Quotes About Impact

Like a stone tossed into a flock of birds, talk startled swiftly into flight whenever the new postmaster was mentioned.

The things that remain matter. Because of them, I can render a plausible life.

Leadership matters. Different leadership pushed the United Kingdom and the United States in a different direction. It might have nurtured egalitarian tendencies in Germany, too.

Curtailed, too, were hopes for a similarly democratic economy, based to any significant degree in joint local action in the interests of participating citizens. And yet, even in "failure," these movements profoundly altered the American system—at least for a time.

On the contrary, the great force of history comes from the fact that we carry it within us, are unconsciously controlled by it in many ways, and history is literally present in all that we do.'12 It was in an essay

Someone told me much later that you always know the people who are going to make a difference in your life, from the very first time you set eyes on them, even if you do not like them at all. And I had noticed him, as he had me. God help us.

Someone told me much later that you always know the people who are going to make a difference in your life, from the very first time you set eyes on them, even if you do not like them at all.

All of sudden it hit Mariah like a bolt of thunder that it was Bannie's death why they got beat. It was the land...the land! She looked to Jacob - to his papa. Both of them looking like lightning just struck.

But the media were about to go cold turkey on the whole latter half of the twentieth century, and the shock was going to make them irritable.

it's not the thought that counts. In this world, it's the action that counts.

I'm very, very concerned about the Bush presidency. I'm worried about the kinds of cuts in domestic programs that mean something to a lot of people, including members of my family, who depend on certain things from the government.

There is no influence so powerful as that of the mother, but next in rank in efficacy is that of the schoolmaster.

Does the first time matter that much?

For the rest of his life he'd remember how she looked in that moment as she put her mark on his soul with four little words. "I've made my choice.

The dead person is not truly dead until the last person who rememebers them dies.

I heard the huff of his breath, as if I had struck him, as if perhaps my words had reached through his self-righteousness.

Audrey had never understood why mean words sounded louder than kind ones.

Dead people are bad for business." She gave a half smile. "Except for in your business.

How cool is that? To be the one bright spot in someone's day?

You don't always have to change the whole world," Paige murmured, "just a small part of it, and sometimes those changes are small but it doesn't make them less important. Without the cog, the wheel wouldn't move.

A feeling in here." She pressed her fist to her chest. "It sweeps you away and robs you of breath, and you know that no matter what happens in the future, this is a moment you're going to remember forever. It's always going to be there, living inside you, and no one can take it away.

The problem with being a family was that every member was affected by the actions of an individual.

Our responses to events are far more significant than the events themselves

Would 'sorry' have made any difference? Does it ever? It's just a word. One word against a thousand actions.