Quotes About Impact

Words cut deeper than knives

Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt.

Ralph Waldo Emerson once observed that "an institution is the lengthened shadow of one man." Emerson

bomb v. 1. effective deliver of ordnance (DOD) Phrases such as "effective delivery of ordnance" are not likely to invoke mental pictures of thousands of tons of bombs falling on buildings and people.

civilian casualties n. collateral damage When General Bernard Rogers was asked if collateral damage meant civilian casualties, he said "Yes.

This point deserves repetition because it is so critical: The most cost-effective way to reduce CO2 emissions is to reduce the use of coal first and most sharply.

A recent study shows that one hundred per cent of youngsters on hard drugs had at some time in their lives listened to so-called pop music

In his own way the modernist becomes as irrelevant as the fundamentalist. The fundamentalist has something to say to his world, but he has lost the ability to say it. The modernist knows how to speak to his age, but he has nothing to say.

los organismos de ayuda no pueden acabar con la pobreza en el mundo, pero sí pueden hacer muchas cosas útiles para satisfacer las desesperadas necesidades de los pobres y darles nuevas oportunidades.

Decent people should ignore politics, if only they could be confident that politics would ignore them

Hit hard, hit fast, hit often!

The past is never dead, it is not even past.

The past is never dead. It's not even past.

In literary composition a well-chosen quotation lights up the page like a fine engraving...

Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil---the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.

he second most deadly instrument of destruction is the dynamite gun,—the first is the human tongue. The gun merely kills bodies; the tongue kills reputations and, ofttimes, ruins characters. Each gun works alone; each loaded tongue has a hundred accomplices. The havoc of the gun is visible at once. The full evil of the tongue lives through all the years; even the eye of Omniscience might grow tired in tracing it to its finality.

He took a duck in the face at 250 knots.

The apothegm is the most portable form of Truth.... It is thus that the proverb answers where the sermon fails, as a well-charged pistol will do more execution than a whole barrel of gunpowder idly expended in the air.

What power there is in the word my.

There have been five great kisses since 1642 B.C...(before then couples hooked thumbs.) And the precise rating of kisses is a terribly difficult thing, often leading to great controversy.... Well, this one left them all behind.

they ignore all the effects on other members of society than the ones they have in view. They

Social improvement is not to be won by direct effort. It is secondary, and results from physical or economic improvements. That

time cannot do to ordinary things what we timelessly do to one another.

Everyone hooks up with George Clooney. He's a genuinely cool guy. He's using his powers for good.