Quotes About Impact

Great books are the ones that are urgent, life-changing, the ones that crack open the reader's skull and heart.

People can make symbolic gestures but doesn't mean their life changes. One philanthropic moment doesn't make a life of renewal; of change.

The secret to a fulfilled life is not only to do well but also to do good.

One decision can change your life forever.

Being on a television series is sort of life-altering on every level.

English fiction was something I loved growing up, and it changed my life - it changed the trajectory of my life.

Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life is ended, leaves the memory of himself behind him.

That's what she [Hillary Clinton] is done with everything all her life. She just makes something good happen, and that's what you need.

I first saw Dead Man in high school, and it changed everything. That movie was like a memory to me - I would get things that occurred in that movie confused with my actual life.

Books that change you, even later in life, give you a kind of electrical shock as the world takes a different shape.

I'm dedicated to bringing to life what the author is trying to portray. I try to make the producers cry and the crew laugh.

A vast deal of ingenuity is wasted every year in evoking the undesirable, in the careful construction of objects which burden life. Frankenstein was a large rather than an isolated example.

Our way of life is at stake, our grandchildren are at stake, the future of civilization is at stake.

We used to build temples, and museums are about as close as secular society dares to go in facing up to the idea that a good building can change your life (and a bad one ruin it).

Help me to fling my life like a flaming firebrand into the gathering darkness of the world.

Sometimes you may make an announcement about an investigation and then you turn out not to do anything about it, but nonetheless it adversely affects someone's life.

[George W.] Bush's presidency was one of the great nightmares of my life to date.

You can destroy a factory, and they'll build another. But once you destroy a life, that's it. You never get that person back.

I have watched lives change. I have seen women gain confidence.

Some people in your life Touch you so very deeply That you drown totally in that depth.

I've met Nelson Mandela a couple of times and it was an unbelievable experience on both occasions; the most amazing moment of my life.

Im never looking at life in terms of legacy.

People talk about 'lives of significance'-as if there's an alternative. If you're not leading a life of significance, you're not living.

To actually feel like you've done something good with your life and you're useful to others is what I was always wanting, and was always looking for.