Quotes About Impact

can send a black thread twisting through his mood for days

A child is born, and the world sets in upon it. Taking things from it, stuffing things into it. Each bite of food, each particle of light entering the eye—the body can never be pure. But this is what the

When lightning strikes the sea, why don't all the fish die?

this summer scientists announced that in the last 40 yrs humans have killed 60 percent of the wild mammals and fishes and birds on earth. Is that fun? Also in the past 30 yrs, we melted 95 percent of the oldest thickest ice in the arctic.

Reading about declining owl populations led him to deforestation which led to soil erosion which led to ocean pollution which led to coral bleaching, everything warming, melting, and dying faster than scientists predicted, every system on the planet connected by countless invisible threads to every other:

Quem sabia que o amor poderia matar?

a world warmer by two degrees centigrade, 150 million more people—most of them poor—will die from air pollution alone. Not violence, not floods, just inferior air.

Doors soar away from their frames. Bricks transmute into powder. Great distending clouds of chalk and earth and granite spout into the sky. All twelve bombers have already turned and climbed and realigned above the Channel before roof slates blown into the air finish falling into the streets.

We are a volley of bullets, we are cannonballs.

You'll die of old age, we'll die of climate change.

A way for a small thing to destroy a much larger thing.

Che cosa non ha fatto, la guerra, ai sognatori.

He sees enough in three weeks to provide ten lifetimes of nightmares.

but one of the dying's imperatives is to make the living see them. This is nobody's fault, but it is everybody's burden.

success is not about wealth or fame, it's about making a difference in other people's lives every single day of our lives

As if that were not enough, a gale came up in the afternoon, one of the fiercest in living memory

the consequence was unfortunate.

I think public service is a calling and you do it as long as the things that brought you into the office can continue getting you up in the morning and as long as there's still work to get done.

I wanna change the game in way where I'm not knocking nobody out of the way, not claiming to be the best at this or that, but just doing wonders with the gift I've been given.

Charles was very intent to use his years as Prince of Wales to make his mark while he still had freedom of maneuver that he wouldn't have as King. The first subject he really went for was architecture. It made an impact.

Sometimes it's the tiniest things that can mean the difference between life and death.

He hadn't done anything. He hadn't needed to. Just being there was enough.

It shouldn't be too hard to spot," Daniels said. "It's bloody huge. And if it goes bang, you'll hear it ten miles away.

You know, they say in America that the average child sees eight thousand murders before they leave elementary school. Makes you think, doesn't it.