Quotes About Impact

La tradición de todas las generaciones muertas oprime como una pesadilla el cerebro de los vivos.

Every step of real movement is more important than a dozen programmes.

philosophers have only interpreted the world; the point however, is to change it

Jeder Schritt wirklicher Bewegung ist wichtiger als ein Dutzend Programme.

Kids are like farts in that way. They never seem to bother the owner as much as they bother everyone else.

There are more idiots in the world than bright ones, but it's the odd good one that makes a big difference.

People say having kids is life changing, well that doesn't necessarily mean a good thing, does it? I could take one of my legs off. That would change me life.

The only memory I have was how the wrestler's balls that were thrust into my face left a saltiness on my lips.

He spun in clear air, weightless again but traveling too fast to breathe the air that tore past his lips. As his vision darkened he turned and saw bike number two impact the side of the battleship, crumpling its hull and spreading a mushroom of flame that lit a name painted on the metal hull: Arrogance.

But it is the actions of a moment that often have the most permanent of consequences.

All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win is for enough good women to do nothing.

When you chopped logs with the ax and they split open they smelled beautiful, like Christmas. But when you split someone's head open it smelled like abattoir and quite overpowered the scent of the wild lilacs you'd cut and brought into the house only this morning, which was already another life.

I can't help but think that it's an unfortunate custom to name children after people who come to sticky ends. Even if they are fictional characters, it doesn't bode well for the poor things. There are too many Judes and Tesses and Clarissas and Cordelias around. If we must name our children after literary figures then we should search out happy ones, although it's true they are much harder to find.

All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good women to do nothing.

What did science ever do for the world, apart from make better ways of killing people?" Sylvie said.

The war had been a tide that had receded and now here it was lapping around her ankles again.

Sometimes Teddy wondered if everyone had done well out of the war except for those who had fought in it.

Don't you wonder sometimes,' Ursula said. 'If just one small thing had been changed, in the past, I mean. If Hitler had died at birth, or if someone had kidnapped him as a baby and brought him up in--I don't know, say, a Quaker household--surely things would be different.

misquote Edmund Burke rather than Milton. All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good women to do nothing.

That man scorches with his brightness, who overpowers inferior capacities, yet he shall be revered when dead.

A man has to BE something; he has to matter.

Social welfare is the most corrosive behavioral force ever unleashed by man.

Have I done aught of value to my fellow-men? Then have I done much for myself.

I will insist that the Hebrews have done more to civilize man than any other nation.