Quotes About Impact

If a mistake occurs with regularity, it might well become the norm. If enough people believe and propagate the error, it could become gospel.

Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.

The true history of my administration will be written 50 years from now, and you and I will not be around to see it.

It has come to my attention, that air pollution is polluting the air!

Sometimes, words have consequences you don't intend them to mean.

When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.

One of the things that has helped me as much as any other, is not how long I am going to live, but how much I can do while living.

Ideas are not intellectuals' toys: ideas have consequences, for good and for ill, in what even intellectuals sometimes call "the real world".

If someday they say of me that in my work I have contributed something to the welfare and happiness of my fellow man, I shall be satisfied.

Institutions are lengthening shadows of strong individuals.

Good actors, including political actors, do not deal in unrealities. Rather, they create realities that matter – perceptions, aspirations, allegiances.

A slap on the chick

A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.

Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.

We are constantly producing the past. We are factories for the past. Living past-making machines, what else? We eat time and produce the past. Even death doesn't put a stop to this. A person might be gone, but his past remains.

Sometimes we don't stop to think how some historical event only appears to be more distant than it actually is. When I was born, the Second World War was a mere twenty-three years in the past, but it has always seemed like a completely different epoch to me.

Without someone to set the pendulum's swing, we wouldn't know where to find the middle. None of us in the business of making changes gets everything we want, the extremists allow us to look like moderates and to go after changes that will make a difference.

You are the hope and the promise for change. Without you, not only can't we accomplish what needs to be done, we will lose everything we have gained." As

My friend Doris Bry says now that I've ruined her spelling because I misspell with such confidence.

There are certain moments in the history of a nation when the choices made define the decades to come.

It has always amazed me that these people who are trying to learn and understand the world around us before it is bulldozed out of existence, have to work on piteously low salaries or on minuscule and precarious grants, while they do one of the most important jobs in the world. For it is only by learning how the planet works that we will see what we are doing wrong and have a chance to save it and ourselves as well.

I hope that, in a small way, I am interesting people in animal life and in its conservation. If I accomplish this I will consider that I have achieved something worth while. And if I can, later on, help even slightly towards preventing an animal from becoming extinct, I will be content.

responsibility means respecting ourselves and those around us. In the nature of systems, all our addictive behaviors affect other people.

Food's Effect on the Body: While it's not quite as simple as saying some foods are good and some aren't, it is reasonable to say that most foods do skew one way or the other