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Quotes About Impact

The Super Bowl wasn't that big. It was just a game.
~ George Blanda
The most superficial student of Roman history must be struck by the extraordinary degree in which the fortunes of the republic were affected by the presence of foreigners, under different names, on her soil.
~ Henry James Sumner Maine
I worry that the superficial way we read during the day is affecting us when we have to read with more in-depth processing.
~ Maryanne Wolf
The Great Idea in advertising is far more than the sum of the recognition scores, the ratings and all the other superficial indicators of its success; it is in the realm of myth, to which measurements cannot apply.
~ Leo Bogart
I do a lot of things for effect, which is not to say I am superficial, but that I know how to put ideas across.
~ Sebastian Horsley
Kid's culture is often dismissed as superficial, like high fibre McDonald's, but it's so much more important than that.
~ Morris Gleitzman
If the film is not emotional, then it operates on a superficial level.
~ Emir Kusturica
Foreign players are great for Serie A if they add something extra, but a lot of them are superfluous.
~ Fabio Quagliarella
It is so important for girls and boys to have a female, strong superhero to look up to.
~ Gal Gadot
You don't have to be a superhero to change the arc of history.
~ Chieh Huang
There exists a creature which is perfectly harmless; when it passes before your eyes you scarcely notice it and forget it again immediately. But as soon as it invisibly gets somehow into your ears, it develops there, it hatches, as it were, and cases have been known where it was penetrated even into the brain and has thriven devastatingly in that organ, like those pneumococci in dogs that gain entrance through the nose. This creature is one's neighbor.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
in those small towns you come to realize how the cathedrals utterly outgrew their whole environment.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Es giebt ein Wesen, das vollkommen unschädlich ist, wenn es dir in die Augen kommt, du merkst es kaum und hast es gleich wieder vergessen. Sobald es dir aber unsichtbar auf irgendeine Weise ins Gehör gerät, so entwickelt es sich dort, es kriecht gleichsam aus, und man hat Fälle gesehen, wo es bis ins Gehirn vordrang und in diesem Organ verheerend gedieh, ähnlich den Pneumokokken des Hundes, die durch die Nase eindringen. Dieses Wesen ist der Nachbar.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Piensas de veras que tanto le habría estremecido tu leve paso, que huye como brisa de primavera? Si, asustasteis su corazón: pero más viejos terrores se desencadenaron en él al choque de ese contacto.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Bir mahluk vard?r ki gözüne iliÅŸirse tamamen zarars?zd?r, fark?na varmazs?n bile, hemen unutursun. Ama herhangi bir ÅŸekilde, görünmeden kula??na kaçarsa orada geliÅŸir, sanki yumurtas?ndan ç?kar; beyne kadar ilerlediÄŸi ve bu uzuvda, t?pk? köpek pnömokoklar? gibi yak?p y?karak büyüdükleri görülür. Bu yarat?k komÅŸudur.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Though the Mongols stopped (or were stopped) before reaching Delhi, they destroyed much of Punjab.
~ Rajmohan Gandhi
They could laugh at him but they couldn't ignore him
~ Ralph Ellison
For their most innocent words were acts of violence to which we of the campus were hypersensitive though we endured them not.
~ Ralph Ellison
I didn't want to be trouble to anyone," I said. "Everybody has to be trouble to somebody.
~ Ralph Ellison
Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
What is success? To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate the beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch Or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded!
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Your actions speak so loudly, I can not hear what you are saying.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Throw a stone into the stream and the ripples that propagate themselves are the beautiful type of all influence.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson