Quotes About Impact

Whatever I am, you did it.

It never occurred to me that one man could start to play with the faith of fifty million people- with the single mindedness of a burglar blowing a safe.

Note also in the epilogue that I want to show that Stahr left certain harm behind him just as he left good behind him.

We have two or three great moving experiences in our lives-experiences so great and moving that it doesn't seem at the time that anyone else has been so caught up and pounded and dazzled and astonished and beaten and broken and rescued and illuminated and rewarded in just that way ever before.

Be', non sai mai esattamente che posto hai occupato nella vita degli altri.

It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced--or seemed to face--the whole external world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor.

With the influence of a dress her personality had also undergone a change.

A person lives for years, touches so many people, and then at the end winds up just a small picture and a few paragraphs in the paper, the paper gets thrown away, and it's all over.

They always said, that once you've been to Milwaukee, you're never the same.

The war was over, but it had taken its toll. More than 400,000 Americans had been killed and 1.7 million had been hurt in some way. And most people didn't know about the 39 WASPs who had been killed or that 16 Army nurses had died by enemy fire, and 67 had been taken prisoner, including Nurse Dottie Frakes, who was held in a Japanese concentration camp for more than three years.

Once you've been to Milwaukee, you're never the same.

Various studies estimate that somewhere between 70 million and 430 million people will be pushed back into extreme poverty over the next few years. The most essential inequality—between the very richest and the poorest humans on the planet—is now growing again and at a rapid rate.

80 billion animals are slaughtered for meat every year around the world. (And that doesn't even count fish.)

The most consequential by far was the bubonic plague, which began in Central Asia in the 1330s and spread to Europe in the following decade.

months. Various studies estimate that somewhere between 70 million and 430 million people will be pushed back into extreme poverty over the next few years.

At the end of April 2020, low-income and middle-income countries, which have 84% of the world's population, were home to just 14% of the world's known deaths from Covid-19.

One must be careful with words. Words turn probabilities into facts and by sheer force of definition translate tendencies into habits.

money talks and poop walks as they say.

Every gesture is a revolutionary act.

Todo o mal do mundo vem de nos importarmos uns com os outros,    Quer para fazer bem, quer para fazer mal.

Nuestros padres destruyeron alegremente porque vivían en una época que todavía tenía reflejos de la solidez del pasado. Era aquello mismo que destruían lo que prestaba fuerza a la sociedad para que pudiesen destruir sin sentir agrietarse al edificio. Nosotros heredamos la destrucción y sus resultados.

Thought can be lofty without being elegant, but to the extent it lacks elegance it will have less effect on others. Force without finesse is mere mass.

Só com um jeito do corpo Feito sem dares por isso Fazes mais mal que o demônio Em dias de grande enguiço.

Nosotros heredamos la destrucción y sus resultados.