Quotes About Impact

When a faith stubbornly maintained comes into contact with learning, the product of that encounter is always something magnificent, whether it be for good or ill.

Surely there is a continuum from a pure, undefiled wilderness to a trammeled concrete industrial area. But there is no place, we now know, as the relentlessly global impacts of climate change become increasingly understood, that humans have left untouched; and there is no place that the wild does not, in some small way, proclaim itself.

One dog got makeup applied to its face, lipstick and blue eye shadow. It was a white-faced dog, so the makeup showed up well. We liked to have an impact. When we were done, the lipstick went back into some mother's Fendi handbag. We watched her apply it, unaware. That was satisfying.

Às vezes o silêncio é muito mais convincente do que a palavra.

Little leading makes much following.

A man is no less a person because he can speak in New York and be heard in Chicago, or press a button in Washington and set machinery in motion in Omaha. Extension of power does not lessen the personality of him who exercises it.

I don't just want to write a story. I want to pull the reader into my ink so they feel the cold of a snowy forest or the pain of a tortured soul. I want them to laugh and cry, to smile and sigh, and when they reach the end of the book and find themselves wishing it hadn't ended...then I've done my job.

The radio was on and that was the first time I heard that song, the one I hate. Whenever I hear it all I can think of is that very day riding in the front seat with Lucy leaning against me and the smell of Juicy Fruit making me want to throw up. How can a song do that? Be like a net that catches a whole entire day, even a day whose guts you hate? You hear it and all of a sudden everything comes hanging back in front of you, all tangled up in that music.

The impact of rejection for a novice can be incalculable. It's common for the rejected never to try again, particularly women on their own or housewives or provincials who venture without support.

Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for the good.

Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for good.

The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands.

That bitch of a war killed the lady I really loved -- the Great Society.

I'll have those niggers voting Democrat for the next 200 years.

I want to do something important." "It's the little things that make all the difference in the world. The kind words we speak and the simple things we do for people.

It has become a cliché to say that one person can make a difference, but the life of Mahatma Gandhi confronts us with the enduring truth of that statement.

There will be a layer in the fossil record where you'll know people were here because of the squashed remains of automobiles. It will be a very thin layer.

Sometimes all the energy you put into something you think matters doesn't matter one bit.

Probably the most lasting result of the crusades was the trade which the Italian cities established with the Orient

Svatko je potencijalni Frankenstein, s nevjero­jatnom mo?i mijenjanja živog svijeta oko sebe. Na kraju, koliko nas odašilje uglavnom pozitivne misli?

There was no bombing of the U.S. mainland, no civilian casualties, no destruction of millions of homes. Indeed, while the standard of living plummeted for the vast majority of Britons during the war, many if not most Americans lived better than ever before.

Poland lost about 20 percent of its population, compared to 11 percent for the Soviet Union, 7 percent for Germany, and less than 1 percent for both the United States and Britain.

What would have happened if Hitler had not declared war on the United States, or if the Japanese had not attacked American soil?

If the ending is messy, one doesn't remember anything good about any of it.