Quotes About Impact

We need to ask ourselves some tough questions: Have I failed to live as Jesus taught me to? How responsible am I for the negative perceptions many have of the church?

No revolution that has ever taken place in society can be compared to that which has been produced by the words of Jesus Christ

But the for serious offline impact of 09/11 was the continual contact, continuous contact, it encouraged. On 09/12 everyone went out and bought phones. The mobiles, the cells. Suddenly, to lose touch was to die, and the only prayer left for anyone who felt buried whether under information or debris was for a signal strong enough to let their last words outlive them on voicemail.

People, we're always reaching for these big things... you know? Big ideas... big moments... big lives. And all the while the little things we're ignoring are undoing us.

Knowledge has no significance [...] unless it is transformative.

If you can get by with quotes from The Godfather and nothing you say matters, that's pretty bleak, don't you think? Don't we want what we say to matter?

United States and Australia, use more per person, whereas others, like Japan and Britain, use less. Americans drive bigger cars than Japanese do, and drive more rather than take trains, and they live in bigger homes that are kept warmer in winter and cooler in summer. Americans consequently emit more carbon pollution than do people in more energy-efficient countries.

Two things that matter to me. Emotional resonance and rocket launchers.

The thing about changing the world... Once you do it, the world's all different.

Everything I do is going to contain the message that men who are going to be comfortable with powerful women are going to be more powerful men

It's not enough to bash in heads. You've got to bash in minds.

If nothing we do matters, then all that matters is what we do.

I don't think that I can change the world, I just want to punch it up a little.

Well, I guess I kinda worked it out. If there's no great glorious end to all this, if nothing we do matters... , then all that matters is what we do. 'Cause that's all there is. What we do. Now. Today.

1. Define a misbehavior 2. Explain the cause of the misbehavior 3. Discuss the negative effects of the misbehavior

She exists in me now, just as I will and already do within my grandchildren. No one ever truly dies. The desires of our hearts make a path. We create legacy with our thoughts and dreams. This legacy either will give those who follow us joy on their road or will give them sorrow.

We make ceremony with words even as our words can lead us to the hells of destruction.

Each collection of poetry makes a force field of energy.

Did you know, Marianne: how by breaking the code that day, you broke it forever? For us all?

the hopeful young author had no doubt that books might change the world.

It makes me angry sometimes, it's a visceral thing - how you come to despise your own words in your ears not because they aren't genuine, but because they are; because you've said them so many times, your 'principles', your 'ideals' - and so damned little in the world has changed because of them.

The power of a parent to wound, to kill. The power of a parent is terrible.

Near the point of impact, time accelerates to the speed of light.

No baby ever saved anybody's life that I ever heard