Quotes About Impact

I couldn't believe it. Riley didn't flip the puck into the net to put us ahead. He actually held onto the puck and continued around the Chiefs' net. It stunned the crowd into silence. Riley Judd had just given up a chance at his third goal of the game.

The unconscious of one human being can react upon that of another without passing through the conscious.

With words one man can make another blessed, or drive him to despair;

With words one man can make another blessed, or drive him to despair; by words the teacher transfers his knowledge to the pupil; by words the speaker sweeps his audience with him and determines its judgments and decisions. Words call forth effects and are the universal means of influencing human beings.

Words call forth effects and are the universal means of influencing human beings.

All family life is organized around the most damaged person in it.

Before man, the forest; after him, the desert.

could I justify doing something with my life, my one wild and precious life, that I knew, undone, would not be missed?

But these events had touched her so little - like the echo of thunder from the mountains after a storm had passed over the countryside and was far away.

The world became smaller, yet louder.

Why does causation run always from past to future, or does it make sense to think that the future might influence the past?

If you've got a big mouth and you're controversial, you're going to get attention.

My proudest achievement has been the success of the shows and artists I have been involved with, because they were made in Britain.

I was reminded of an African proverb: when two elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers.

Codebreakers are linguistic alchemists, a mystical tribe attempting to conjure sensible words out of meaningless symbols. The history of codes and ciphers is the story of the centuries-old battle between codemakers and codebreakers, an intellectual arms race that has had a dramatic impact on the course of history.

In the aftermath of Krakatoa's eruption, 165 villages were devastated, 36,417 people died, and uncountable thousands were injured—and almost all of them, villages and inhabitants, were victims not of the eruption directly but of the immense sea-waves* that were propelled outward from the volcano by that last night of detonations.

He formed his sentences hesitantly and then threw them at me with such force that I felt as if I were receiving a present each time

How will the fact of being women have affected our lives? What precise opportunities have been given us, and which ones have been denied? What destiny awaits our younger sisters, and in which direction should we point them?

History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.

Elles [Rosa Luxembourg, Marie Curie] démontrent avec éclat que ce n'est pas l'infériorité des femmes qui a déterminé leur insignifiance historique: c'est leur insignifiance historique qui les a vouées à l'infériorité.

Ver cambiar el mundo es a la vez milagroso y desolador

We only exist if we act.

C'est seulement depuis que les femmes commencent à se sentir chez elles sur cette terre qu'on a vu apparaître une Rosa Luxembourg, une Mme. Curie. Elles démontrent avec éclat que ce n'est pas l'inferiorité des femmes qui a déterminé leur insignifiance historique: c'est leur insignifiance historique qui les à vouées à l'inferiorité.

Contact with the sword causes the same defilement whether it be through the hilt or the point.