Quotes About Impact

His failure to enter the Academy and his mother's death, both occurring within less than four months in late 1907, amounted to a crushing double blow for the young Hitler.

In each case the individuals made history-although,to adapt the thought of Karl Marx,not under circumstances of their choosing

What Hitler did was advertise unoriginal ideas in an original way. He gave voice to phobias, prejudice, and resentment as no one else could. Others could say the same thing but make no impact at all. It was less what he said, than how he said it that counted. As it was to be throughout his 'career', presentation was what mattered.

Sensitive dependence on initial conditions; one word, one act, can change the world. Well they named it chaos theory.

She left the pneumatique at the next stop and went to see what she had done to the world.

small, but growing, spreading like ripples into circles of pleasure and confusion and anger that impinged upon and interfered with each other to form new patterns of emotion as people turned to their neighbors in the cablecar line and pedicab rank to question, to talk, to argue, to console, and to draw together into eddies of opinion, whirlpools of controversy.

Amazing how a simple satire on satire could have such an effect.

My name is Kilimanjaro West," he said, and something in the way he spoke that name made the crowded 'lectrovan fall electrically quiet. "Pleased to meet you all.

If she had had a new famulus, or even this poor old smashed famulus, or any famulus at all, she might have never done what she had just done. She could not decide whether that was a good or bad thing.

The sense of power, of human ability, was so strong. Many of the men cried. Men are so easily moved.

This is how the entire course of a life can be changed: by doing nothing.

Man is a blind, witless, low brow, anthropocentric clod who inflicts lesions upon the earth.

WE COMMIT ALL SORTS OF INJUSTICES AT EVERY STEP WITHOUT THE SLIGHTEST EVIL INTENTION. EVERY MINUTE WE ARE THE CAUSE OF SOMEONE'S UNHAPPINESS

You wouldn't think you could kill an ocean, would you? But we'll do it one day. That's how negligent we are.

The only occasion on film when a profanity passed from her lips, in fact, came in Two for the Road, when she twice accused Albert Finney of being a bastard. Its impact was all the greater because it was completely at odds with the 'decent' Audrey Hepburn image.

The harsh truth that this is the only life we have should make us try and improve it for as many people as possible.

But here's the real trip about the backlash: it wasn't that "Cop Killer" was a bad

song; what pissed them off is that white people liked it. When we played it there were thousands of white kids at our shows, wilding out in pits, shouting the words with fists in the air.

I wanted to learn everything I could about the faces of addiction. I wanted to understand all the ripple effects of crime and violence.

I was switching up my lyrical style, but I wasn't expecting the impact that one B side was going to have, that it would pretty much transform the hip-hop sound of the West Coast and give birth to an entire genre called gangsta rap.

Exercise power by means of kindness, and you may be causing more damage than you could by cruelty. Neither approach is correct.

Dicho del Profeta Soy como un hombre que ha encendido una hoguera y todas las cosas vivientes han corrido a quemarse en ella.

Ejercita el poder por medio de la amabilidad, y podrás estar causando más daño que por la crueldad. Ninguno de estos abordajes es correcto.

Ejercita el poder por medio de la amabilidad, y podrás estar causando más daño que por medio de la crueldad. Ninguno de los abordajes es correcto.