Quotes About Impact

as great a blight on our world as a missionary landing on Tahiti with a boxful of brassieres.

Our lives are shaped by the choices we make, of course, and more noticeably by the choices that were wrong.

Indonesia Mengajar offers a similar empowerment platform through education. It rigorously selects the country's top graduates, asking them to forgo potentially high-paying jobs in favor of teaching in remote village schools for one year.

A good company offers excellent products and services. A great company also offers excellent products and services but also strives to make the world a better place.

We agree that technology should be leveraged for the good of humanity.

Time is the echo of an axe Within a wood.

They fuck you up, your mum and dad. They may not mean to, but they do. They fill you with the faults they had And add some extra, just for you.

In everyone there sleeps A sense of life lived according to love. To some it means the difference they could make By loving others, but across most it sweeps As all they might have done had they been loved. That nothing cures. An immense slackening ache, As when, thawing, the rigid landscape weeps, Spreads slowly through them — — Philip Larkin, from "Faith Healing," The Complete Poems of Philip Larkin , ed. Archie Burnett (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2012)

They mess you up, your mom and dad. They may not mean to, but they do. They fill you with the faults they had, and add some extra, just for you.

The Incarnation is not about a God who steps in for a while to rescue a few souls from a godless world. It is a cosmic work of God in history that impacts the whole of creation for all time. Its particularity has consequences that are universal and eternal.

assumed a new role as a consequence of British membership in the European Union—changing fundamentally the traditional constitution—

You have to take the long view, Tom. It isn't only Traction Cities which poison the air and tear up the earth. All cities do that, static or mobile. It's human beings that are the problem. Everything that they do pollutes and destroys.

Ni ska bli en del av historien, eftersom historia är allt ni bryr er om.

Sometimes, on our way through the world, we meet someone who touches our heart in a way others don't.

Whether or not a monarch or a mass leader has great executive ability or power, modern politics suggests that his primary function may well be psychological; he acts as a center around which otherwise disturbed lives can be organized.

So bleak is the picture... that the bulldozer and not the atomic bomb may turn out to be the most destructive invention of the 20th century.

Whoever incites anger has a strong insurance against indifference.

This is a big reason for the "skeptic" half of my "optimistic skeptic" stance. We live in a world where the actions of one nearly powerless man can have ripple effects around the world—ripples that affect us all to varying degrees.

history hit a curve, and as Karl Marx once quipped, when that happens, the intellectuals fall off.

I have been struck by how important measurement is to improving the human condition," Bill Gates wrote. "You can achieve incredible progress if you set a clear goal and find a measure that will drive progress toward that goal. … This may seem basic, but it is amazing how often it is not done and how hard it is to get right.

The guitar has shown us again and again: Three chords can rock the world.

We may never know when the right word will transform a person's life.

One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen.

Sticks and stones can break your bones, but names can kill you.