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Quotes About Impact

Greg heard Frank Oppenheimer say: "It worked." Oppie said: "Yes, it worked." The two brothers shook hands. And the world is still here, Greg thought. But it has been forever changed.
~ Ken Follett
At last it faded away, and the mushroom cloud began to disperse. Greg heard Frank Oppenheimer say: "It worked." Oppie said: "Yes, it worked." The two brothers shook hands. And the world is still here, Greg thought. But it has been forever changed.
~ Ken Follett
Los manifestantes pueden causar un gran impacto, pero al final son los gobiernos los que remodelan el mundo.
~ Ken Follett
It's increasing the pressure on the Big Mules
~ Ken Follett
Because all this stuff about military targets is absolute rubbish. There's no point in bombing German factories, because they just rebuild them. So we're targeting large areas of dense working-class housing. They can't replace the workers so fast." Lowther looked shocked. "That would mean it's our policy to kill civilians.
~ Ken Follett
But everyone had to die, and Father had given his life for the sake of a better world. If more Germans had had his courage the Nazis would not have triumphed. She wanted to do all the things he had done: to raise her children well, to make a difference to her country's politics, to love and be loved. Most of all, when she died, she wanted her children to be able to say, as she said of her father, that her life had meant something, and that the world was a better place for it.
~ Ken Follett
If you want to change the world, then foreign relations is the field in which you can do the most good – or evil.
~ Ken Follett
Io credo che un romanzo sia riuscito quando tocca le emozioni del lettore. Lo stesso può valere per tutte le creazioni artistiche. Di sicuro è così per le cattedrali. Quando le vediamo stagliarsi contro il cielo restiamo sbalorditi, quando le visitiamo restiamo affascinati dalla loro grazia. Quando ci sediamo in silenzio proviamo un gran senso di pace. E quando una cattedrale brucia, piangiamo.
~ Ken Follett
She wanted to do all the things he had done: to raise her children well, to make a difference to her country's politics, to love and be loved. Most of all, when she died, she wanted her children to be able to say, as she said of her father, that her life had meant something, and that the world was a better place for it.
~ Ken Follett
Philip stepped forward to whip the king. He was glad he had lived to see this. After today, he thought, the world will never be quite the same.
~ Ken Follett
Un bebé era como una revolución, pensó Grigori: era posible iniciarla, pero no controlar qué derrotero tomaba. La
~ Ken Follett
She had never experienced a passion that had changed her life, unless it had been the drive to make the world a better place.
~ Ken Follett
thought, the world will never be quite the same.
~ Ken Follett
El fundador de la religión cristiana también causó bastantes problemas.
~ Ken Follett
So much hangs on the decisions of a small number of poorly educated people." "That's democracy.
~ Ken Follett
All the bows bent simultaneously, like blades of wheat in a field blown by a sudden summer breeze; then the arrows were released with a collective sound like a church bell tolling. The shafts, flying faster than the swiftest bird, rose into the air then turned downward and fell on the crossbowmen like a hailstorm.
~ Ken Follett
Protesters can have a big impact, but in the end it's governments that reshape the world
~ Ken Follett
Okay, stand outa the way. Sometimes when I go to exertin' myself I use up all the air nearby and grown men faint from suffocation. Stand back. There's liable to be crackin' cement and flying steel. Get the women and kids someplace safe. Stand back. . . .
~ Ken Kesey
but mostly, I guess, I want to really mean something to somebody
~ Ken Kesey
Pero, sea inocente o arrogante, sagrada o profana, la ignorancia es la ignorancia y toda ignorancia destruye la biosfera.
~ Ken Wilber
People exercise an unconscious selection in being influenced.
~ T. S. Eliot
Size is no guarantee of power.
~ J. K. Rowling
Even when nuclear power plants go horribly wrong, they do less damage to the planet and its people than coal-burning stations operating normally.
~ George Monbiot
The trains carrying coal to power plants are death trains. Coal-fired power plants are factories of death.
~ James Hansen