Quotes About Impact

prevents it is evil. And if we want to know if something is good or evil—something like war and killing and smuggling guns to mujaheddin guerrillas, for example—then we ask the questions: What if everyone did this thing? Would that help us, in this bit of the universe, to get there, or would it hold us back? And then we have a pretty good idea whether it's good or evil. What's more important, we know why it's good or evil.

Those words of his are mine forever now.

I sighed, sure in my own mind that the new war would change nothing: that wars can't really change things. It's peace that makes the deepest cuts, I thought.

thunder followed with deafening applause.

There is no such thing as a trivial choice. That is why so many powerful people try to influence all our choices

When we act, even with the best of intentions, when we interfere with the world, we always risk a new disaster that mightn't be of our making, but that wouldn't occur without our action. Some of the worst wrongs, Karla once said, were caused by people who tried to change things. I

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There was silence, where so much sound had screamed.

Quando agimos, mesmo com a melhor das intenções, quando interferimos com o mundo, arriscamos sempre um desastre, que poderá não sair da nossa mão, mas que não aconteceria sem a nossa intervenção.

Everything you ever sense, in touch or taste or sight or even thought, has an effect on you that's greater than zero.

Sometimes the worst thing you can do to a woman is to love her.

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His was the definition that stayed with me.

The elephant in the room is that we can shape behaviour more fluently than we can understand it.

When you get right down to it, every collection of letters is a magic spell, even it it's a moronic proclamation ... Words have their impact, girl. Mind your manners. I may not know how to fly but I know how to read, and that's almost the same thing.

I dabble in causes and effects.

The storm dropped a house on her head.

There's no question that the next generation of terrorists, rather than going for small, little dramas, will go for the big one. They now understand that the way to get the world's attention is not strapping bombs to themselves in a pizza parlour, but to do something so horrific it gets you into the Guinness Book of World Records for terrorism.

You play baseball. You play a lot of games. You win a lot of stuff. You win a World Series. But if that's all you've done, what have you got to show for it?

Once, as a 12 year-old boy, you've had the experience of seeing your team win the World Series, there is nothing that will ever replace that, or taint that.

The book that is the closest genetically to 'Goon Squad' is 'Look at Me.' It has the futuristic element - although, freakishly, almost every aspect I invented has come to pass in some way, including the terrorist who fantasies about blowing up the World Trade Centre. That was extremely uncomfortable. The book came out on the week of 9/11.

Americans did not suffer alone. World trade overall fell two-thirds in the first few years of the Depression.

Most novelists I know went through a period of intense self-examination and self-loathing after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. I certainly did.

The World Trade Center was the target for the world, and they hit the target.