#monument

A complete stranger has the capacity to alter the life of another irrevocably. This domino effect has the capacity to change the course of an entire world. That is what life is; a chain reaction of individuals colliding with others and influencing their lives without realizing it. A decision that seems miniscule to you, may be monumental to the fate of the world. ↗

— J.D. Stroube

#chain #choice #course #decision #domino

As I passed along the side walls of Westminster Abbey, I hardly saw any thing but marble monuments of great admirals, but which were all too much loaded with finery and ornaments, to make on me at least, the intended impression. ↗

— Karl Philipp Moritz

#along #any #great #hardly #i

I'm thrilled of the acceptance I get abroad. The people are so hearty, warm and grateful and I feel privileged having seen so many countries and some of the greatest monuments. ↗

— Daniel Radcliffe

#acceptance #countries #feel #get #grateful

A great novel is concerned primarily with the interior lives of its characters as they respond to the inconvenient narratives that fate imposes on them. Movie adaptations of these monumental fictions often fail because they become mere exercises in interior decoration. ↗

— Richard Schickel

#become #characters #concerned #decoration #exercises

The name Peace River itself is the monument of a successful effort on the part of the Company to bring about a better understanding between the Crees and the Beavers. ↗

— Ernest Thompson Seton

#beavers #better #between #bring #company

They can see the brave silhouette from almost anywhere in the District of Columbia and use it as a compass to locate other monuments and eventually to find their way out of the great, gray federal wilderness. ↗

— Hugh Sidey

#anywhere #brave #columbia #compass #district

Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future. ↗

— Robert Smithson

#causing #forget #future #instead #like

Language thus becomes monumental because of the mutations of advertising. ↗

— Robert Smithson

#because #becomes #language #monumental #mutations

Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#monuments #mountains

The Hercules' was a monumental undertaking. It is the largest aircraft ever built... I put the sweat of my life into this thing. ↗