Quotes About Impact

A typical carbon map, such as that produced in 2002 by the Vulcan Project at Purdue University, sends a very clear signal: countryside good, cities bad. For a long time, these were the only maps of this type, and there is certainly a logic in looking at pollution from a location-by-location perspective. But this logic was based on an unconsidered assumption, which is that the most meaningful way to measure carbon is by the square mile. It isn't. The best way to measure carbon is per person.

If a song is memory in some way, let's create a moment that you won't forget. There are lots of ways to do that

Imbuing fiction with a life that extends beyond the last word is in some ways the goal: the ending that goes beyond the ending in the reader's mind, so invested are they in the story.

The terrible thing, the thought I cannot dislodge after all I have seen, is that I can no longer say with conviction that this is a bad thing. Not when looking at the pristine nature of Area X and then the world beyond, which we have altered so much.

Terroir's direct translation is 'a sense of place,' and what it means is the sum of the effects of a localized environment, inasmuch as they impact the qualities of a particular product. Yes, that can mean wine, but what if you applied these criteria to thinking about Area X?

This was really the only thing I discovered in him after his return: a deep and unending solitude, as if he had been granted a gift that he didn't know what to do with. A gift that was poison to him and eventually killed him. But would it have killed me?

Most had bellies full of plastic. The plastic would grow and grow in their bellies until, years from now, as they mingled, as they drank expensive wine, their bellies would burst and out would come all the plastic, dribbling onto the floor. Pressing cool and bloody against some synthetic floor.

I want to lead an important life. I want to do it because I was born a human being.

You can tell about people by their absences. By the shape of the emptiness they leave behind.

HSPs make such good targets because we react so strongly.

the NPD person's complete self-absorption results in an insidious tendency to devalue those within his or her sphere of influence, either subtly with condescension, or openly with criticism. The inevitable impact on the individual in a relationship with an NPD person is a dangerous erosion of self-esteem.

Una ola de ira inundo mis calles y mis cielos vacíos. Esa ola que no se ve y que de pronto avanza, derriba puentes, muros, quita vidas y hace generales.

Some things exist only because they're talked about.

Every command consists of momentum and sting. The momentum forces the recipient to act, and to act in accordance with the content of the command; the sting remains behind in him. When a command functions normally and as one expects, there is nothing to be seen of the sting; it is hidden and unsuspected and may only reveal its existence by some faint, scarcely perceptible recalcitrance before the command obeyed.

Every command leaves behind a painful sting in the person who is forced to carry it out.

WyobraziÅ' sobie Å›lady swoich palców na jej pyzatym, tÅ'ustym, lÅ›niÄ…cym policzku. Ale z jakiej racji jeden policzek miaÅ'by by? uprzywilejowany. Nale?aÅ'oby bi? obiema rÄ™kami naraz. JeÅ›li nie utrafi, czerwone prÄ™gi bÄ™dÄ… z jednej strony wy?ej, z drugiej ni?ej. To byÅ'oby brzydkie. Studium chiÅ"skiej sztuki wyrobiÅ'o w nim namiÄ™tne zamiÅ'owanie do symetrii.

No child, not even the most ordinary, forgets or forgives a single one of the commands inflicted on it.

I don't want my past to become anyone else's future.

And action is the only remedy to indifference, the most insidious danger of all.

A word is worth a thousand pictures.

It is not always events that have touched us personally that affect us the most.

Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds.

You are the sum total of all that we have been," said the youngster who looked like my former self. "In a way we are the ones to execute John Dawson. Because you can't do it without us. Now, do you see?" I was beginning to understand. An act so absolute as that of killing involves not only the killer but, as well, those who have formed him. In murdering a man I was making them murderers.

action is the only remedy to indifference, the most insidious danger of all.