Quotes About Impact

Before Cook's arrival the native population of Hawai'i was more than a quarter of a million people; a hundred years later, it had plummeted to fewer than sixty thousand.

population of Hawai'i was more than a quarter of a million people; a hundred years later, it had plummeted to fewer than sixty thousand.

Before Cook's arrival the native population of Hawai'i was more than a quarter of a million people; a hundred years later, it

Yet sometimes it seems the world is more moved by the death of one white priest than by the passing of hundreds, thousands, of Hawaiians. Everyone knows Damien's name now, but will anyone remember these girls, other than you and me?

No one can dispute that. He was a good man, a kind man. "But you know, so was my husband Keo. So were hundreds of other men who lived and died here. Yet sometimes it seems the world is more moved by the death of one white priest than by the passing of hundreds, thousands, of Hawaiians. Everyone knows Damien's name now, but will anyone remember these girls, other than you and me?

Less explanation is more convincing than more explanation.

Does this bring more joy into the world, or does it diminish joy in the world?

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing. —ALBERT SCHWEITZER

La amenaza psicológica es mucho más peligrosa que la física porque te arrastra al lodo de la angustia, que nada tiene que ver con lo que está sucediendo en el momento.

When something sucks, it saps your energy and undermines the quality of your life. It makes you feel smaller and wish you hadn't participated.

The expression on her face was one the trooper would never forget: it was the look of someone still alive who realizes she's already dead

he had never killed anyone before. He still felt the same. The pistol had done the killing, not him. The man had set if off himself, as a consequence of his own idiotic actions.

remove a trigger from a gun and while the trigger itself would look decidedly unimportant, its absence would render the gun useless.

I found out the hard way that if we don't disciple people, the culture sure will. This

As with the destruction of the environment, no one intended to rob us of our interior lives. Each of us once swallowed that first bite of the wired world, then the second. Then we were addicted. Soon, we couldn't remember what we had lost. Our children, of course, were born into the wired world, never knowing any other way of life. All this in the name of "progress.

Sexually progressive cultures gave us literature, philosophy, civilization and the rest, while sexually restrictive cultures gave us the Dark Ages and the Holocaust.

No one will ever forget that night, and what it meant for this country. But I will never forget the man and what he meant to me.

While a truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power.

The Rudderless World is not shaped by vague metaphysical Forces. It is not God who kills the Children. Not Fate that butchers them or Destiny that feeds them to the Dogs. ... It´s us. Only us.

A world grows up around me. Am I shaping it, or do its predetermined contours guide my hand?

Such a small thing to cast such a long & uneasy shadow over the future. For whatever the future holds, one thing is certain: it just won't be the same.

Like it or not, horror is part of our media, part of our culture, part of our life.

These days, though, he'd lowered his sights and if he thought about what might be after death at all it was in terms of how he'd be remembered, or else how he'd be forgotten.

I guess it's what you'd call a metaphor: atomic energy has made America into a superpower, so maybe it could do the same for individual citizens – that's basically the point we're hoping you can get across for us.