Quotes About Impact

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.

My beloved son Thomas did caution, when first I set out to flow this tale upon the world, that although they may not be felt like a fist or a whip, words have a power that can nevertheless cower even the largest man to gibbering tears.

There are some words that once spoken will split the world in two. There would be life before you breathed them and then the altered life after they had 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.

Today we use the term "attachment disorder" to describe the profound impact on children's emotional and psychological development of being denied a consistent and intimate relationship with a trusted caregiver. We can only guess at how John Stephen and millions like him were affected by being denied the core human experience of a parent–child relationship.

Let me put it this way: if someone still thinks that a single country can withstand the influence of multinational corporations, then it's about time for him to wake up and smell the coffee.

The actual explosives are the slower developments, like an increasing world population, increased industrialization, climate change, and so forth.

It only becomes art if it touches other people.

Did the fleet of the Empire have that ability—to destroy an entire solar system?" Yes, Emparak thought. They did it often enough.

The definition of gross national product is nonsense, because they don't put such factors as environmental damage and limited resources into the calculation. In the mean time there is another parameter, the gross domestic product, but this is not much better.

For the moment, Mr. Fontanelli, your trillion is nothing but a pile of money that's lying around uselessly. But if you use it to gain economic influence, you may be able to force the world to change!

It has taken the science some time to catch up and connect the dots, but, in 2012, one pathbreaking study derived one third of all existential threats to animal species straight from the sale of goods like coffee, beef, tea, sugar and palm oil to countries of the North.

If SUV drivers were a nation, in 2018 they would have ranked seventh for CO2 emissions.

The oil being taken out of the ground and the machinery that does it and the infrastructure which supports it – this is violent',

Perhaps humanity should thank Covid-19 for taking the early route through Europe.

Those who would administer wisely must, indeed, be wise, for one of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity.

Do real and permanent good in this world.

There were people who saw the future of warfare coming from the skies. And they always knew that would mean bombing civilians. That's what it was always about, though no one would say it aloud. You see, they thought that if you killed enough civilians it would bring a quick end to any war.

One of the most extraordinary things about being a spiritual teacher is the rare privilege of being able to look deeply into the very souls of many human beings at the same time.

Marriage equality changed life for people.

your mind becomes a supercomputer capable of calculating the gyrations of your car, multiplying that by the speed of the fall over the angle of descent, factoring in Newton's laws of motion and, in a split second, coming to the panicked conclusion that this is gonna hurt like hell.

'Eyes Wide Open' took shape from two real life events straight from my own past. One was the sad suicide of my young nephew, a troubled kid, who was found at the bottom of a landmark cliff in central California. The second was a chance encounter forty years ago with none other than, ahem, Charles Manson!

the global impact of pure science rises above all national boundaries, and the sheer timelessness of pure mathematics transcends the limitations of his twentieth-century span. When Turing returned to the prime numbers in 1950 they were unchanged from when he left them in 1939, wars

A good idea is an orphan without effective communication.

justified the hyperbole. With the ongoing "war" approaching the ten-year mark, the U.S. economy shed a total of 7.9 million jobs in just three years.3 For only the second time since World War II, the official unemployment rate topped 10 percent. The