Quotes About Impact

You know reviewers, they are the wind in their own sails.

It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.

When your parent clocks out before you clock in, you can spend way too much of your life staring into that black hole.

The last generation's worst fears became the next one's B-grade entertainment.

What a knot of history one mistake can become.

It's in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present." Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

It's the worst of bad manners to ridicule the small gesture...Small, stepwise changes in personal habits aren't trivial. Ultimately they will, or won't, add up to having been the thing that mattered.

The sting of a fly, the Congolese say, can launch the end of the world. How simply things begin.

But this boy in a French or British factory, standing in his leather overall welding the casing on a metal bomb; what can he see? That thing will fly through the air, fall hundreds of miles away, and kill boys in leather overalls in a German factory. the reports will roar victory or defeat, and boys will never know how alike their lives have been.

Here comes Moses tromping down off Mount Syanide with ten fresh ways to wreck your life.

Most people lived so far from it, they thought you could just choose, carnivore or vegetarian, without knowing that the chemicals on grain and cotton killed far more butterflies and bees and bluebirds and whippoorwills than the mortal cost of a steak or a leather jacket.

A million dead butterflies, she said. Sorry as hell they ever landed here.

It's in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present.

Emmy said Kent and June didn't use weapons, just mouths, both parties packing serious heat in that department. Kent was a yeller, but mouthwise, June was an AR-15. Instant reload, engineered to kill.

A hundred different paths may lighten the world's load of suffering. Giving up meat is one path; giving up bananas is another. The more we know about our food system, the more we are called into complex choices.

Well, but it's criminal negligence, really. These kids have to grow up and run things. Larger things than a ball field, I mean. What kind of world will they really be able to make?

I knew exactly what I should have said: Be careful what you give children, for sooner or later you are sure to get it back.

For God's sake, man," Ovid nearly shouted, "the damn globe is catching fire, and the islands are drowning. The evidence is staring them in the face.

We came, we saw, we took away and we left behind, we must be allowed our anguish and our regrets.

Every kind of weather is intensified by warming.

People count too long on the oblivion of children.

mouthwise, June was an AR-15. Instant reload, engineered to kill.

But a thing grows teeth once it's put into words. Now I felt that worm digging

Even a joke has some weight and takes up space, and when introduced into a vacuum, acquires its own gravity.