Quotes About Impact

All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

The position I took at the time was that we hadn't really examined any of the potential environmental consequences of introducing genetically modified organisms.

Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch.

It seems that boredom is one of the greatest discoveries of our time. If so, there's no question but that he must be considered a pioneer.

Saving the world happens one person at a time. Be at the front of the queue.

There is a pile of dead bodies behind the Mars Hill bus, and by God's grace, it'll be a mountain by the time we're done.

It's hard to make a cultural phenomenon every time.

Television is teaching all the time. Does more educating than the schools and all the institutions of higher learning.

If you make the movie from your heart and it stands over time, that's what matters to me.

Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity - the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires.

From one generation to the next, The Beatles will remain the most important rock band of all time.

I'm not doing my job if people are like, "What you do is fake." And literally people on the street are confused, generally, for the first time.

God has put you in this culture at this time for a reason.

The words that come out of our mouths do not vanish but are perpetually stored in infinite space, and they will come back to us in due time.

The mugger who is arrested is back on the street before the police officer, but the person mugged may not be back on the street for a long time, if ever.

The gospel is good news only if it arrives in time.

For the first time in the history of the world, every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from the moment of conception until death.

You make due with the time you have here. Hopefully when you pass on, somebody can look back and say, 'Wow, they made a difference in some kind of way.'

Most of us would like to end our lives feeling both that we had a good time and that we left the world a little better than we found it.

Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.

Criticism at the wrong time, even if it's legitimate criticism, can be seriously damaging and make the writer lose faith in what he's doing. It's the timing that's all-important.

It seems that every time mankind is given a lot of energy, we go out and wreck something with it.

You can get a few seasons out of power, even accomplish some things, but over time power can be very damaging to relationships.

Writing cant change the world overnight, but writing may have an enormous effect over time, over the long haul.