Quotes About Impact

That is, various social interventions would reduce infections, hospitalizations, and deaths to a tenth of what they otherwise would have been.

quite likely that the fate of entire societies may be sealed by a series of avoidable mistakes committed by their leaders.

Cornwall had a problem more immediate than the collapse of society as we know it: the collapse of Bear Stearns.

The book, truth be told, left the reader feeling that there was little that might have been done to prevent all those people from dying.

But digging up the roots of chaos is like saying it's not the moment the car hits you that's important, or the split second when you step off the curb without looking. You can argue that as soon as you stopped checking when you crossed the street, that's when the trouble really began. The moment of impact is what you remember, however. That breathless instant of screech and thud, the second when the car hits and all other futures are canceled.

Power that affects nothing is mere vanity.

It takes thousands of bullets to kill an army but one to end a war.

When a person becomes aware of their genius and they live it and they give generously from it, they change the world, they affect the world. And when they depart everyone knows something is missing.

I was a distant father. I'd just go off and write. I did the thing that screws up kids more than anything else in America. I went and got myself a little bit famous.

Well one tiny poisonous spider can kill a very large man if it bites him in the right place.

Wars become history all too soon and are forgotten all too soon as well, before the lessons can be learned.

He believed that we live on only as long as our story is told. I believe that too.

a child might possibly change his country; a man can only wish that he might change it.

There is the hidden presence of others in us, even those we have known briefly. We contain them for the rest of our lives, at every border that we cross.

if you do not plunder the past, the absence feeds on you

we live with those retrievals from childhood that coalesce and echo throughout our lives

Small gestures were enough for him. One bullet ended the war.

Now it seemed to others he had choreographed the arc of his career in order to attempt this one trick on the world.

Unfortunately the interview she had lined up with a homeless girl cannot now be done, as the girl killed herself yesterday. She was the third suicide in a week at this hostel. Apparently when one goes, there is often a 'domino' effect.

Instead of eating exclusively from the sun, humanity now began to sip petroleum.

We are at once the problem and the only possible solution to the problem.

For great many species today, "fitness" means the ability to get along in a world in which humankind has become the most powerful evolutionary force.

You're not seriously telling us that LSD is less harmful than alcohol, are you?' Of course I am!

how and what we eat determines to a great extent the use we make of the world--and what is to become of it. To eat with a fuller consciousness of all that is at stake might sound like a burden, but in practice few things in life afford quite as much satisfaction.