Quotes About Impact

It makes us, or it mars us.

William Shakespeare

My dad was good with actions.

the most important element in the entire process was story, story, story. "It's always the good story," he said. "It doesn't matter how many ships you blow up, how many missiles you fire, how many fights or disasters or stunts you show. Is it a good story? Is it something you can take home with

If you are minimal, then even a small gesture becomes a big deal.

Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.

You are a memory too strong to leave this world...

How did the world ever manage without me before I was born?' he wondered. 'Didn't they feel something was missing?

The 1760s were followed by the American Revolution, the 1850s by Civil War, the 1920s by the Great Depression and World War II. All these Unraveling eras were followed by bone-jarring Crises so monumental that, by their end, American society emerged in a wholly new

She could do to me with one eyebrow what two weeks without water can do to a plant.

This war differs from other wars, in this particular. We are not fighting armies but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war.

It should be an explosion of truth. Its strength lies in what it leaves out just as much as what it puts in, if not more.

Solar energy, in its many forms, has accustomed us to the idea that using energy must create huge environmental impacts, either by polluting or by occupying vast tracts of land. Terrestrial energy is so highly concentrated that it can provide us with enormous amounts of energy while barely leaving a trace. Combined with the contributions of solar power, terrestrial energy offers us the opportunity to power the world while eliminating all manners of environmental degradation.

Even the mightiest oak can fall by a gentle touch

"Worse than idle is compassion if it ends in tears and sighs."

Enough, if something from our hands have powerTo live, and act, and serve the future hour.

Oh, to say something so fine, so memorable, that it carries across time, oceans, and languages!

[D]ifferent people have different quotational gravity.

The Yanks have colonized our subconscious.

We will speak of what we must do concerning the Frenchman, who now comes as many as the locusts—who drinks the water, burns the wood, and kills the buffalo of our hunting grounds, so that the Shoshone people may one day have not enough to eat.

If you would not be forgotten As soon as you are dead and rotten, Either write things worth reading, Or do things worth the writing.

I would argue yes. In fact, I would question the inverse. Can men of privilege...who do not feel the impact of policies on forests, children or their ability to breastfeed children...actually have the compassion to make policy that is reflection of the interests of others. At this point, I think not.

If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.

We shape our buildings, and afterwards our buildings shape us.