Quotes About Impact

climate change could become a catalyzing force for positive change—how

Superstorm Sandy, meanwhile, has been a windfall for New Jersey real estate developers who have received millions for new construction in lightly damaged areas, while it continues to be a nightmare for those living in hard-hit public housing, much as the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina played out in New Orleans.10

The lady in the Rolls-Royce car is more damaging to morale than a fleet of Göring's bombing-planes.

we will not win the battle for a stable climate by trying to beat the bean counters at their own game—arguing, for instance, that it is more cost-effective to invest in emission reduction now than disaster response later. We will win by asserting that such calculations are morally monstrous, since they imply that there is an acceptable price for allowing entire countries to disappear, for leaving untold millions to die on parched land

I'm not stupid, nor a liar," I said, "and if I can't do any good, I can at least do something

What perfectly sensible advice. It sat in my stomach, an indigestible lump.

she's been living alone with a man for ten years, so of course she's ruined, even though the girls all say he never puts a hand on them.

from Famous I want to be famous the in the way a pulley is famous,/or a buttonhole,not because it did anything spectacular,/but because it never forgot what it could do.

what twists or rage greater than we could ever guess had savaged skylines, thousands of lives?

Porn, it turns out, eventually takes the sexiness - that is, the wildness - out of sex.

The virus and the vaccine were just the stimuli. What had really been accomplished was the breaking of America.

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

your poverty is serving no one. If you're a charitable person, you'd be a whole lot more charitable if you had lots of money.

Your financial requirements or wants have nothing whatever to do with your WORTH. Your value is established entirely by your ability to render useful service or your capacity to induce others to render such service.

SERVICE, Sacrifice and Self-Control are three words which must be well understood by the person who succeeds in doing something that is of help to the world.

The world does not pay men for that which they "know." It pays them for what they DO, or induce others to do.

Powerful and mighty is the human mind! It builds or it destroys.

As Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, "One single idea may have greater weight than the labor of all the men, animals and engines for a century.

Palavras frias e sem emoção não influenciam a mente subconsciente.

You make an impression on everyone you meet, just as everyone you meet makes an impression on you. You need know when an acquaintance may become a associate. There is great power in your network.

Love may come and go, times without number, but there are no two love experiences which affect one in just the same way.

No man can afford to express, through words or acts, that which is not in harmony with his own belief, and if he does so he must pay by the loss of his ability to influence others.

Have I, have you, been too silent? Is there an easy crime of silence?

Look out how you use proud words. When you let proud words go, it is not easy to call them back. They wear long boots, hard boots; they walk off proud; they can't hear you calling - Look out how you use proud words.