Quotes About Impact

A few decades from now, the current laissez-faire attitudes to sugar - now present in 80 per cent of supermarket foods - may seems as reckless and strange as permitting cars without seatbelts or smoking on aeroplanes.

The power siblings have over our eating habits is no small thing. yet we hardly ever talk about these familial influences.

Technology is neither good nor bad; nor is it neutral." This is certainly true in the kitchen. Tools are not neutral objects. They change with changing social context. A mortar and pestle was a different thing for the Roman slave forced to pound up highly amalgamated mixtures for hours on end for his master's enjoyment than it is for me: a pleasing object with which I make pesto for fun, on a whim.

Prolonged chronic malnutrition affects children for the rest of their lives because it affects both brain development and growth.

Anything eaten just before a bout of stomach bug may be hated for life.

People of too much sentiment are like fountains, whose overflow keeps a disagreeable puddle about them.

Newspapers are to the body politic what arteries are to the human body, their function being to carry blood and sustenance and repair to every part of the body.

Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.

It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work, it usually takes a hundred years to get rid of it.

The great men of earth are the shadowy men, who, having lived and died, now live again and forever through their undying thoughts.

A man ought to carry himself in the world as an orange tree would if it could walk up and down in the garden--swinging perfume from every little censer it holds up to the air.

Many professed Christians are like railroad station houses, and the wicked are whirled indifferently by them, and go on their way forgetting them; whereas they should be like switches, taking sinners off one track, and putting them on to another.

The loveliest face in all the world will not please you if you see it suddenly eye to eye, at a distance of half an inch from your own.

A screen actor is compensated in the knowledge that millions will see his performance at one time, where only hundreds will see it on the stage.

I chose the San Francisco earthquake because it's very interesting- although maybe that isn't the word you'd have used if you'd actually been in San Francisco on April 18, 1906. You wouldn't have said, "Wow! This is an interesting earthquake!" while you were running for your life to get away from the collapsing buildings or fires that swept across the city afterward.

He blinked and then smiled at my attempt as a joke. My stomach twisted. Good grief. It was the first time he had smiled properly. I was lucky I was sitting down. The experience transformed his face and revealed a row of perfect white teeth. Those golden brown eyes glowed and a series of laughter lines creased his face. They were the sort of lines that did funny things to a woman's stomach, not to mention other places.

I don't knock films or television shows, but they nail you down to a kind of externality. Nothing is going to be communicated which demands a softer approach--or let's say a more insidious approach--into the soul.

We affect the future of those who come after us almost as much as we affect our own.

This book is dedicated to all the people who get up and do something about it, whatever "it" is and however small the thing it is they do.

Stop, police!' I shouted, on the basis that one of these days it was going to have the right effect.

says: it only becomes a social problem when the working man joins in.

Feeding the starving poor only increases their number.

If we make every attempt to increase out knowledge in order to use it for human good, it will make a difference in us and in our world.

Screw humanity. I don't give the whole stinking bunch of us more than a couple of generations and good riddance. The universe is better off without us.