of our leaders.

There are some names that one can't even say in a normal voice because they lay open some nerve. I was frightfully in love with a woman once. Her name was Susan and she came from Norwich and she lived with her husband in Ovington Square. I fell out of love with her, and I haven't seen her or heard of her for years, but if I read or hear the words Susan, or Norwich, or Ovington, I go all queer.

That which we witness, we are forever changed by, and once witnessed we can never go back.

Los envidiosos poseen el don de hacer daño con la única fuerza de su pensamiento. Ellos pueden lograr que, en tus manos, las flores se conviertan en ortigas.

A man doesn't know what he thinks until a woman makes him think it.

All because Darke stuff stuck to me at work, and then I brought it home. Horrible.

long before medical science came along to offer any compensation for the entrapments of the modern social design. When a woman chooses whether or not to reproduce, the earth itself is choosing. With or without confirmation from man, this is the reality that the earth lives every day.

But books, she had found, were too powerful, and invariably misleading.

Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature

All through history, there have always been movements where business was not just about the accumulation of proceeds but also for the public good.

And remember this if you ever think you're too small to be effective -- you've never been in bed with a mosquito.

If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room.

If you think you're too small to make a difference, you've never been to bed with a mosquito.

The riots were a turning point in Ben-Gurion's

I thought about how one tiny decision can change a life. A decision that takes only a split second to make.

A person walks into a room and says hello, and your life takes a course for which you are not prepared. It's a tiny moment (almost-but not quite-unremarkable), the beginning of a hundred thousand tiny moments and some larger ones.

A single action can cause a life to veer off in a direction it was never meant to go.

Judy Blume: Some books you never forget. Some characters become your friends for life.

Nick Clark: Books are so important in conveying messages to children. We may not fully appreciate the impact of a book until we are older, but there are things that we learn from our reading.

I link all evils to the computer.

I don't have the life of a famous person. But I do feel like I've been able to connect with a lot of people.

There hadn't even been the casual bad language she used herself to show that she was tired or cross. But still he'd shocked them because his anger was deep and real. They'd spent a week carefully putting words together, but his rage had a greater effect than any of their stories.

I think eventually I want to become a teacher, like my father wanted to be, and hopefully positively influence the next generation.