Quotes About Impact

She thought for the first time, with happiness: perhaps I have a life in people's minds when I am not there to be seen or talked to.

Everyday life seems so permanent and unshakable?but, as I was reminded by these writers, it can be destroyed by a single phone call.

a book is like a sandy path which keeps the indent of footprints.

You can give anyone pain from a distance

How strange and unfamiliar to think that one had been loved, that one's presence had once had the power to make a difference between happiness and dullness in another's day.

It always seemed strange to Wormold that he continued to exist for others when he was not there.

The maximum of terror for the minimum time directed against the fewest objects.

Was the Younger Dryas cold event that began so suddenly and so mysteriously 12,800 years ago brought on by the effects of a large comet hitting the earth?

There are certain songs, and books, and films that are like points of high ground in the memory. Like they are even larger than your own experiences. They never go away.

I suppose that's all a man can hope for during his lifetime,' nodded Horus, 'to set an example, and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history

Key amongst these is the Newton's Cradle, which we

How little you know how you've kept my balance.

I loved IRON MAN: Robert Downey Jr. has been and probably will be my favourite actor for a long time…but IRON MAN, THE INCREDIBLE HULK, SUPERMAN RETURNS and all the others feel a little like Saturday morning cartoons next to the carbon black glory that is 'The Dark Knight.' Trust me, *this* is the future of this sort of thing.

Our stupidity has turned the world into a hand grenade. Our greed has pulled the pin.

Brilliant in the creation, slovenly in the consideration of consequences. Wasn't that true of every creator? Didn't anyone who changed things ultimately lead some people—perhaps many people—to death, grief, torment? The poor human Prometheuses who brought fire to their fellows. Nobel.

People don't respond to what you tell them; they respond to what you show them.

What if they exist because of us?

For once the stone hits the surface of the pond, the ripples never really stop.

Our actions have consequences that last long after us, entwining the present with the future in ways we cannot begin to understand.

William Faulkner ever said wasn't written in one of his novels, but spoken during an interview in Paris: The past is never dead; it's not even past.

Billy Graham once said, "We are the Bibles the world is reading. We are the creeds the world is needing. We are the sermons the world is heeding.

our lives are the only Bible some people will ever read. Christians are to be living epistles, written by God and read by men (2 Cor. 3:2).

The significance of the chronometer cannot be overstated. Its effect on the world rivals that of any other invention, including the printing press and the microchip.

If you have to be hit over the head to learn something about yourself, you'll be someone who thinks that people only learn if you hit them over the head.