Quotes About Impact

The hand that signed the paper felled a city;Five sovereign fingers taxed the breath,Doubled the globe of dead and halved a country;These five kings did a king to death.

A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. – Dylan Thomas

The greatest impact on learning is the daily lived experiences of students in classrooms, and that is determined much more by how teachers teach than by what they teach.

the shorter the time interval between eliciting the evidence and using it to improve instruction, the bigger the likely impact on learning.

The bullet hole opened wide and my heart rolled out of my rib cage and down into a flower bed.

And we really should be considering the moral implications of what we're doing. What kind of a species are we that we treat the rest of life so cheaply? There are those who think that's the destiny of Earth: We arrived, we're humanizing the Earth, and it will be the destiny of Earth for us to wipe humans out and most of the rest of biodiversity. But I think the great majority of thoughtful people consider that a morally wrong position to take, and a very dangerous one.

Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.

Every action in our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.

I love the idea of the big life - the life that matters, the life that makes a difference. The life where stuff happens, where people take action. The opposite of the life where the girl can't even speak to the boy she likes; the opposite of the life where the friends aren't even good friends, and lots of days are wasted away feeling bored and kind of okay, like nothing matters much.

Frankie appreciated both the accolades and the rejections equally, because both meant she'd had an impact. She wasn't a person who needed to be liked so much as she was a person who liked to be notorious.

Eso fue amor, y me golpeó tan fuerte que me apoyé contra la pantalla de la puerta que seguía de pie entre nosotros, sólo para permanecer vertical.

Ç?kan ses zarars?z olabilir, ama yank? daima kötüdür.

The crime of suicide lies in its disregard for the feelings of those whom we leave behind.

The philosopher's stone which turned a mobster in Newport, Kentucky into a pillar of the community in Las Vegas, Nevada was "philanthropy.

Few will doubt that humankind has created a planet-sized problem for itself. No one wished it so, but we are the first species to become a geophysical force, altering Earth's climate, a role previously reserved for tectonics, sun flares, and glacial cycles.

If we were to wipe out insects alone on this planet, the rest of life and humanity with it would mostly disappear from the land. Within a few months.

The education of women is the best way to save the environment.

It's not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.

But it struck him that people are not really dead until they are felt to be dead. As long as there is some misunderstanding about them, they possess a sort of immortality.

The crime of suicide lies rather in its disregard for the feelings of those whom we leave behind.

I'd far rather leave a thought behind me than a child. Other people can have children.

There is only a certain amount of kindness in the world…just as there is a certain amount of light. We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things…Choose a place where you won't do very much harm and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine.

The bully and the victim never quite forget their first relations.

Every little trifle, for some reason, does seem incalculably important today, and when you say of a thing that 'nothing hangs on it,' it sounds like blasphemy. There's never any knowing—(how am I to put it?)—which of our actions, which of our idlenesses won't have things hanging on it for ever.