Quotes About Impact

You're not expressing a lot of emotion about these things." "Oh. Well. They're too big.

Huh, yeah,' Johnny says. 'My mom was always complimenting me, and look how I turned out.

The stories we are told as children do, undoubtedly, mark us for life. They are often stories of dark and terrible things, and we are usually told them just before the lights are turned out and we are left alone; but we love them. We love them when we first hear them, and even when we are grown, and think we have forgotten them entirely, they never lose their power over us.

Because this exact leaf had to grow in that exact way, in that exact place, so that precise wind could tear it from that precise branch and make it fly into this exact face at that exact moment. And, if just one of those tiny little things had never had happened, I'd never have met ya. Which makes this leaf the most important leaf in human history

I get enormous satisfaction from knowing I'm doing something for society.

A mere sixty-five million years ago (less than two percent of Earth's past), a ten-trillion-ton asteroid hit what is now the Yucatan Peninsula and obliterated more than seventy percent of Earth's flora and fauna–including all the famous outsized dinosaurs.

The seven largest emitters of fossil fuels—the United States, the European Union, China, Russia, Japan, India, and China

One degree Celsius won't feel like much on any given day to any given person, but totaled across the globe, it's enough extra heat energy to power hundreds more hurricanes, floods, tornadoes, and blizzards every year.

Jupiter acts as a gravitational shield for Earth, a burly big brother, allowing long (hundred-million-year) stretches of relative peace and quiet on Earth. Without Jupiter's protection, complex life would have a hard time becoming interestingly complex, always living at risk of extinction from a devastating impact.

Here in our solar system, a hundred-meter-wide asteroid sails into Earth every millennium or so at speeds upward of fifty thousand miles an hour, generating a destructive impact equal to 2,500 atomic bombs.

Astronomers think much of Earth's oceans could have been formed by comets striking our planet and depositing their water on Earth's surface.

Each of us, for all practical purposes, is unique in the universe—now and forever. Being alive is the time to celebrate being alive—every waking moment. Along the way, why not strive to make the world a better place today than yesterday, simply for the privilege of having lived in it.

Humans, though, have managed to double the carbon dioxide level in less than two centuries—a hundred times faster than it would happen in nature without humanity's help.

If you talk to the big polluters, they'll tell you that we have to choose between economic prosperity on one hand and environmental protection on the other, and that's a false choice.

The smartphone may be the single greatest invention in the history of inventions. In 2020 there are three billion of them in a world of eight billion people. Before 2007 there were zero.

Meteor Crater A 150-foot-wide metallic meteor struck the Mogollon Rim in modern-day Arizona 50,000 years ago, leaving a mile-wide hole that's 60 stories deep.

Every word, every step, every action is irreversible. If we step in front of a moving car, if we sign a contract we haven't read, if we betray the person we love, the best we can do is try to clean up the mess. But no matter how hard we scrub, the stain on reality will never come out. The word you just read can never be unread.

Childhood trauma may sneak up from behind and fuck you in the ass when you grow up, but at least it leaves a tip on the nightstand.

I had violated one of Ross Jeffries's only ethical rule of seduction: Leave her better than you found her.

Authority does not increase with volume. We

I don't know what kind of great I'm bound to be, Dove considered his prospects calmly, all I know for certain is I'm born a world-shaker.

What happened between us has impacted a lot of people around us whom we care for and who care for us, so I think we should try to be civil to each other and make life easier and less awkward for everyone.

Also, after the Crash of '29, this building chalked up six jumpers

As with real estate, what matters with bullet holes is location, location, location