Quotes About Impact

In life and art, there are distinctions to be made between what an act of cruelty consists of.

The United States influences government and life everywhere else.

Your life is your message.

God has enabled me to affect the life of the country since 1920 without the necessity of office.

I don't think you have to go out and become Secretary of State or be Bono but I think it's to let people know that whatever they do in their life that that's good.

Human releases of carbon dioxide are almost certainly happening faster than any natural carbon release since the beginning of life on Earth.

If I didn't positive have people influencing my life in a positive way, I don't know where I'd be right now. So if I can do that just in one person's life, it's all worth it to me.

I think everything you do in your life affects you creatively. Especially in music, if you do another thing musical.

I don't think his life has been in any way disfigured by the film. The film did disclose some difficult facts.

One life stamps and influences another, which in turn stamps and influences another, on and on, until the soul of human experience breathes on in generations we'll never meet.

Once again, her parents' problems had run through her life like a piece of heavy equipment, smashing everything in their way.

I never set out to write books for children. I don't have a feeling that I'm gonna save children or my life is devoted.

Apparently we're now in a state where most ads are full of people looking at us in a way that would heat us up down to our toes if it happened in real life, and we don't think anything of it.

I have been casting shadows all my life without caring about how deeply they stain my soul.

It is difficult to overstate the impact that this program had on children of the 1940s. This writer vividly remembers an episode when the Shadow tracked down a murdering scarecrow. When the killer's coat was ripped off, revealing nothing but straw, the implications were so terrifying that the young writer-to-be could not sleep in an unlighted room for weeks. Today it's the highest of all high camp, scaring neither the aging collector nor his jaded children.

Our deeds follow us, and what we have been makes us what we are.

It is hard to imagine how the psyche could generate so intense a level of emotion without some kind of exposure to an extraordinary experience as the template for that emotion.

Virtually every abductee receives information about the destruction of the earth's ecosystem and feels compelled to do something about

The experiential data, which, in the absence of more robust physical evidence, is the most important information that we have, suggests that abduction experiencers have been visited by some sort of "alien" intelligence which has impacted them physically and psychologically.

A war doesn't merely kill off a few thousand or a few hundred thousand young men. It kills off something in a people that can never be brought back. And if a people goes through enough wars, pretty soon all that's left is the brute, the creature that we—you and I and others like us—have brought up from the slime." Stoner

Una guerra no sólo mata a unos cuantos miles o a unos cuantos cientos de miles de jóvenes. Mata algo en la gente que no puede recuperarse nunca. Y si alguien pasa por suficientes guerras, pronto todo lo que queda es el bruto, la criatura que nosotros —usted y yo, y otros como nosotros— han sacado del fango».

doing less harm is no longer enough

We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives.

One person can make a difference, and everyone should try.