Quotes About Impact

The moment passed in a heartbeat. But it did not matter. What mattered was that it existed. To be present in history, even as nothing more than a chuckle, was a universe away from being absent from it, from being written out of it altogether. A chuckle, after all, could become a foothold in the sheer wall of the future.

Once you own history, it begins to own you.

There are women who make things better... simply by showing up. There are women who make things happen. There are women who make their way. There are women who make a difference. And women who make us smile. There are women of wit and wisdom who- through strength and courage- make it through. There are women who change the world everyday... Women like you.

Endings matter, not just for the person but, perhaps even more, for the ones left behind.

We said the medicines we gave him may have contributed to it.

season can affect mood and behavior

and she asks if either might have anything to do with this.

I couldn't help but think, however, that my social status played a role in all this.

But the fact of eight deaths must mean something, right?

Having already done more harm than the bullet had

terrible. But as it turned out, we'd done more good than we could have hoped for.

The answer, he believed, is that we all seek a cause beyond ourselves.

Mostly, the experiments did more harm than good.

The side effects are not life-threatening, but they are not trivial. The

The successful M & M presentation inevitably involves a certain elision of detail and a lot of passive verbs.

Medicine and public health have transformed the trajectory of our lives. For all but our most recent history, death was a common, ever-present possibility. It didn't matter whether you were five or fifty. Every day was a roll of the dice.

The message, however, was not lost on anyone.

The most striking aspect of the program, it seemed to me, was that

it had wide influence.

so the smaller the patient (and his or her blood supply) the greater the effect. Members

knew I was letting myself be swayed by a single, recent, anecdotal case.

Once a possibility has been put in your mind—especially one as horrible as necrotizing fasciitis—the possibility does not easily go away.

But is this really going to be effective and worthwhile over a forty-year span?

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