Quotes About Impact

the real route out of poverty is to pay a living wage to the millions of care workers, teaching assistants, cleaners and labourers. And to afford these jobs the status their impact on society deserves.

At the end of the day the question comes, what are you doing for the world? You have to try to do something that's going to add something positive.

Wars damage the civilian society as much as they damage the enemy. Soldiers never get over it.

We can only hope we leave behind persons whose lives are better for our having lived.

The ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world are the ones who do.

We assume that everything's becoming more efficient, and in an immediate sense that's true our lives are better in many ways. But that improvement has been gained through a massively inefficient use of natural resources.

When you add up the impact on carbon sequestration and storage, forest protection and tropical and temperate forest restoration together are the most powerful solution available to address global warming.

the heart of a child can take forty-nine blows before it's damaged for ever and what's done can never be undone.

When he said someone had 'died", Erd?s meant that that the person had stopped doing mathematics. When he said someone had "left", the person had died.

Sweeping and dramatic changes make for good theater, but in real life, they're not effective.

The people who influence our presidents matter.

Trauma is a unique phenomenon all on its own, as if it is an entity in and of itself.

five-pound trigger

Millions of lives were eventually transformed because of what happened during those three days. Countless

It was Elvis who really got me hooked on beat music. When I heard 'Heartbreak Hotel' I thought, this is it.

Think globally, act locally.

For you know that it's a fool who plays it cool, by making his world a little colder.

We are creatures of the cruelties we witness.

Whoever dismisses bigotry or underestimates its impact has never lived under the pain.

It has been a privilege to pursue knowledge for its own sake and to see how it might help mankind in more practical ways.

When dad is absent," she explained, "it basically provides young girls with a cue about what the future holds in terms of the mating system they are born into.

Our failure to acknowledge fathers' importance is now reflected in the shape of the American family. Fathers are disappearing. Fewer American fathers are participating in the lives of their children now than at any time since the United States began keeping records.

And the biggest, coldest power play of all in Obamacare came at the expense of the elderly.

What I'm concerned about is endless borrowing, which is going to compromise our economy not only today but in the future. Because we know the decisions we make right now really dramatically impact us in the future, and the debt is literally getting out of our control.