Quotes About Impact

Somewhere, in a distant land he barely knew the name of, people had stopped buying washing machines, and so his city had died.

Where there's life, there's hope. Living people can change things, dead people cannot.

They say that it's down to individual choice and responsibility, but reality is that you can't personally shop your way out of climate change. If your town reuses glass bottles, that does one thing. If it recycles them, it does something else. If it landfills them, that's something else, too. Nothing you do, personally, will affect that, unless it's you, personally, getting together with a lot of other people and making a difference.

The time to act is when you still have privilege and power, not when you've had it stripped from you.

The environmental prescription has been to act as much as possible like you were already dead. Don't reproduce. Don't consume. Don't trample the earth or you'll compress the dirt and kill the plants. Every exhalation poisons the atmosphere with CO2. Is it any wonder we haven't gotten there?

living people can sometimes change their situations, while dead ones can't change a fucking thing.

by the time the datapocalypse is obvious even to people whose paychecks depended on denying it, it would be too

Como é bom deixar uma marca na superfície branca. Fazer um mapa com meus passos mesmo que seja temporário.

Everything we do, you see, has its consequences and repercussions, every kind act, and every bad, every friend we make, and every enemy. Everything is connected.

Notice how the crucible of the story changes those who listen to it, those who are within it, and the person who is telling it, all at the same time.

It is always a mistake to underestimate the little people of the world, for it is often they who tip the balance.

Everything we do, you see, has its consequences and repercussions, every kind act and every bad one, every friend we make... and every enemy. Everything is connected.

My own preferences had little bearing on the outcome of events.

And the reason I'm telling you all this is that I want you to know no one in my life has ever made me feel worse about myself than you.

I have always been particularly touched by the proverb about the purpose of life being to plant trees under whose shade you do not expect to sit.

Where had I gotten the idea that being a nuissance was that big a deal?

The only element still surprising was how rapidly Sherman was moving: for whichever direction I looked, he'd been here already, burning and emptying out. The smoldering wood made the air smell cruelly like Christmas.

The wallpaper was aggressively patterned, as was the carpet: together they gave the same effect as when you rub your eyes too hard with the heels of your hands. Ch. 7

Throughout the meal, Windy's voice blew over them, smooth and steady. It didn't matter what he was saying.

I don't know what she told you, but I never was sorry I'd married her or loved her because of you. You always made a difference, made a real difference, from the very beginning. I always knew that, inside me, but I didn't bother to learn how to show you. I'm sorry, Jeff, I should have taken the trouble.

Griff couldn't, as Oriel could, gather men to him at a glance, seal them to him with a word. He had himself been the first gathered, the first sealed.

At Beriel's silence she turned around -- and fury crashed against her like a wave thrown by a storm against the rocky coast.

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice.

A great writer creates a world of his own and his readers are proud to live in it. A lesser writer may entice them in for a moment, but soon he will watch them filing out.