Quotes About Impact

Shooter's absence is more powerful than Benji's presence.

Phones," he says to Andrea. "They'll be the death of civilization.

Weather is a physical manifestation of the earth's power.

If I had stayed on Nantucket in 1993 instead of going home…my sister's life, my friend Jake's life, and my friend Fray's life all would have been different.

Companies that pollute should be taxed so that a product's cost to society is reflected in the price of that product.

I love and always have loved policy issues and trying to have an impact on the issues that are out there. I cherish my years in government. I have loved my participation at CNN, at Current writing teaching. Where I will go next, I will have to sort out.

Siblings, more than parents, more than teachers and friends and lovers and pets, shape the people we are.

A matter, as the famous book intoned, of finding the shade of the parachute that best complemented you. But really: With no parachute at all you'd hit the pavement so hard it probably wouldn't even hurt, and you'd unleash a whole new color palate-bone, blood, muscle-in the process.

We want to leave a legacy with who we are and what we do. We want to grow a life that matters. We can. When we eat a diet of fruit and serve up that diet to those around us, we can grow a life that matters.

All buildings have a psychological as well as a purely visual effect on the landscape.

Who would think that a hurricane would be political?" she pointed out, speaking of Katrina, "until it was?" (Thompson 2012).

It's strange, isn't it? One small bit of information - a private relationship, something that happened a long time ago - and the whole story seems different.

This, she thought, was the sadness of teachers. Each semester is a contained little life - a relationship that begins, peaks, but always ends. They cycle in, cycle out, but you stay in one place. The teacher grows older, but the students never age. They are perpetually eighteen, twenty-one, lives always just on the cusp of beginning. You watch them walk off into the world, knowing you helped them become what they're becoming. You suffer the same ending again and again.

Let's not forget that in the throughput world the linkages are as important as the links. Which means that if we decided to do something in one link, we have to examine the ramifications on the other links.

Sugar historian Noel Deerr estimates that per capita sugar consumption was four pounds in 1700, eight pounds by 1729, twelve by 1789, the year of the French Revolution, and eighteen pounds by 1809.

It takes only one person to change a relationship.

What you believe will make a difference in the difference you make.

Life, struck sharp on death,Makes awful lightning.

After thousands of years, the ray-gun reached Earth. It fell from the sky like a meteor; it grew hot enough to glow, but it didn't burn up. The ray-gun fell at night during a blizzard. Traveling thousands of miles an hour, the ray-gun plunged deep into snow-covered woods. The snow melted so quickly that it burst into steam. The blizzard continued, unaffected. Some things can't be harmed, even by ray-guns.

Lindy-hop could go back to being just a social thing. But where she belonged in life After the Meteor, was here. Here, she made a difference. Sprained ankle and all.

His gratification was a chill stone on her breast.

Spring-loaded, ceramic bolts shot home, the impact shivering through the walls of the world.

Nothing makes a first impression like turning up shitfaced.

It stung that his words didn't mean more to me than they did.