Quotes About Impact

Some people ask if I regret not having a family. Not at all. Some women are cut out to be mommies. Some are superwomen with the stamina to do it all. I am not one of them. My elementary school math teacher was right: I would have been a lousy housewife. Instead I am lucky enough to work and interact with talented and stimulating people on a job where no day is ever the same as any other. And I get to touch thousands of people in some way.

As long as you keep on fighting the things you think are wrong, you're living. It isn't the evil people in the world who do the most harm. It's the sweet do-nothings that can destroy us.

A whole roomful of Jews is like a charged battery. The vitality sparks seem to fly, and frequently the result is a short circuit.

We all leave one another. We die, we change - it's mostly change - we outgrow our best friends; but even if I do leave you, I will have passed on to you something of myself; you will be a different person because of knowing me; it's inescapable...

Sometimes one word can recall a whole span of life.

The teaching of BASIC should be rated as a criminal offence: it mutilates the mind beyond recovery.

GENNARO Paise distrutte, creature sperze, fucilazione… E quanta muorte… 'E lloro e 'e nuoste… E quante n'aggio viste… (Atterrito dalla visione che gli ritorna alla memoria più viva con tutti i suoi particolari) 'E muorte so' tutte eguale…»

La pregunta es esta, mi amigo: ¿hay tantos hijos de puta como uno cree, o la influencia de los hijos de puta sobre sus semejantes es mayor que la de la gente buena, y es por eso que uno cree que son más que los que en realidad son?

Supongo que ésos son los recuerdos que se le meten a uno en los recovecos del corazón, y echan cría y se nutren de su propio néctar, y nos marcan para toda la vida. Por lo menos así ocurrió conmigo.

No solo nos marca la familia en la que nacemos, sino también el momento que vive esa familia cuando nacemos.

Ninguno de mis días estaba escrito en el día anterior, pero lo que me impacta es que, una vez vivido, cada día antecede y explica y establece y justifica y condiciona lo que sucederá después, con los días venideros

A veces es asombroso el daño que podemos causar sin proponérnoslo

Boxing day will never be the same now that Muhammed Ali is gone.

The domination of nature leads to the domination of human nature.

Man the Pest, multiplied to the swarming stage, is attacking the remaining forests like a plague of locusts on a field of grain.

The industrial way of life leads to the industrial way of death. From Shiloh to Dachau, from Antietam to Stalingrad, from Hiroshima to Vietnam and Afghanistan, the great specialty of industry and technology has been the mass production of human corpses.

The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages - as if the savages weren't dangerous enough already.

Philosophy without action is the ruin of the soul. One brave deed is worth a hundred books, a thousand theories, a million words. Now as always we need heroes. And heroines! Down with the passive and the limp.

Those who have no sense of posterity or any concern for future generations are the ones who are really dead. I mean, they are dead right now. Walking zombies.

Lake Powell: storage pond, silt trap, evaporation tank and garbage dispose-all, a 180-mile-long incipient sewage lagoon.

The shock of the real.

Keep the tourists out," some tourist from Salt Lake City has written. As fellow tourists we heartily agree.

Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.

Sincerity doesn't mean anything. A person can be sincere and be more destructive than a person who is insincere.