Quotes About Impact

Appreciation can make a day, even change a life.

But all through the evening every time I looked at him I'd find his blue eyes fixed on me, with that naked look one can't help recognizing, and can't help remembering either that one has a certain power and occasionally men are vulnerable to it, and sometimes one ends up hurting them. But when it's happening it all seems worth it, and in the end too: however it ends I think, as far as I can tell so far, it still stays worth it.

We're a rather dreary generation on the whole, aren't we? We don't create much beauty of our own, and our one idea seems to be to smash up everybody else's creations.

Oh, he was just angry, we tell ourselves when someone blurts out something he later apologizes for. But a word, once spoken, lingers forever; to keep peace we pretend to forget, but we never do. Strange that a spoken word can have such lasting power when words carved on stone monuments vanish in spite of all our efforts to preserve them. What we would lose persists, lodged in our minds, and what we would keep is lost to water, moths, moss.

Probably the most visible example of unintended consequences, is what happens every time humans try to change the natural ecology of a place.

We can't change this world, but we can change ourselves so that we can be of service to this world.

When a woman who has much to say says nothing, her silence can be deafening.

She was a woman, slight, almost frail in appearance; not someone who could fight with guns to free the slaves, as in the United States, but someone who could fight with knowledge in the corner of the world where she found herself.

I stepped inside the front hall and kicked off my snow boots. I slammed the door behind me, making the dark ruby and emerald glass shake in the small leaded panes. I slid purposely on the hall rug, causing it to bunch and crinkle on the slippery polished oak of the floor.

Ci sono cose. Piccole cose che non dimenticherò, che sono niente e invece restano più forti di tutto.

I'll never know how many men loved her before me, but I know that each of them, whether he was good to her or wrong, did his part in shaping her, making her what she is.

Non saprò mai quanti uomini l'hanno amata prima di me, ma so che ognuno, accudendola o scalfendola, ha contribuito a plasmarla, a farla così com'è.

Remember that sometimes it's when we're simply being ourselves that we make a difference.

Never doubt that a small group of commited people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.

A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.

We are living beyond our means. As a people we have developed a lifestyle that is draining the earth of its priceless and irreplaceable resources without regard for the future of our children and people all around the world.

There is no reason to think a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens cannot change the world; Indeed, that's the only thing that ever has.

Never underestimate the power of a few committed people to change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

Never underestimate the power of a small, dedicated group of people to change the world; indeed, that is the only thing that ever has.

Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For indeed, that's all who ever have.

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.