Quotes About Impact

how the sensational always sticks in the mind and stands out at the expense of the ordinary, which – maybe precisely because it is so ordinary – tells us something more significant about the real world.

Well, don't tell me that sexual freedom was Stalin's lasting contribution to mankind.

sabía demasiado bien hasta qué punto el odio y las mentiras distorsionan la realidad y destruyen a las personas,

You either have a useful contribution to make or you don't, regardless of whether you're head of the office or the emperor of China.

Lo que más me aterra en este mundo —le dice Neil a Wayne— es la posibilidad de que le destroces la vida a alguien sin tú saberlo. O incluso de que le cambies la vida. Detesto pensar que uno puede tener ese poder, yo sería una madre deplorable.

having some warm and fuzzy impulse to make the world a better place isn't enough. It doesn't make you an artist. What's been lost is any appreciation of virtuosity, of flair.

I'm just trying to make a smudge on the collective unconscious.

BP has put more birds in oil than Colonel Sanders.

i will admit there's a certain degree of giving a fuck that goes into not giving a fuck. by saying you don't care if the world falls apart, in some small way you're saying you want it to stay together, on your terms.

Every time I have to make a choice," he said, "I feel the weight of making the right one—not just for the moment, not just for me, but for how my decisions will affect everyone. I'm terrified I'll do something, or not do something, and the consequences will be terrible.

Proximity, I have learned, is often as effective as violence.

This generation can only reach this generation.

The heavier a mother became in pregnancy, the heavier her offspring were likely to be, both at birth and in mid-childhood, possibly accounting for several hundred thousand annual cases of obesity worldwide.

all too often contributes

Online pornography allows individuals to explore creative sexual possibilities they never knew existed but also creates entirely unrealistic expectations for real life sexual interactions.

One frequently hears that there are not enough places for people to go. But where do we not go? We are too many and tread too heavily. (Perhaps the world is to blame for being too small.)

Just one touch will change your life for all eternity.

Words are powerful. They too can be the agents of what is new, of what is conceivable and can be thought and let loose upon the world.

It's only words... unless they're true.

What you make happen for others, God will make happen for you.

God doesn't bless us just to make us happy; He blesses us to make us a blessing.

If God built me a ladder to heaven, I would climb it and elbow drop the world

God didn't make you a leader to respond to stuff all day. He made you a leader to move things forward.

My nephews all look at me differently now. Before, they couldn't relate to me, and now I'm like a god.