Quotes About Impact

Christopher Reeve did such an amazing job that to give him some kind of accent or more bravado would have been wrong. Audiences wouldn't have responded to that either.

You'll know you're amazing when you get devoted to making other people amazing.

I'm more than happy to say that I am a part of the return of Rock n' Roll.And that what we have to say means so much to these amazing people.

Jesus on Twitter would have been a pretty amazing thing.

Out of anger comes controversy, out of controversy comes conversation, out of conversation comes action.

Anger is a bow that will shoot sometimes where another feeling will not.

In anger, you look ten years older.

If a pretty woman only knew how anger improved her beauty! Her complexion needs no other paint than indignation.

Words can be said in bitterness and anger, and often there seems to be an element of truth in the nastiness. And words don't go away, they just echo around.

When you become angry at someone, your anger will actually have a power. You can hit somebody in a non-physical way and it can injure that being.

That which an enraged woman can accomplish.

Maybe the world is waiting for you to give yourself to it. Maybe it's only then that things can work themselves out.

But a man with a machine and inadequate culture—such as I was when I made my pond—is a pestilence. He shakes more than he can hold.

One must begin in one's own life the private solutions that can only in turn become public solutions.

If you talk a good line without being changed by what you say, then you are not just hypocritical and doomed; you have become an agent of the disease.

What men know and presume about the earth is part of it, passing always back into it, carried on by it into what they do not know. Even their abuses of it, their diminishments and dooms, belong to it.

We live by the assumption that what's good for us is good for the world. And this is based on the even flimsier assumption that we could know with any certainty what's good for us.

And I told him that a man's life is always dealing with permanence—that the most dangerous kind of irresponsibility is to think of your doings as temporary.

When the industrial colonialists and the politicians agree to sacrifice a region to a single economic goal, they inevitably sacrifice the people as well.

Their failure was something you felt rather than saw.

The faith that limitless technological progress will finally solve the problems of limitless contamination seems to depend upon some sort of neo-religion.

The global economy is built on the principle that one place can be exploited, even destroyed, for the sake of another place.

The interstate cut through farms. It divided neighbor from neighbor. It made distant what had been close, and close what had been distant.

We spend our lives trying to fill the empty places in our souls that love never got to, where there wasn't enough water to reach our roots; its those deficits that often have the biggest impacts on us and that shape us the most. Whatever the void created in those early formative years, I think it's part of who I became as an adult