Quotes About Impact

I don't care where you are, but the fans only remember your last time at bat.

We have a freer world because of the collapse of the Soviet Union and the changes in China. Those two have been the main contributors to freedom in our time.

Things that happen before you are born still affect you and people who come before your time affect you as well.

I went to Massachusetts to make a difference. I didn't go there to begin a political career running time and time again. I made a difference. I put in place the things I wanted to do.

The Sixties, of course, was the worst time in the world to try and bring up a child. They were exposed to all these crazy things going on.

Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

When you catch an adjective, kill it. No, I don't mean utterly, but kill most of them--then the rest will be valuable. They weaken when they are close together. They give strength when they are far apart.

You meet people who forget you. You forget people you meet. But sometimes you meet those people you can't forget. Those are your 'friends

the size of a misfortune is not determinable by an outsider's measurement of it but only by the measurements applied to it by the person specially affected by it.

Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.

The pause - that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, howsoever felicitous, could accomplish it.

I do not like an injurious lie, except when it injures somebody else.

Unquestionably the discovery of the Mississippi is a datable fact which considerably mellows and modifies the shiny newness of our country, and gives her a most respectable outside-aspect of rustiness and antiquity.

An awkward, unscientific lie is often as ineffectual as the truth.

To be great, truly great, you have to be the kind of person who makes the others around you great.

If the writer doesn't sweat, the reader will.

Use what you stand for and what you oppose as a foundation to write great content that resonates with readers and creates a ripple effect.

And when it comes to beauty - and goodness too - she lays over them all. I hain't ever seen her since that time that I see her go out of that door; no, I hain't ever seen her since, but I reckon I've thought of her a many and a many a million times, and of her saying she would pray for me; and if ever I'd a thought it would do any good for me to pray for her, blamed if I wouldn't a done it or bust.

A Christian mother's first duty is to soil her child's mind, and she does not neglect it. Her lad grows up to be a missionary, and goes to the innocent savage and to the civilized Japanese, and soils their minds. Whereupon they adopt immodesty, they conceal their bodies, they stop bathing naked together.

they came to jeer, but remained to whitewash.

It had as many immoralities as the machine of today has virtues. After a year or two I found that it was degrading my character, so I thought I would give it to Howells.

But the teller of the comic story does not slur the nub; he shouts it at you—every time. And when he prints it, in England, France, Germany, and Italy, he italicizes it, puts some whooping exclamation-points after it, and sometimes explains it in a parenthesis. All of which is very depressing, and makes one want to renounce joking and lead a better life.

explosive and was expected to blow him up and

Let us live so that when we come to die, even the undertaker will be sorry.