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Quotes About Impact

I have endeavored to show that there is no real service of humanity in the profession of medicine and that it is injurious to mankind.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
The population of the planet is increasing at an alarming rate, and yet each day human beings manage to destroy ten species.
~ Frederick Lenz
The goal of 'Data Detectives' is to spark the imagination of students around the globe by making them think about new technologies that will impact humanity in ways similar to language and art.
~ Rick Smolan
Everybody's trying to leave their mark on the world. That's why there's graffiti and babies.
~ Kristen Schaal
There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
~ Dick Cavett
Before I speak, I have something important to say.
~ Groucho Marx
Are you recycling? Are you!? You just killed a polar bear! YOU!
~ Russell Howard
When I was 14, I saw someone getting their face and wrists slashed with a knife in a pub in Catford. Nobody lifted a finger. That's when I realised that violence wasn't funny. At all.
~ Noel Fielding
The inability to forget is far more devastating than the inability to remember.
~ Mark Twain
Helloooo? I just made some changes in my life, and if I don't get back to you as soon as possible, then guess what? You were one of those changes.
~ Rumiko Takahashi
In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.
~ Don Marquis
Someday we'll look back on this moment and plow into a parked car.
~ Evan Davis
How fatally the entire want of humor cripples the mind.
~ Alice James
I think the reason Jesus is so popular, just on a celebrity level, is that he died at the peak of his career.
~ Marc Maron
There's no such thing as legacies. At least, there is a legacy, but I'll never see it.
~ George W. Bush
You have the Midas touch. Everything you touch turns to a muffler.
~ Henny Youngman
If Lincoln were alive today, he'd be turning over in his grave.
~ Gerald R. Ford
If words had weight, a single sentence from Death would have anchored a ship.
~ Terry Pratchett
Children are often the silent victims of drug abuse.
~ Rick Larsen
Television is the triumph of machine over people.
~ Fred Allen
Sometimes, a word succeeds beyond the wildest dreams of its creators, like a virus sent into the world to infect common speech.
~ Jasper Fforde, The Eyre Affair
I can't help thinking the failed New York bomber would've done far more damage if he'd simply driven throught Times Square in a Toyota.
~ Frankie Boyle
I wish, when I was first born, the first thing I said was "Quote" so the last thing I said before I died would be "Unquote.
~ Steven Wright
Struck by lightning! Struck by lightning!
~ J.R.R. Tolkien