Quotes About Impact

Mi chiedo se Averroè, Kant, Socrate, Newton, Voltaire avrebbero mai creduto che nel Ventesimo secolo la piaga delle città, l'avvelenatore dei polmoni, l'omicida di massa, l'oggetto di culto sarebbe diventato un carrello di lamiera con le ruote e che le persone avrebbero preferito morire schiantate al suo interno durante gli esodi di massa per i fine settimana, anzichè restarsene tranquillamente a casa.

we have wholly abandoned ourselves to the mercy of technological progress. The roles are now reversed: humanity becomes, for technology, a means, an instrument for achieving a goal unknown and unknowable.

The fate of a single person can mean many things, the fate of several hundred is hard to encompass; but the history of thousands, millions, means essentially nothing at all.

The lasting and ultimately most important reputation of a film is not based on reviews, but on what, if anything, people say about it over the years, and on how much affection for it they have.

The destruction of this universe would have no significance on a cosmic scale.

even a drop of happiness could color a whole well of misery.

Today will shape your tomorrow. Tomorrow you will remember yesterday.

Ho pensato: quando una donna ti fa cambiare vita è roba da ridere, ma quando ti fa cambiare la squadra di calcio del cuore, la situazione è seria.

Ci sono delle cose che sembrano cattive e invece sono buone. Si può tagliare un ramo per far star meglio l'albero, oppure per rovinarlo. C'è una pioggia che fa bene e una che fa marcire.

You have to do something. If you do something, you become somebody. Even a daffodil does something, has a profession. It gives off scent, professionally.

A study of what happened as various states adopted no-fault divorce laws in the 1970s and 1980s found that in the first five years following adoption, wives' suicide rates fell by 8 to 13 percent, and domestic violence rates within marriage dropped by 30 percent.

If it is hard to find a 'natural' parent-child relationship in this variety of family arrangements, it is also difficult to make pat historical judgments about what kind of family is best for children.

One study showed an increase of thirty points in IQ scores of orphaned children who were moved from a poor institution to a better one.

It's the thought that counts-quite literally. There's energy in doing and in intention, and it matters. It makes a difference.

He and Marcus sipped and a companionable silence fell. Marcus nodded at the pile of news sheets and asked if anything truly important had occurred; Thomas's reply—that while according to the pundits, the skies were close to falling, as they always were in the pundits' eyes, nothing had changed that might even remotely impact the lives of those in their small corner of the world—made Marcus grin.

Interaction modifies the world and this, in turn, modifies us and our understanding of the world.

We neither have to adopt the literal versions of rebirth presented by religious tradition nor fall into the extreme of regarding death as annihilation. Regardless of what we believe, our actions will reverberate beyond our deaths. Irrespective of our personal survival, the legacy of our thoughts, words, and deeeds will continue through the impressions we leave behind in the lives of those we have influenced or touched in any way.

Look, whatever hayseed laws you pass in Who-Knows-What - Hell-Knows-Where. Don't amount to a hill of beans back here, as your type might say.

The past is altered, constantly, by our actions in the present.

My God,' said Josh Morris, sounding aghast. 'What have we done?' And he laughed.

The movie itself was very interesting, but I didn't think it was very good because I didn't really feel different when it was over.

It was the look on her face when she said it. And how much she meant it. It suddenly made everything seem like it really was. I felt terrible. Just terrible.

Un abrazo, una sonrisa, una palabra amable: todos tienen un potencial de cambiar una vida por completo

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