Quotes About Impact

For the first time since life appeared on earth, one species- us- is single-handedly altering the physical, chemical and biological nature of earth. We have become a force of nature

Elvis saved my life when I was 13 or 14. He saved all our lives.

The choices that you make will shape your life forever.

One cannot always summarize massive issues by looking at the life of one person or one family, or even one community.

What if one out of every three multinational corporation CEO's were raped every year? Don't you think that would raise a kind of ruckus?

We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why.

Prove to the world that you are alive, let your words breathe life into the nostrils of the universe.

After graduating in the summer of 1980, I knew I wanted my life to count.

But the rule seems to be that the bigger and more life-changing the decision, the less it will seem like a decision at all.

A good album can make your day. A great album can change your life.

Life is fired at us point blank.

I'm interested in impacting people with life lessons that they can pass on. A touchdown is only remembered for one Sunday, but a lesson that can be passed on to your kids is Paramount.

This gets back to the fundamental lesson of political survival that Bill Clinton taught me, which is if you make it about the American people's lives instead of your life, you're going to be okay.

I have not wasted my life trifling with literary fools in taverns, as Johnson did, when he should have been shaking England with the thunder of his spirit

To think of the part one little woman can play in the life of a man, so that to renounce her may be a very good imitation of heroism, and to win her may be a discipline.

When an individual fear or apathy would cause us to pass by the unfortunate, then life is of no account.

You have to understand the purpose of life. The purpose of life is to do something which will live forever.

THE most important day I remember in all my life is the one on which my teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, came to me

A happy disposition is largely a disposition to make others happy. One life permeates all things, and there is no corner of the cosmos too remote to feel its heart throb.

My grandmother had the most dramatic effect on my life because she set me in one direction, and I had to go back the other direction for my sanity, and for my ability to be a social human being.

Life does more than adapt to the Earth. It changes the Earth to its own purposes.

I suppose meeting people whether it's in real life and actually shaking their flesh and blood hand or shaking the mystical hand of the character all rub off on you in some way.

I know I've had an unusual beginning and a colourful life, but that wouldn't matter if I couldn't make it speak to other people.

Imbuing fiction with a life that extends beyond the last word is in some ways the goal: the ending that goes beyond the ending in the reader's mind, so invested are they in the story.