As an entrepreneur, I have been known for taking risks throughout my career, but leaving the European Union is not one of the risks I would want the U.K. to take – not as an investor, not as a father, and not as a grandfather. I am deeply concerned about the impact of leaving.
Richard BransonScience fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.
Isaac AsimovKind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
Blaise PascalTeaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.
A. P. J. Abdul KalamA teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
Henry AdamsWhen people are connected, we can just do some great things. They have the opportunity to get access to jobs, education, health, communications. We have the opportunity to bring the people we care about closer to us. It really makes a big difference.
Mark ZuckerbergWe have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.
John F. KennedyThe most impactful dollars that Australia can spend are actually what goes to help the poorest.
Bill GatesThe greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.
William JamesFor the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.
PlatoBy gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
Edmund BurkeOnce the automobile appeared you could have predicted that it would destroy as many people as it did.
Ray BradburyA life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
Jackie RobinsonPeople don’t care about what someone says about you in a movie – or even what you say, right? They care about what you build. And if you can make something that makes people’s life better, then that’s something that’s really good.
Mark ZuckerbergMusic can change the world because it can change people.
BonoAssassination has never changed the history of the world.
Benjamin DisraeliTen people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
Napoleon BonaparteTo terrify children with the image of hell… to consider women an inferior creation. Is that good for the world?
Christopher HitchensScientists are not delinquents. Our work has changed the conditions in which men live, but the use made of these changes is the problem of governments, not of scientists.
J. Robert OppenheimerThere’s no doubt that inequality destabilizes societies. I think the social science evidence on that front is crystal clear.
Jordan PetersonThings don’t have to change the world to be important.
Steve JobsPhysical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.
Franklin D. Roosevelt‚Mean‘ is a song I wrote about somebody who wrote things that were so mean so many times that it would ruin my day. Then it would ruin the next day. And it would level me so many times, I just felt like I was being hit in the face every time this person would take to their computer.
Taylor SwiftI truly believe that when the history books are written, our age will be remembered for three things: the war on terror, the digital revolution, and what we did – or did not do – to put the fire out in Africa. History, like God, is watching what we do.
BonoSpeeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.
Thomas JeffersonThe right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
Mark TwainEverywhere I go, the kids call me ‚the book lady.‘ The older I get, the more appreciative I seem to be of the ‚book lady‘ title. It makes me feel more like a legitimate person, not just a singer or an entertainer. But it makes me feel like I’ve done something good with my life and with my success.
Dolly PartonCutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you’re flying high at first, but it won’t take long before you feel the impact.
Barack ObamaThe men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up. The world has never been the same.
Billy GrahamTeachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.
Joyce MeyerAnyone that’s involved in development has discovered that all the good work that’s been done in development has been undone by the AIDS emergency.
BonoWicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes.
Arthur SchopenhauerWhat I like about pop music, and why I’m still attracted to it, is that in the end it becomes our folk music.
BonoAfter Hiroshima was bombed, I saw a photograph of the side of a house with the shadows of the people who had lived there burned into the wall from the intensity of the bomb. The people were gone, but their shadows remained.
Ray BradburyWhen Paul Allen and I started Microsoft over 30 years ago, we had big dreams about software. We had dreams about the impact it could have.
Bill GatesThe devastating punch we took on September 11th still reverberates throughout American society.
Joe BidenFame hit me like a ton of bricks.
EminemWe ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.
Mother TeresaWhy should I care about posterity? What’s posterity ever done for me?
Groucho MarxWhen the external factors over which one has no control in a way start to become negative, it starts to affect our creative juices.
Stephen CoveyThe Vietnam War was a great tragedy for our country. And it is now far enough away so that one can study without using the slogans to see what’s really happened.
Henry KissingerBilly Graham is one of my great lifetime heroes. I think he epitomizes the essence of what a Christian leader should be. I have participated in some of his crusades a couple of times in Atlanta. I’ve seen the profound impact he’s had on me personally, and on other people who were not Christians and accepted Christ as Savior.
Jimmy CarterWell-spent aid money is saving lives for a few thousand dollars per life saved.
Bill GatesI remember at the age of five travelling on a trolley car with my mother past a group of women on a picket line at a textile plant, seeing them being viciously beaten by security people. So that kind of thing stayed with me.
Noam ChomskyChange is inevitable. Change is constant.
Benjamin DisraeliMake no mistake about why these babies are here – they are here to replace us.
Jerry SeinfeldThe next time someone tells you we can trim the budget by cutting aid, I hope you will ask whether it will come at the cost of more people dying.
Bill GatesMillions of people die every day. Everyone’s got to go sometime.
Christopher HitchensI don’t want to make money; I want to make a difference.
Lady GagaConsidering their impact, you might expect mosquitoes to get more attention than they do. Sharks kill fewer than a dozen people every year, and in the U.S. they get a week dedicated to them on TV every year.
Bill GatesThe best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.
Ralph Waldo EmersonPeople are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.
PlatoI did not learn the flaws of the criminal-justice system in law school or college or by reading about it. I grew up knowing the flaws and how it was disproportionately impacting the black community. It’s not academic for me.
Kamala HarrisI have always enjoyed watching my songs make people cry.
AuroraI think television has had a vast, unbelievable impact on us.
Billy GrahamI’ve been blessed with talents to play this game and been put on a stage to impact a lot of people. I don’t want to take that for granted.
Stephen CurryThe world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.
Florence NightingaleWe are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us.
Joseph AddisonMusic is always a commentary on society.
Frank ZappaThe multiplication force of technology on cognitive differences is massive.
Jordan Peterson