Quotes About Impact

The price of war goes on, too. Histories tend to calculate that in terms of money and casualties during the war, not in terms of what it does to those who fight and experience the wars.

When you stand for something and do a remarkable job of

THE RESULTS OF YOUR BAD HABITS USUALLY DON'T SHOW UP UNTIL MUCH LATER IN LIFE

Often, we use words in a damaging way not because we are bad people but simply because we are not paying attention. No one ever taught us how powerful words really are.

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another. George Eliot

people may ignore your conviction but they will take notice of the results.

If a man for whatever reason has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself. JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAU Legendary underwater explorer and filmmaker

Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love. -Mother Teresa

He gives no best who gives most; but he gives most who gives best. ~Arthur Warwick

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference. ~Winston Churchill

To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die. Thomas Campbell

in some women heavy coffee drinking can cause little fatty cysts to develop in breast tissue because of the caffeine. This can sometimes throw off a mammogram reading.

The beauty of life is that every action is like a boomerang.

when we passed the Hells Angels clubhouse they were giving cans of beer out to little kids. "Repeat after me," ordered a drunken Hells Angel dressed as a Viking warrior. "When I grow up I'm going to be a badass.

Since I was trying so hard to make books lead my life, I didn't want to read them and then just put them back on the shelf and say, "good book," as if I was patting a good dog. I wanted books to change me, and I wanted to write books that would change others.

To the best of our knowledge, there's no evidence that GMOs (genetically modified organisms that have been designed or manipulated to produce certain characteristics) can affect your child's microbiome in any way.

Yes, we should pound our fists over persisting ills we see, but unless we also put our hands to work in providing workable solutions to those problems, what are we left with in the end but bruised fists and a bitter heart?

Somebody told me it was frightening how much topsoil we are losing each year, but when I told that story around the campfire, nobody got scared.

But you can count the dead bodies from alcohol, tobacco, and legal pharmaceuticals by the millions.

an individual action, multiplied by millions, creates global change.

You can't change it all, but your freedom empowers you to contribute to the world, and your love gives you the way to do so.

It's sometimes a blessing that great historical figures don't live to see what people do to their visions.

Look at what they do in a lifetime," she said. "These hands lit fires, cooked, wove a thousand blankets and carpets. They helped children into the world. When you are old," Hagar said, "look at your hands, Ish, and think of what they have done, good things and bad. Hands are like faces. Every scar a story

Please note that most such cause-effect story repairs can be handled in a few words. The key point here is not to exhaust the reader with great details, but simply to make sure that author-inserted causes are shown to have effects, and author-desired effects can be seen to have had causes.