Quotes About Impact

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death.

We shall be inclined to pronounce the voyage that led to the way to this New World as the most epoch-making event of all that have occurred since the birth of Christ.

You never know what's hit you. A gunshot is the perfect way. (When asked how he would choose to die)

When you can't see the reason for something, look for the possible result—and ask yourself who might benefit from it.

I've heard that the pen is mightier than the sword," Gilan said. "But I never knew the inkwell could be mightier than the dagger.

It's surprising how often history is decided by something as trival as bad shellfish.

Some players are so bad they are hated. Some players are so bad they are forgotten. And some are so bad that they are loved, talked about, treasured.

If anything might hurt her, silence would; and I wanted to hurt her.

the smoke of Patrick Hamilton hath infected all those on whom it blew.

destroyed above 12,000,000 of souls upon the continent of America, in the space of forty years.

addresses the ramifications

WHEN BIG SYSTEMS FAIL, THE FAILURE IS OFTEN BIG

At the beginning of the day, when you're doing a show like this, you want to entertain and you want people to have a really fun time...but at the end of the day you want them to walk out feeling changed and taking something more away from it...and it's really kind of rare that you get to do that all in the same night.

It's always worth while before you do anything to consider whether it's going to hurt another person more than is absolutely necessary.

To put the last point another way, writers such as Graves, Sassoon, and Owen saw the Great War as the disease, but Tolkien saw it as merely the symptom.

not even the wind can bring a tear to my eye the way you do...

it's not the stories - it's the pain and the joy and the people who stay with you long after the stories are told ...

you cross the field in the snow leaving tracks in perfect whiteness ...disturbing my placid universe...marking the landscape within me ...

you have changed everything for me- you rearranged the furniture and now you've changed the view from my window!...

Whatever his bullets touched instantly joined a parallel universe.

We are not living in a private world of our own. Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us.

That's the funny thing about cars and teenage boys. They never mean to hurt you when they crash, they just do.

We bring the fucking rain Q, not the scattered showers.

If people were like rain, I was like drizzle and she was a hurricane.