Quotes About Impact

Se por acaso se espalhasse a ideia de que a poluição no mundo compromete não só as baleias mas também (desculpem o tecnicismo) os perus, acho que teríamos súbitas conversões ao ecologismo.

Is this possible? To spend a life punishing people who will never know they have been punished? So

It would be atrocious," I said, "to kill a man in order to say bu-ba-baff!

Let us forget for a moment that some of these false tales produced positive effects, while others produced horror and shame. All created something, for better or worse. Nothing in their success is inexplicable. What represents a problem is rather the way they managed to replace other tales that today we consider true.

Por todo lo cual, estaba reflexionando que, si a veces la religión es o ha sido el opio del pueblo, quizá más a menudo ha sido su cocaína

I am the leader of a party. I have only two years more as President, and I cannot take an action without thinking what will be its effect upon the party's future; otherwise I might throw away my six years' work, and have the humiliation of seeing a successor undo the entire New Deal.

Somebody was needed to point out to them that even though they had had to quit, they had not failed entirely. If they had published sound ideas and had found readers, their ideas would live in other minds and spawn and reproduce themselves after the manner of ideas.

Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance.

Untouched by imagination or intellect, great actions become mere activity; it

By 1970 the global applications of synthetic nitrogen fertilizers were more than eight times the 1950 level. By the century's end they had risen above 80 million tons a year, and recently they have been close to 120 million tons of nitrogen a year.

During the second decade of the twenty-first century, worldwide applications of nitrogenous fertilizers averaged about 110 million tons a year, and losing half this mass is releasing more than 50 million tons of the element (in reactive compounds, mostly as nitrates and ammonia) into the environment.

una gota de agua no perfora la piedra por la fuerza, sino por repetición»).

DDT now belongs to the category of inventions that were not just welcome but seen as truly transformative, only to be relegated to the class of undesirable advances.

This trifecta turned the book into the best-known nonfiction work of the 1960s. Silent Spring presented the use of DDT as one of the most consequential human interferences in the natural order of things, and the book was intended to make the widest possible public impact.

she made DDT the centerpiece of the book's lengthy indictment: throughout the book Carson refers to it nearly two hundred times.

You know, Sanger, Barnum may have said that it matters not what is said about you so long as it is said, but I am eloquent enough to knock that theory into a cocked hat should I be required to do so.

You always remember the first time. Isn't that what they say about sex? How much more true it is of murder.

Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind'.

But also, surprisingly, Charles Willeford, Ken Bruen and James Sallis.

The name hung between them like a motionless pendulum, waiting for a push to set it in motion.

As the poet Philip Larkin famously said, 'They fuck you up, your mum and dad.' Sometimes, it only takes one of them.

Brutal crimes didn't spring from nowhere; their seeds lay in the wider crimes of the community they impinged on.

If you have only one chance to telegraph a message via the way you dress, why not make it a good impression

When a woman walks out in the morning with confidence--she loves her heels, her dress, she thinks she looks great--her day will be better. She'll be nicer to the people she interacts with. They'll have a better day. And so on, and so on. You're creating joy and spreading it around. Is that insignificant?