Quotes About Impact

Looking up at her, Teensy said, Any baggage you have, Bébé, ceased to be only yours the minute that sperm hit that egg.

Every event of any magnitude changes life unpredictably.

Ideas are powerful things; we should take more care with them. I know there are some who would disagree - those who think ideas are like food they can taste and spit out if they don't like it. But ideas are stronger than that. You can get a taste of an idea inside you, and the next thing you know, it won't leave. Until you do something about it.

Every human being, he believed, must do one of three basic things during his lifetime: leave something living, create something lovely, or make something better.

FEBRUARY 27 IF YOU WANT to change the world, first try to improve and bring about change within yourself. That will help change your family. From there it just gets bigger and bigger. Everything we do has some effect, some impact.

A la inversa, para mí, de ella, lo que importaba era su presencia en mí.

Since September 11, 2001, however, we can no longer rest comfortably with such domesticated pictures of Jesus. We can no longer ignore the impact of Western imperialism on subordinated peoples and the ways in which peoples whose lives have been invaded sometimes react. The coincidental historical analogy is too disquieting, that is, that the Roman Empire had come to control the ancient Middle East, including Galilee and Judea, where Jesus operated.

Any powerful idea is absolutely fascinating and absolutely useless until we choose to use it.

Only a few people are interested in what you have to say, but that's all right. You don't tell the quality of a master by the size of his crowds, remember.

Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere.

Che effetto prova un suicida quando piomba giù da un cornicione? Sono sicuro che la sensazione sia del tutto sana. Probabilmente è per quello che urlano durante tutto il volo.

He looked as if he had been beaten to death with a wine bottle, but by doing it with the contents of the bottle.

She had a voice that made Pearl Harbor seem like a lullaby.

to remove a book from the period of its birth is like lifting a stone from a stream and watching it lose its luster in the palm of your hand.

Often a single act of kindness sets a series of kind acts in motion.

Ask yourself this question: 'Will this matter a year from now?

We cannot do great things on this earth. We can only do little things with great love.

26 of the last 27 school shooters came from fatherless homes.

As many men have observed, the wrong woman can ruin your life if you let her in it.

If replicators exist that are active, variants of them with certain phenotypic effects tend to out-replicate those with other phenotypic effects. If they are also germ-line replicators, these changes in relative frequency can have long-term, evolutionary impact.

The Jesuit boast, 'Give me the child for his first seven years, and I'll give you the man,' is no less accurate (or sinister) for being hackneyed.

James Dobson, founder of today's infamous 'Focus on the Family' movement,fn1 is equally acquainted with the principle: 'Those who control what young people are taught, and what they experience – what they see, hear, think, and believe – will determine the future course for the nation.'78

Those who control what young people are taught, and what they experience – what they see, hear, think, and believe – will determine the future course for the nation.

When we die there are two things we can leave behind us: genes and memes.