Quotes About Impact

For the first time perhaps since Margaret Thatcher, we will have at the head of the Conservative Party someone who is genuinely an equal match for Tony Blair.

The whole bullying issue has really struck a nerve with me. It affects so many different types of people at a vital time in their lives.

My parents were divorced and I didn't grow up with my father, but I spent a lot of time around him, and his influence on me has been profound.

AIDS win be our first priority, but in two years' time we don't know where AIDS research will stand, so we are also thinking of activity on other diseases.

We've known for some time that we have to worry about the impacts of climate change on our children's and grandchildren's generations. But we now have to worry about ourselves as well.

I want to spend 100 percent of my time focused on what I think I can make the biggest difference on as the governor of California.

I wasn't even 20 at the time, but it taught me something about drugs. They can take a good man, a warm, funny, loving family man, and turn him into a loser and worse.

I could have knocked him out in the 3rd round but I wanted to do it slowly, So he would remember this night for a long time.

It is time we Georgians did not depend only on others, it is time we asked what Georgia will do for the world.

When you have a time of crisis what happens depends on what ideas are floating around, and what ideas have been developed, and thought through, and are made effective.

Around the time of 'The Lord of the Rings,' it was a shock to me just how big it is to be on that kind of media juggernaut. It was a big thing and the scrutiny was shocking.

Men who believe that they are accomplishing something by speaking speak in a different way from men who believe that speaking is a waste of time.

I quit Wall Street and decided that it was time to talk more about what was going on inside it, as it had changed. It had become far more sinister and far more dangerous.

History happens one person at a time.

The future is the result of what we do right now.

The criterion for judging whether a movie is successful or not is time.

A couple of weeks is a long time in American politics.

One of the most powerful devices is to distort time, to go from human time to atomic time, geologic time. Sometimes you can actually accomplish that, with one unexpected word choice.

For the first time in history, the human species as a whole has gone into politics. Everyone is in the act, and there is no telling what may come of it.

I feel as a brand I'm here to be around for a long time.

Time does us violence; it is the only violence.

I try not to think about legacy because it is all ­folly. If you study history, even recent history, you'll find many people who were quite significant in their time but are completely forgotten.

Politics is tricky; it cuts both ways. Every time you make a choice, it has unintended consequences.

To be successful a person must attempt but one reform. By urging two, both are injured, as the average mind can grasp and assimilate but one idea at a time.