Quotes About Impact

It were purely like a snowball and everybody gave it a push...

Choices are like dominoes, one tumbling against the next and then the next until events go out of human control.

None of us is so mature that we cannot be influenced. The question is: Who or what do we want to shape our lives?

You see, Novelka, in an odd sort of way, some of our strongest relationships are with people who have died. We miss the person, we think of them, we wonder what they would want us to do, how they would want us to act. Though they are not here, they still strongly influence our lives. And so we go on loving them, sometimes even more, when they are gone.

[In response to a question about her legacy:] How about, "She changed the economic future of Texas." And that really beats what I feared my tombstone was going to say, and that was, "She kept a really clean house."

The day Somebody McSomebody put a gun to my breast and called me a cat and threatened to shoot me was the same day the milkman died.

how much I'd been thwarted into a carefully constructed nothingness by that man

There was the fact that you created a political statement everywhere you went, and with everything you did, even if you didn't want to.

The school should not bear all the blame, for without the cooperation of the home most of the best efforts are neutralized.

Teachers are learning that what they first, last and always are to keep steadily before their attention is the mind of the pupil, and the effects produced on that mind by the facts of reasoning presented, not the facts themselves.

She'd begun her story to divert him from his nightmare. Little did she know that what she described created its own nightmares.

Rhetoric is what shapes history, if not truth.

This vast life - the real, interior one in which we remain linked to the dead (because the dream inside us ignores trivialities like breath, or absence) - this vast life is not under our control. Everything we have seen and everyone we have known goes into us and constitutes us, whether we like it or not. We are linked together in a pattern we cannot see and whose effects we cannot know.

When Hitler came to power I was in the bath.

Tutto quello che abbiamo visto e tutti quelli che abbiamo conosciuto entrano in noi e ci costituiscono, che ci piaccia o no. Siamo collegati in un disegno che non possiamo vedere e di cui non possiamo conoscere le conseguenze. Un'imperfezione qui, un punto saltato là, una bozza tra le fibre, e l'intera stoffa sarà diversa una volta che è intessuta.

Costumes and scenery alone will not attract audiences.

We must save the world, one child at a time.

Every time you spend money, you're casting a vote for the kind of world you want.

I should meet many people who do not know anyone personally who has been raped or molested as a child. But I can't remember seeing a newspaper without a rape or molestation charge in it somewhere, and when I ask groups how many people know someone personally with a history of molestation, almost always, every hand in the room goes up.

Ali's phone call to me three years ago changed my life and put me on the road to where I am now. For that I will always be grateful.

That's when I decided the point of travel was not to observe history, but to change it.

Back then, she was certain she could change the world just by making commits to a text file repository,

Collective action means that when someone does something small or personal, their actions can change history too.

When you're a kid, you have these big ideas and these big dreams to make a change, or maybe you feel like you can't make a difference.