Quotes About Impact

He forced air through his lungs and with it, brought in the scent of Amaryllis. The moment he took her in, his world changed. Lightened. She could do that, without doing more than existing.

We didn't start the sexual revolution but I think we gave it a good kick in the pants!

For something to exist from the point of view of the world, extrinsically, it must be able to influence things and things must be able to influence it. That is what it means to have causal power. When something can't make a difference to anything in the world or be influenced by anything in the world, it is causally impotent. Whether or not it exists makes no difference to anything.

Give me smart, young, and angry and I'll move the world.

One advantage to being overweight is that it enhances stomping.

by the 1790's an average American over fifteen years old drank just under six gallons of absolute alcohol each year. . . . The comparable modern average is less than 2.9 gallons per capita. We

No, I was just thinking about Chernobyl. That's like a scream from the universe warning us, but we're not paying any attention.

That, I know now, is why social media remains so popular; it is the home of the powerless.

Crazy leaders teach us crazy habits.

Thanks to Hitler, we are no longer living in a world that cares about the death of someone because they were loved in the past. It cares only if that death can do damage to the future.

Thanks to Hitler, we are no longer living in a world that cares about the death of someone because they were loved in the past. It cares only if that death can do damage to the future. It's a grim truth, Sidney. Like Orpheus leaving Hades, we are rushing headlong into the light of a terrible new world.

I used to be more refined but at my age, you start to realize all that politeness doesn't get you very far. Better to be honest and direct, even if it does piss off a few people along the way.

Until you have done something for humanity," wrote the great American educator Horace Mann, "you should be ashamed to die.

Nonintervention does not mean that nothing happens. It means that something else happens.

I can't hope to convey the full effect of the embraces and avowals, but I can perhaps offer a crumb of counsel. If there is anybody known to you who might benefit from a letter or a visit, do not on any account postpone the writing or the making of it. The difference made will almost certainly be more than you have calculated

Among the privileges of being a superpower, the right and the ability to make a local quarrel into a global one ranks very high.

Some statements are too blunt for everyday, consensual discourse. In national "debate," it is the smoother pebbles that are customarily gathered from the stream, and used as projectiles. They leave less of a scar, even when they hit. Occasionally, however, a single hard-edged remark will inflict a deep and jagged wound, a gash so ugly that it must be cauterized at once. In

religion continues to pose an urgent threat to public health.

The empire on which the sun never set was also the empire on which the gore never dried.

Thomas Paine was not wrong in saying that he could not believe in any religion that shocked the mind of a child.)

British Imperialism has been engaged, during the last two hundred years, in conferring upon its victims the dubious benefits of the Bible, the Bottle and the Bomb. And of these three, I might perhaps venture to add, the Bomb has been infinitely the least noxious.

There should be no theology that does not relate to the mission of the church – either by being generated out of the church's mission or by inspiring and shaping it. And there should be no mission of the church carried on without deep theological roots in the soil of the Bible. No theology without missional impact; no mission without theological foundations.

The only thing our choices can affect or change is the future. So it seems to me that the future is where our attention can be most usefully directed.

She set the course of his life with just a smile.