Quotes About Impact

If you think of the world without people it's about the most perfect thing there ever is. It's all balanced and shit. But then come the people, and they fuck it up.

Wir stolpern dahin, tragen ein wenig Geräusch in die Stille und wirken in anderen fort.

Stories matter. They send our kids to war. They open up our pockets. They break our hearts.

He could help put a man on the Moon, but he couldn't count the body bags. Send a satellite spinning, but he couldn't figure out how many crosses to go into the ground.

Words can be like tiny doses of arsenic: they are swallowed unnoticed, appear to have no effect, and then after a little time the toxic reaction sets in after all.

Worte können sein wie winzige Arsendosen: sie werden unbemerkt verschluckt, sie scheinen keine Wirkung zu tun, und nach einiger Zeit ist die Giftwirkung doch da.

One woman couldn't change the world. She could just make small parts of it better.

For the world is in a bad state, but everything will become still worse unless each of us does his best.

The immediate influence of behavior is always more effective than that of words.

Strangely enough, a blow which does not even find its mark can, under certain circumstance, hurt more than one that finds its mark

E de-a dreptul ciudat ca, uneori, o lovitura care nici macar nu lasa vreo urma poate durea mai tare decat una care lasa urme.

Which choice will be made an actuality once and forever, an immortal "footprint in the sands of time"? At any moment, man must decide, for better or for worse, what will be the monument of his existence.

La influencia inmediata de una determinada conducta siempre es más eficaz que las palabras.

if a book has one passage, one idea with the power to change a person's life, that alone justifies reading it, rereading it, and finding room for it on one's shelves.

the opportunities to act properly, the potentialities to fulfill a meaning, are affected by the irreversibility of our lives.

En todo momento el hombre debe decidir, para bien o para mal, cuál será el monumento de su existencia.

The immediate influence of behavior is always more effective than that of words. But

human being is completely and unavoidably influenced by his surroundings.

Strangely enough, a blow which does not even find its mark can, under certain circumstances, hurt more than one that finds its mark.

It is not true that the deed is irretrievably lost in the past, but rather that it is indelibly stamped in the past!

For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one's dedication to a cause greater than oneself.

He apparently wasn't wearing a seat belt and the part of his brain you'd want to communicate with is still on the inside of the windshield.

Mind moves matter.

Queaque ipsa miserrima vidi,et quorum pars magna fui. (And those terrible things I saw, and in which I played a great part.)