Quotes About Impact

Words have to find a man's mind before they can touch his heart, and some men's minds are woeful small targets.

If you make art, and you're not trying to make the world a better place, then what the fuck are you doing?!

Nobles' sons are one of nature's great destructive forces, like floods or tornadoes. When you're struck with one of these catastrophes, the only thing an average man can do is grit his teeth and try to minimise the damage.

speak least if you would be most often heard.

El grito derrumbó las paredes,…, salió del corazón, cruzó tumbas, pantanos y desiertos, pasó a gran velocidad por el paisaje nocturno de su alma, como un voraz incendio,… e irrumpió en el mundo, resonando mucho más allá de la altiplanicie… Si el grito no hubiese rasgado la niebla, se habría asfixiado así mismo: una muerte espantosa.

Odours have a power of persuasion stronger than that of words, appearances, emotions or will. The persuasive power of an odour cannot be fended off, it enters into us like breath into our lungs, it fills us up, imbues us totally. There is no remedy for it.

Barry remembered his dad saying that the casualties of war couldn't be counted only among the dead and the wounded.

I've always held the belief that you can accomplish more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

The smallest deed is greater than the grandest intention.

Why can't I write something that would awake the dead? That pursuit is what burns most deeply.

I imagined a lot of things. That I would shine. That I'd be good. I'd dwell bareheaded on a summit turning a wheel that would turn the earth undetected, amongst the clouds, I would have some influence; be of some avail.

It was an unexpected encounter that slowly altered the course of my life.

The knowledge of him added swagger to my step and this could not be stripped away.

You made my day, Patti,' he said as he hung up the phone. I can hear him saying that. I can hear it now.

But now Americans, they felt a sense of peace and protection because they've been separated by so many thousands of miles of ocean. And you know, the fact that it's come to the U.S. like this is so sad, and yet you know, what can you do? It's here.

The difference between civil servants and private businessmen is that when a central planner makes a mistake, he is likely to disrupt the whole economy and not just a single business.

I suggest that the Western impact, at least in nineteenth-century China, was overstated (and misstated) by an earlier generation of American historians. An especially egregious example of this, I argue, was American treatment of the Opium War, the objective importance of which was not nearly so great as we—and an almost unanimous corps of Chinese historians—have imagined.

Like Mendelsohn, Stewart believed the decline in pertussis in the United Kingdom had nothing to do with the vaccine; it was simply a matter of improved sanitation.

Within five years of Röntgen's invention, X-rays were considered essential for clinical care. In 1900, at Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia, 1.3 percent of all patients were X-rayed; by 1925, it was 25 percent. In 2009, a poll conducted by the Science Museum in London named the discovery of X-rays as more important than the discoveries of penicillin, computers, motorized cars, the telegraph, and the DNA double helix.

Nothing is more dangerous than science without poetry or technical progress without emotional content," wrote Houston Stewart Chamberlain, a German philosopher.

Pick a flower on Earth and you move the farthest star.

Living is worthwhile if one can contribute in some small way to this endless chain of progress.

In fact, all the additional knowledge gained by an irrationally constituted society may but enlarge and enhance the powers of death and destruction.

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