Quotes About Impact

The word 'Spanx' was funny. It made people laugh. No one ever forgot it.

Quality is remembered long after price is forgotten,

Make your choices wisely, ma'moiselle. The mysteries you leave will last for lifetimes after you are gone.

The more distressing the memory, the more persistent it's presence.

They are suffering from 'no-mobile phobia', which has been given the name nomophobia and could affect up to 53 per cent of mobile-phone users.

The decimation of Lebanon was showing up in Chicago as a series of restaurants and little shops, just as the destruction of Vietnam had been visible here a decade earlier. If you never read the news but ate out a lot you should be able to tell who was getting beaten up around the world.

maybe you are only a drop in a bucket—or a teaspoon in a desert—but there are some fragile plants that will die if your teaspoon goes away.

And why didn't anyone count those things? "People should tell the truth about what war costs," Vola had said. Weren't those things the costs of war, too?

Every pretty girl is a heartbreaker

And that, I thought, was how you make a dramatic exit.

It saddens me how social media has changed the way we interact with one another.

Such a night cannot be shaken from a woman's memory. Such a night changes your life forever.

I'm in my 40s and I'm constantly surprised by how much my childhood still plays a part in my life.

There are certain people who come into your life, and leave a mark. . . Their place in your heart is tender; a bruise of longing, a pulse of unfinished business. Just hearing their names pushes and pulls at you in a hundred ways, and when you try to define those hundred ways, describe them even to yourself, words are useless.

And I don't just mean that they change you. A lot of people can change you—the first kid who called you a name, the first teacher who said you were smart, the first person who crowned you best friend. It's the change you remember, the firsts and what they meant, not really the people.

and i don't just mean that they change you. a lot of people can change you - the first kid who called you a name, the first teacher who said you were smart, the first person who crowned you best friend. it's the change you remember, the firsts and what they meant, not really the people......i'm talking about the ones who, for whatever reason, are as much a part of you has your own soul. their place in your heart is tender; a bruise of longing, a pulse of unfinished business.

Something more is going on with Jesus' storytelling than clarification or embellishment: he's out to rock our world.

As I look back on my seven years in full-time youth ministry, the experiences that were the most formative for youth weren't the ones that required the largest sound systems or the most persuasive Christian apologetics, but the ones that made the strongest imaginative connections.

It seems the more we try to fix the world, the more we break it.

I wanted to matter. For my life to matter. So many people die and no one knows they ever existed. They're ripples in a stream, disappearing when the wind blows.

Swearing can be fun, but doing it all the time causes a lot of problems

Changing the big picture takes time.. and the best things to do is focus on the things that we can make in our lives if we're doing all that. That becomes the collage of real change

Surely in a matter of this kind we should endeavor to do something, that we may say that we have not lived in vain, that we may leave some impress of ourselves on the sands of time.

As you may know my use of Celtic music is extremely simple and short. However there is something about it that will remain in your mind for a long, long time.