Quotes About Impact

when anything beautiful's dead, it's a loss to the world.

If you disperse energy in speech, it doesn't leave you too much over for action.

Una ha de tener el valor necesario para enfrentarse a la realidad. Sin ese valor, la vida carece de significado. La gente que más daño nos hace es aquella que nos escuda contra la realidad.

I shall, I think, remember that 11th of September all my life.

Sensationalism dies quickly - fear is long-lived.

And when anything beautiful's dead, it's a loss to the world.

Ugly as sin, but she makes herself felt. You agree?

[T]hen I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down... and kissed him. And the world cracked open.

Det tog mig många år att inse vilken makt pappas tystnad hade utövat. Ja, mäns envisa tigande.

How much is our life governed by the lives and past actions of others?

This is the wonder of names. Like the press of a footprint in the snow: proof that someone has been there.

The American mass media have achieved what American political might could not: World domination.

The walls were unadorned except for a tattered calendar that stopped at December 1941, when the world changed forever.

Since I had been doing nothing but follow my brother's lead, his suicide sent me spinning like a top. I believe this was a very dangerous turning point in my life.

The ordinary Japanese actor might need ten feet of film to get across an impression; Mifune needed only three feet.

Perhaps because I was just a child, I didn't perceive the slightest specter of our dark militarism.

He was a wonderful teacher. A really good teacher doesn't seem like a teacher at all; that's exactly how this man was.

You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun.

I think it's harder for people than it should be. But as more and more of us become carbon neutral and change the patterns in our lives to be part of the solution instead of part of the problem, we are now beginning to see the changes in policy that are needed.

Global warming, along with the cutting and burning of forests and other critical habitats, is causing the loss of living species at a level comparable to the extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. That event was believed to have been caused by a giant asteroid. This time it is not an asteroid colliding with the Earth and wreaking havoc: it is us.

We have to abandon the conceit that isolated personal actions are going to solve this crisis. Our policies have to shift.

When dealing in the technology, it becomes a question of whether you overuse something. I think that's worse than having something technologically available to you and not using it.

The easy way to get into a person's mind is to be first.

This was truly the worst natural disaster Americans had ever seen. While death tolls would always be imperfect, it's fair to say that around 10,000 people perished in one night. And