Quotes About Impact

Deployed upon that plain they moved in a constant elision, ordained agents of the actual dividing out the world which they encountered and leaving what had been and what would never be alike extinguished on the ground behind them.

the lesson of a life can never be its own. Only the witness has power to take its measure. It is lived for the other only.

It makes no difference what men think of war ... War endures.

He'd half meant to speak but those eyes had altered the world forever in the space of a heartbeat.

He nodded toward the specimens he'd collected. These anonymous creatures, he said, may seem little or nothing in the world. Yet the smallest crumb can devour us. Any smallest thing beneath yon rock out of men's knowing.

There's always been narcotics. But people don't just up and decide to dope theirselves. By the millions.

It was for us and it will be for others

Yeah. He aint here to say though, is he? I dont know. Someways I think he'll always have a say.

DOOMED ENTERPRISES divide lives forever into the then and the now.

E' una questione personale. E' proprio questo l'effetto dell'istruzione. Rende il mondo intero qualcosa di personale.

Words are things.

Everything's important. A man lives his life, he has to make that important. Whether he's a small town county sheriff or the president. Or a busted out bum.

But anyone who doesnt understand that the Manhattan Project is one of the most significant events in human history hasnt been paying attention. It's up there with fire and language. It's at least number three and it may be number one. We just dont know yet. But we will.

One could even say that what endows any thing with significance is solely the history in which it has participated. Yet wherein does that history lie?

The roar of the pistol in his face chopped it off and the size of the silence that followed was enormous.

There could be few men whose love for a woman had been written on his face with a knife.

The written word is a powerful thing, you have to be careful with it. - Silvertongue

Her beauty took one's breath away, like a sudden pain.

The written word is a powerful thing, you have to be careful with it.

But they woke him with words, their cruel, bright weapons. T. H. White, The Book of Merlin

Words weighed light, light as a feather, even the most important of them.

What a terrible weapon love could be. Was any knife sharper?

The world is a dangerous place, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it. Albert Einstein

War is the great auditor of institutions