Quotes About Impact

As a graduate student Nathan Nunn, now a Harvard economist, began to compare different economies in modern Africa, and he found that the countries that lost more people to the slave trade were also the poorest countries today. How

Anyone who thinks that they are too small to make a difference has never tried to fall asleep with a mosquito in the room.

A younger writer, David Leavitt, would later say he envied White for having "such a representative life". And it's true: the zeitgeist blew through White more easily than it did through most people.

People seldom appreciated just how vital and positive raw hatred could be.

You never remember who came to the funeral, but you never forget who didn't.

be a natural inclination to pay more attention to time than to outcomes, even when this behavior can hurt us. We might, for example,

Architectural gestures affect us in similar ways to human gestures.

The 1953 coup was a catastrophe which slammed him [Mosaddegh] to floor, and from which Iran never fully recovered

The Bangkok Comfort Zone - that strip running between Patpong, Soi Cowboy and Nana - was a huge bank of ice, thick as a glacier. Only you had to be around years and years to see and feel the deep chill, and by the time you had it was too late, the glacier had already dragged you under.

The ugliest parts of history are the most important parts to remember.

We know only too well that what we are doing is nothing more than a drop in the ocean. But if the drop were not there, the ocean would be missing something.1 —MOTHER TERESA

This Soon is like a thunderclap. This little word is like the spark that sets off the thunderstorm, and suddenly, for the thousandth part of a second, the whole world is bright beneath this word.

Feelings can even kill such good hard things as love and hate.

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Želimo li promijeniti ljude, moramo ih ljubiti. Naš utjecaj seže samo donde dokle seže naša ljubav.

Action speaks louder than words.

Klotzen, nicht Kleckern' (the

I've known for a long time about dolphins getting caught in nets and drowning there. But knowing is not the same as seeing it with your own eyes. I feel heavy, sad and responsible.

Only a very few people leave traces in history, or even bequeath family documents to their descendants. Most have no money to memorialise themselves, and lack even a gravestone to mark their existence. Women's lives, in particular, remain largely unrecorded. But even so, did they not shape the future?

Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled "This could change your life."

Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled 'This could change your life'.

My dad wrote to me. My mum put him up to it because she got this great idea that hearing from someone I'd never met and who didn't give a fuck about me might cheer me up...

And the contrast between our families hit me like a King James Version falling from the sky.

I became active in politics because I saw the possibility, if we all sat back and did nothing, of a world in which there would no longer be any stages for actors to act on.