Quotes About Impact

At his parents' graves] I've brought a young man -- a boy, actually -- to stay at the house. He's … lost his parents at roughly the same age that I … That I lost you. I don't know what will happen. I don't see myself as any sort of father figure. But … I think I can make a difference in his life.

The turn of a sentence has decided the fate of many a friendship, and, for aught that we know, the fate of many a kingdom.

My name had become a brand. (I have mixed emotions about that part of our (Christian media) industry, for sure.)

The position I took at the time was that we hadn't really examined any of the potential environmental consequences of introducing genetically modified organisms.

We're finally going to get the bill for the Industrial Age. If the projections are right, it's going to be a big one: the ecological collapse of the planet.

Automobiles consumed "20 percent of the steel, 12 percent of the aluminum, 10 percent of the copper, 51 percent of the lead, 95 percent of the nickel, 35 percent of the zinc, and 60 percent of the rubber used in the U.S." by 1933.

But it was time to stop forgetting the world–and time to start changing it.

also risks of taking statins. To be sure, seeing a person in front of you has a greater impact than hearing about side effects secondhand. But even secondhand stories affect the way people think. We have also observed in

He swore at us in German (which I should judge to be a singularly effective language for that purpose)...

If you came and you found a strange man... teaching your kids to punch each other, or trying to sell them all kinds of products, you'd kick him right out of the house, but here you are; you come in and the TV is on, and you don't think twice about it.

Lady, I'm like, a kryptonite member.

Holiness begins in our minds and works out to our actions. This being true, what we allow to enter our minds is critically important. The television programs we watch, the movies we may attend, the books and magazines we read, the music we listen to, and the conversations we have all affect our minds.

It is clear from our Lord's prayer that He does not intend for us to withdraw from contact with the world of non-Christians (John 17:15). Instead, He said we are to be 'the salt of the earth' and 'the light of the world' (Matthew 5:13-14).

In the West, especially, we don't often consciously feel the actions of government impacting our lives from day to day.

You see, it is the effects of your being fired, not the act itself that determines whether you are tempted to become bitter.

Okay, so what we really have to recognize and own as Americans is that our way of being is itself perhaps the greatest threat to the continuation of civilization.

It looks to me to be obvious that the whole world cannot eat an American diet.

Your job is to learn to create drama. Once you can do that, you can do anything.

Over the course of a season, a miscue will cost you more than a good play.

This Nation has realized significant environmental improvements over the last three decades.

Business can be a source of progressive change.

The experience of war never quite leaves a young man or woman. A great many are utterly destroyed by it. All are indelibly and subtly marked by it, because, for good or evil, the memory never quite leaves any of us." Col.

Too many younger artists, critics, and curators are fetishizing the sixties, transforming the period into a deformed cult, a fantasy religion, a hip brand, and a crippling disease.

Early-twentieth-century abstraction is art's version of Einstein's Theory of Relativity. It's the idea that changed everything everywhere: quickly, decisively, for good.