Quotes About Impact

The girl made an impression on me, and I forgot her; the other made no impression, and her I can remember.

The writer] can easily foresee his fate ... in an age when an author who wants to have readers must take care to write in such a way that the book can easily be perused during an afternoon nap ....

It is not what happens to me that makes me great, but what I do.

One must see it close up, the callousness with which otherwise kind people act in the capacity of the public because their participation or non-participation seems to them a trifle - a trifle that with the contributions of the many becomes the monster.

The great can never do harm when grasped in their greatness.

Rain drops are not the ones who bring the clouds.

I don't want them to be told to remember me.

I think history is only ever invisible when it abets your sense of self, your desires, your ambitions, when it carries your life along in a kind of frictionless way.

I can live my legacy or just have led a busy life.

Everyone should try to scratch their name on the bomb of life.

[Wham!] totally changed my life. It would be very difficult to know how it changed me as a person; you'd have to ask other people that.

If we leave our smells behind us when we leave a room, surely something of our souls must remain when we leave this life?" - Qyburn

People try to live their lives without consequences and end up living lives of no consequence.

A decrease in the quantity of legislation generally means an increase in the quality of life.

The only thing that lives beyond the grave is the wake you have created by the way you have lived your life; the goals you have set; the distance away from the normal you dared to tread.

If I had won...all those other championships, my life might be totally different, but I didn't win. It's not going to affect my life.

I know that as a writer I'm trying to, in some small way, return the gift that I got, and maybe provide a reader the kind of experience that has changed my life.

Every person has the ability to improve the life of someone else.

What I liked about American movies when I was a kid was that they're sort of larger than life and I think I'm still suffering from that reaction.

The scenery when it is truly seen reacts on the life of the seer.

The effect of a good government is to make life more valuable; of a bad one, to make it less valuable.

I really feel strongly that we can make change for every person. And it will be radical in the person's life.

Where life is fully and consciously lived in our own neighborhood, we are cushioned a little from the impact of great far-off events which should be of only marginal concern to us.

There is life or death in words.