Quotes About Impact

Why the hell's he preachin' if he don't preach to people that need it?

It's quite uncanny what one sets in motion by being oneself.

Everything that's been done to us we carry forever.

You don't have to speak much if you speak well," Meloux replied.

When she sang she could make people laugh or dance or fall in love or go to war.

As rock became less a movement and more a business, its impact, though not its popularity, declined. It seemed unlikely that rock would soon become a television staple. But some day its fans would be middle-aged, so even that possibility could not be permanently excluded.

Had the eighty-four-year-old wandering miller not made his unexpected reappearance to recognize the paternity of his thirty-nine-year-old-son nearly thirty years after the death of the mother, Adolf Hitler would have been born Adolf Schicklgruber. There may not be much or anything in the name, but I have heard Germans speculate whether Hitler could have become the master of Germany had he been known to the world as Schicklgruber.

At seventeen, I knew: my entire childhood had been just a prelude to this girl. I had never felt anything like it, and still haven't. I felt changed by her, physically. I became a different person, myself, the person I am now. And everything that came after-my family, my home, our entire life together-was a gift she gave me.

And we would always be shaped by the experience, in ways we could not guess at the time.

There is an immediacy here which is both refreshing and startling.

The negative cost of Lewis and Clark entering the Garden of Eden is that later expeditions regardless of what they were intended to do, later expeditions did not deal with the native peoples with the intelligence with the almost kindly resolve that Lewis and Clark did.

The success of any great moral enterprise does not depend upon numbers.

not a bullet hole but a "ballistically induced aperture in the subcutaneous environment.

What matters, though, is not the space you're put in to work; what matters is the work you do in it. The Manhattan Project, the World War II race to develop the atomic bomb, also started out under a football stadium. Beneath the stands of Stagg Field at the University of Chicago, a team of physicists led by Enrico Fermi built a crude fission reactor, brought its uranium fuel to critical mass, and set off a chain reaction that changed the world. We

Debemos ser en extremo cuidadosos De la semilla que nuestra mano sembrará; El amor del amor germinará, El odio del odio crecerá".

Are not there little chapters in everybody's life, that seem to be nothing, and yet affect all the rest of the history?

one small decision has the power to make a real difference for the economy

Design is the first signal of human intention. When we look at plastics in our environment, if it's our intention to do these things then we must question our intentions. If it's not our intention, then what's our plan? The question becomes how we can behave in a way that works.

The year came and receded like any other leaving its flotsam of the grotesque, the memorable, the trivial.

Everyone is equally responsible for the shit they bring into the world.

I can still feel it. I don't mean 'in my tender heart, it still pains me so.' I can still feel what he did, in my body, standing here, right now.

Do you know how much damage we could do to each other in an hour?

So one begins to wonder what is going to happen to the human race. Technology keeps on advancing with greater and greater power, either for good or for destruction.

There is a difficulty with only one person changing. People call that person a great saint or a great mystic or a great leader, and they say, 'Well, he's different from me - I could never do it.' What's wrong with most people is that they have this block - they feel they could never make a difference, and therefore, they never face the possibility, because it is too disturbing, too frightening.