Quotes about Impact

'Rebecca' by Daphne du Maurier was the first grown-up book I read, when I was aged about 12.

Young people across the country have grown up traumatized by the gun violence epidemic.

I feel like kids naturally love guns, so I was drawn to that.

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no 'brief candle' to me. It is sort of a splendid torch which I have a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it over to future generations.

Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

The progress of the world can certainly never come at all save by the modified action of the individual beings who compose the world.

The existence of insignificant people has very important consequences in the world. It can be shown to affect the price of bread and the rate of wages, to call forth many evil tempers from the selfish and many heroisms from the sympathetic, and, in other ways, to play no small part in the tragedy of life.

Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it; it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker," But the truth is, gossip hurts.

our tongues are little triggers which have usually been pulled before general intentions can be brought to bear.

It's all I've got to think of now—to do my work well and make the world a bit better place for them as can enjoy it.