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Quotes About Impact

Somehow, when a person you like reads your poem and says they like it, the poem seems all fresh and new afterwards. I wonder why?
~ Unknown
A club hurts the flesh, but evil words hurt the bone. -Traditional Chinese Proverb
~ Matthew Polly
I think movies glamorize violence, in the sense that they make it in a way that it's either cool or funny.
~ Matthew Vaughn
Altruism is like rings in the water when you toss a pebble. At first the circles are very small, then they get larger, and finally they embrace the entire surface of the ocean. —ALEXANDRE JOLLIEN
~ Matthieu Ricard
Others, however, point out that science is incapable of revealing all truths, and that while technology has produced huge benefits, the ravages it has caused are at least as great. What is more, science is silent when it comes to providing wisdom about how we should live.
~ Matthieu Ricard
Les déchets animaux polluent les eaux plus que toutes les autres sources industrielles combinées
~ Matthieu Ricard
15 à 20 % des émissions mondiales de méthane sont liées à l'élevage des animaux. Depuis deux siècles, la concentration de méthane dans l'atmosphère a plus que doublé. Les ruminants – bÅ"ufs, vaches, buffles, moutons, chèvres et chameaux Ã¢â'¬â€œ constituent l'une des sources les plus importantes de production de méthane (37 % des émissions liées à l'homme).
~ Matthieu Ricard
11 % des décès chez les hommes et 16 % chez les femmes pourraient être évités par une réduction de la consommation de viande rouge1356.
~ Matthieu Ricard
History is a more or less bunk, the only history that is worth a damn is what we make today.
~ Maureen Duffy
There is nothing about a bad situation that fourteen hyper cheerleaders can't worsen.
~ Maureen Johnson
Forms are 'scars' of forces and forces vibrate within forms.
~ Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Meaning gives force and the more meaning this work has for you the more it will affect you emotionally and the more force will you obtain from it. For it is from the awakening of the emotional centre that the greatest force is derived.
~ Maurice Nicoll
In fact, I argue that the future of advertising, whatever the technology, will be to associate each brand with one word. This is one word equity. It's the modern equivalent of having the best site on the high street, except the location is in the mind.
~ Maurice Saatchi
A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmental damaging consumption patterns.
~ Maurice Strong
It is worth noting that the fiscal impact of immigrants is more positive at the federal level—given that most of them are of working age—than at the state and local levels, which fund the education of their children.
~ Unknown
The here and now is shaped by the back then..
~ Max Allan Collins
But the loveliest face in all the world will not please you if you see it suddenly, eye to eye, at a distance of half an inch from your own.
~ Max Beerbohm
The unforgettable thing in his life is usually not a thing he has done or left undone, but a thing done to him—some insolence or cruelty for which he could not, or did not, avenge himself.
~ Max Beerbohm
Words," said the host, at length, "is worse'n bullets. You never know what they'll hit.
~ Max Brand
But then, there's a thing that's harder to watch than a sword or nitroglycerin. It cuts and it tears—a tongue does!
~ Max Brand
Word's is worse'n bullets. You never know what they'll hit.
~ Max Brand
cherish a desire to do some useful work in your little corner of the world,
~ Max Ehrmann
Readers are the leaders others follow.
~ Unknown
Our guilt has its uses. It justifies much in the lives of others.
~ Max Frisch