Quotes About Impact

By 1800 the U.S. Indian population stood at about 600,000, a pathetic remnant of the estimated 2.2 million on the eve of European colonization.

Small sparks can start big fires.

the total number of dams that alter the Mississippi River watershed is in excess of 50,000.

There are images that stay vividly in your mind, even after many years: images coupled with the feeling that at the same time came to you. Sometimes you can know that such an image has been selected to stay with you forever out of the hundreds you every day encounter.

Your life and destiny are determined to a large extent by your participation in the outcome.

Robert Plant had cut his hair and was wearing parachute pants for God's sake. Nobody was impervious to what was going on—even the Who and the Stones were affected by

Do good things', he murmured. 'Try to make a difference.

Children who witness violence experience many of the same ill effects as those who are directly abused.

For once in his life, Norman has acted rather than gone to a meeting. And this is where it has landed him.

History is the most dangerous product evolved from the chemistry of the intellect.

Un choc qui nous atteint dans une direction imprévue nous donne brusquement une sensation nouvelle de l'existence de notre corps en tant qu'inconnu; nous ne savions pas tout ce que nous étions, et il arrive que cette sensation brutale nous rende elle-même sensibles, par un effet secondaire, à une grandeur et à une figure inattendues de notre domaine vivant.

Knowing causation is far more useful than knowing association.

We have already exterminated 90% of the fish. The fish population is 90% smaller than it was before we began to wage war on the oceans. (p. 209)

Energy Management is a journey - Take small but important steps towards making a significant impact on your utility consumption, costs but more importantly save our planet.

Climate Change - "We cannot stop it but we can slow it down

One of the things that ultimately led me to leave mathematics and go into political science was thinking I could prevent nuclear war.

That sense of what happened in Europe in World War II has shaped a lot of my views.

Gradually, we have become each other's weather.

There was nothing to imagine with a gun except something that was dead.

Don't tell readers what to think. Let the action speak for itself.

he grinned a grin that began in his eyes and went everywhere at once. It was devastating.

Places change us, don't they? Sometimes more than we can even guess.

A week passes but it feels as if he's never been anywhere else. It's one of the things war does to you. Everything you see works to replace moments and people from your life before, until you can't remember why any of it mattered. It doesn't help if you're a soldier. The effect is the same.

My father died when I was young. We all thought it was rather fortunate at first. It simplified all sorts of things. But over time…well. Let's just say I've developed a theory that only the vanished truly leave their mark. And I still don't feel I've sorted it out. Maybe we never do survive our families.