Quotes About Impact

got to the concrete embankment about thirty seconds after the Ferrari hit it flat out at a hundred and sixty kilometers an hour. I guess the gas tank had exploded on impact, and the flames were jumping fifteen meters into the air.

This disaster was caused by environmentalists charged with protecting the wilderness, who made one dreadful mistake after another—and, along the way, proved how little they understood the environment they intended to protect.

Would you make products to help mankind, to fight illness and disease? Dear me, no. That's a terrible idea. A very poor use of technology. - John Hammond

If we are gone tomorrow the Earth will not miss us.

Esa idea de mantener interconectado al mundo entero equivaldrá a la muerte en masa. Todo biólogo sabe que los pequeños grupos aislados evolucionan más rápidamente.

Men may congratulate themselves for writing truly and passionately about the movements of nations; they may consider war and the search for God to be great literature's only subjects; but if men's standing in the world could be toppled by an ill-advised choice of hat, English literature would be dramatically changed.

I know a conquistador when I see one. I know all about making a splash. It isn't hard. If you shout loud enough, for long enough, a crowd will gather to see what all the noise is about. It's the nature of crowds. They don't stay long, unless you give them reason.

He demands that his mother pick him up so he can see the soldiers better; so he will be more visible to them. All this enters the bridge, resounds through its wood and stone, and enters Virginia's body. Her face, pressed sideways to the piling, absorbs it all: the truck and the soldiers, the mother and the child.

Sometimes, life is like that. One moment. One person. One conversation. And your life is forever enriched.

If you were to write a script for the tape to be played for the mourners at your funeral, how would you like it to read? That's your Primary Aim. And once you've created the script, all you need to do is make it come true. All

Yes, the simple truth about the greatest businesspeople I have known is that they have a genuine fascination for the truly astonishing impact little things done exactly right can have on the world.

Es gibt viele Arten von Einsamkeit, aber Momo erlebte eine, die wohl nur wenige Menschen kennengelernt haben, und die wenigsten mit solcher Gewalt.

Ma è un fatto provato, per quanto molto strano, che anche la cosa più orribile perde parte del suo orrore quando si ripete continuamente.

Una cosa rara es que el horror pierde su espanto cuando se repite mucho.

You've saved my life all the same- even if I had something to do with it.

Aber es ist eine seltsame Tatsache, dass das Entsetzliche seine Schrecken verliert, wenn es sich immer wiederholt.

Letters unchangeable and dead freeze what the living did and said.

My choice of Muhammad to lead the list of the world's most influential persons may surprise some readers and may be questioned by others, but he was the only man in history who was supremely successful on both the religious and secular level.

As with any turning point or instance when a new road is chosen and an old one forsaken, there are consequences.

It is sometimes easier to make the world a better place than to prove you have made the world a better place.

Ignorance allows people to disregard the consequences of their actions. And sometimes it leads to consequences even they did not intend.

He further believed that the only way to get people to believe that you were good for their careers was actually to be good for their careers.

Walking through the ruins, she saw all over again what she had seen so many times: how much better Americans were at responding to a disaster than preventing it.

These folks don't know what they're talking about. If losses go to ten percent there will be, like, a million homeless people." (Losses in the pools Hubler's group had bet on would eventually reach 40 percent.)