Quotes About Impact

His environment had left its unlikable marks on him

The problem, of course, with throwing people away is that they don't go away. They stay in the society that turned its back on them. And whether that society likes it or not, they find all sorts of things to do.

All that you touch You Change. All that you Change Changes you.

I startled it. No, I shocked it profoundly—and it transmitted to me the full impact of that shock. Its multisensory illusions felt more real than things that actually happened, and this was worse than an illusion. This was a sudden, swift cycling of its own intense surprise and fear. From me to it to me. Closed loop. I

I hope people who read Parable of the Sower will think about where we seem to be heading--we the United States, even we the human species. Where are we going? What sort of future are we creating? Is it the kind of future you want to live in? If it isn't, what can we do to create a better future?

It was ... more poison packed tight together in one place than I've ever known. Did Humans make it that way on purpose?

All that you touch You Change. All that you Change Changes you. The only lasting truth Is Change.

I don't believe that there are dangerous writers: the danger of certain books is not in the books themselves but in the passions of their readers.

The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do so with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

A smile remains the most inexpensive gift I can bestow on anyone and yet its powers can vanquish kingdoms.

I think that I shall never see, a billboard lovely as a tree. Perhaps, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all.

I think that I shall never see A billboard lovely as a tree. Perhaps, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all.

I think that I shall never seeA billboard lovely as a tree.Indeed, unless the billboards fallI'll never see a tree at all.

Humanity also suffered; though, save in the regions near the seat of war, it was in general only the children and the old people who suffered greatly.

Fame is like dust in a gusty wind. You never know in which way it is blowing. If you ever face the gust of the wind, don't get carried away.

Ibland sätter man grimma på skönheten i det ondas intresse, då reduceras den till fägring för ögat, till båtnad för folket.

But the truth is that anyone who feels Anger, and does not take action, merely spreads the infection.

At the bridge the wind hits both of them like a kind of lady boxer.

No, I wasn't going to refer to cowardice. What I was going to say was, that a man contemplating suicide should bear in mind that his act is usually paid for by others. It is not just his personal affair. Everyone who takes his or her own life increases the fear in all his progeny of committing the same act during a period of depression. In fact, every blood relation he possesses gets a drop of the same poison. Nice parting gift.

In my time, the follies of the town crept slowly among us, but now they travel faster than a stagecoach.

Clean air acts were not passed for the benefit of the air, but for the benefit of those who breathed it.

It is obvious,' wrote Vogt, 'that fifty years hence the world cannot support three billion people at any but coolie standards

There was never a great man who had not a great mother.