Quotes About Impact

We all worry about the population explosion, but we don't worry about it at the right time.

He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero.

Overconsumption is the mother of all environmental problems. For the first time in the history of capitalism, consumption itself has become controversial.

I'm a let you finish, but the French Revolution had the best severed heads of ALL TIME.

Considering the amount of information we're bombarded by, it's amazing if a song can transcend time.

The great crime of our time, says Vonnegut, was to do too much good secretly, too much harm openly.

The Grand Canyon is living evidence of the power of water over a period of time. The power may not manifest immediately. Water can be very powerful, like a tidal wave.

I suggest that what we want to do is not to leave to posterity a great institution, but to leave behind a great tradition of journalism ably practiced in our time.

Time is not a great artist but weakens all he touches.

We can create as magnificent an environment as we like, but unless we change the heart it's all a waste of time.

One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history.

Every time we choose courage, we make everyone around us a little better and the world a little braver. And our world could stand to be a little kinder and braver.

Length is usually intensity. Not time.

Nothing is more dangerous for society's future than having its young people grow old before their time.

The time that people aren't expecting what's going to happen, I find that's the best time to really cause the damage that needs to be done.

He who influences the thought of his times influences the times that follow.

I look back one more time. It's like a crater, a hole where something happened.

If I'm in something that I think is kinda good, it stays with me like a fever dream for a long time afterwards. I don't recall the finished product so much as the feeling of making it.

A famous name has this peculiarity that it becomes gradually smaller especially in natural sciences where each succeeding discovery invariably overshadows what precedes.

Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances.

Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.

Some are bound to die young. By dying young a person stays young in people's memory. If he burns brightly before he dies, his brightness shines for all time.

If I make a mark in time, I can't say the mark is mine.

That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.