Quotes About Impact

Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.

If I love you, is that a fact or a weapon?

You don't believe the sky is falling until a chunk of it falls on you.

All it takes," said Crake, "is the elimination of one generation. One generation of anything. Beetles, trees, microbes, scientists, speakers of French, whatever. Break the link in time between one generation and the next, and it's game over forever.

It wasn't so easy though, ending the war. A war is a huge fire; the ashes from it drift far, and settle slowly.

When they're gone out of his head, these words, they'll be gone, everywhere, forever. As if they had never been.

I could see how you could do extreme things for the person you loved. Adam One said that when you loved a person, that love might not always get returned the way you wanted, but it was a good thing anyway because love went out all around you like an energy wave, and a creature you didn't know would be helped by it.

Children were vehicles for passing things along. These things could be kingdoms, rich wedding gifts, stories, grudges, blood feuds. Through children, alliances were forged; through children, wrongs were avenged. To have a child was to set loose a force in the world.

Publishing a book is like stuffing a note into a bottle and hurling it into the sea. Some bottles drown, some come safe to land, where the notes are read and then possibly cherished, or else misinterpreted, or else understood all too well by those who hate the message. You never know who your readers might be.

What you don't know won't hurt you. A dubious maxim: sometimes what you don't know can hurt you very much.

You don't believe the sky is falling until a chunk of it falls on you.

Things written down can cause a great deal of harm. All too often, people don't consider that.

Better never means better for everyone, he says. It always means worse, for some.

After we're gone the work of our knives will survive this.

Love was like a steamroller. There was no avoiding it, it went over you and you came out flat.

When you focus on details like this - close up, really clear, totally useless - you know you're in shock

The people in the chaos cannot learn. They cannot understand what they are doing to the sea and the sky and the plants and the animals. They cannot understand that they are killing them, and that they will end by killing themselves. And there are so many of them, and each one of them is doing part of the killing, whether they know it or not. And when

You can't make an omelette without breaking eggs, is what he says. We thought we could do better. Better? I say, in a small voice. How can he think this is better? Better never means better for everyone, he says. It always mean worse, for some.

But maybe he was destructive by nature since he messed up every girl he touched

Like the trains, she's never on time and always departing. Sympathy from strangers can be ruinous.

How potent was that word. With.

Change can be accommodated by any system depending on its rate, Crake used to say. Touch your head to a wall, nothing happens, but if the same head hits the wall at ninety miles an hour, it's red paint. We're in a speed tunnel, Jimmy. When the water's moving faster than the boat, you can't control a thing.

We thought we could do better. Better? I say, in a small voice. How can he think this is better? Better never means better for everyone, he says. It always means worse, for some.

The people in the chaos cannot learn. They cannot understand what they are doing to the sea and the sky and the plants and the animals. They cannot understand that they are killing them, and that they will end by killing themselves. And there are so many of them, and each one of them is doing part of the killing, whether they know it or not. And when you tell them to stop, they don't hear you.