Quotes About Impact

When American parents of Italian or Polish or Kenyan background tell their children to "stop acting like wild Indians," they are not intending to promote bigotry, but they are promoting it nonetheless. And when parents in rural areas of the Philippines tell their children to "stop acting like Jews," anti-Judaism is the unintended result. Disease cannot be cured when those infected are in denial.

history doesn't die and it doesn't not fall coma

The Friedman's ideas played an essential part in my life

My theme for philanthropy is the same approach I used with technology: to find a need and fill it.

A book is meant not only to be read, but to haunt you, to importune you like a lover or a parent, to be in your teeth like a piece of gristle.

Those who have given themselves the most concern about the happiness of peoples have made their neighbors very miserable.

A rotten fish spoils all the fish in the basket.

Who taught you to swear first? Who burst your head wide open with a sentence? Whose linguistic tics have you ingested, do you know, bust out without thinking

Whether the world be good or evil I cannot say, but I am certain that it is men like Bazin who make it a better place. For, in believing life to be good and behaving accordingly, André had a beneficial effect on all who came in contact with him, and one could count on the fingers of one hand those who behaved badly toward him.

The screen uses violence in such a customary fashion that it seems somehow like a devalued currency, which is at one and the same time provoking and conventional.

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity — romantic love and gunpowder.

People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel.

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity -- romantic love and gunpowder.

Yo luzco y difumino tus aires, para que pasen a ser esencia trágica de los que ya me conocen, de los que me ven y ya no me olvidan. Para los muertos

Photography affects us like a phenomenon in nature, like a flower or a snowflake whose vegetable or earthly origins are an inseparable part of their beauty.

It's one of those showers that make you think you should write a check to several environmental groups – and maybe plant a tree.

some people are thermometers, some are thermostats. You're a thermostat. You don't register the temperature in a room, you change it.

Andre, he says, some people are thermometers, some are thermostats. You're a thermostat. You don't register the temperature in a room, you change it. So be confident, be yourself, take charge.

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity – gunpowder and romantic love.

It is my personality alone that has brought back the waltz and made it a global craze.

Il punto non sembrava quello di colpire, on ogni caso, ma di lacerare lo spazio, rompere gli equilibri.

President Obama's 100-day plan is pretty impressive. I think it's a Wow 100-plus days. The administration is not operating from fear, it is trying to drive change for the future, and that's a good thing.

When a woman earns a dollar, the payback is higher. She'll invest in her children, in their education, health care, and basic needs. The impact of a woman's role in the economy benefits society at large.

There are some words that once spoken will split the world in two. There would be the life before you breathed them and then the altered life after they'd been said. They take a long time to find, words like that. They make you hesitate. Choose with care. Hold on to them unspoken for as long as you can just so your world will stay intact.