Famous Quotes & Sayings

You're going to have ups and downs, but it probably doesn't impact us long-term.

You're going to have to talk about big development impact fees. There's just no other way to pay for all of this.

You rarely ever see such a seismic impact as a result of a new policy. Essentially, you're moving people from war zones into real neighborhoods.

George H. W. Bush

The United States is strongly committed to the IPCC process of international cooperation on global climate change. We consider it vital that the community of nations be drawn together in an orderly, disciplined, rational way to review the history of our global environment, to assess the potential for future climate change, and to develop effective programs. The state of the science, the social and economic impacts, and the appropriate strategies all are crucial components to a global resolution. The stakes here are very high; the consequences, very significant.

Jean Baudrillard

We are no longer in a state of growth; we are in a state of excess. We are living in a society of excrescence. The boil is growing out of control, recklessly at cross purposes with itself, its impacts multiplying as the causes disintegrate.

Jay Inslee

We’re the first generation to feel the impact of climate change and the last generation that can do something about it.'

Milton Friedman

My monetary studies have led me to the conclusion that central banks could profitably be replaced by computers. Fortunately, for me personally, that conclusion has had no practical impact, else there would have been no Central Bank of Sweden to have established the award [Nobel Prize] I am honored to receive.

Julian Baggini

Right and wrong are not simply matters of evolutionary impacts and what is natural.

Keith Urban

At the end of the day, the Grammys are about recognizing genres that are making an impact.

Ice Cube

You wanna be remembered for making an impact and changing things. I guess for the good or for the bad, it don't matter. But I guess you just wanna be remembered when it's all said and done.

Ina May Gaskin

Whenever and however you give birth, your experience will impact your emotions, your mind, your body, and your spirit for the rest of your life.

J. Michael Straczynski

We are in a tech-heavy society, plunging headlong into an unknown future. Science fiction is what allows you to stand back and analyze the impact of that and put it in context of how it affects people.

J. Tillman

If my peers had a significant impact on my music, my music would probably be a lot more popular.

I don't think the Minutemen are having an impact on the site. Nationally I think they're having an impact on people's opinions about immigration, but I don't think they're having an impact locally.

Jim Connors

I don't think they realize the impact they have,

Hu Jintao

The monetary policy of the United States has a major impact on global liquidity and capital flows and therefore, the liquidity of the US dollar should be kept at a reasonable and stable level,

Hashim Thaci

Being listed by Facebook was like being recognized by a global economic superpower. It has enormous impact.

Harold Ramis

When you're a big enough part of the process that the Writers Guild gives you a lot of credit, that's a good thing. It tells me that I've had a significant impact on the film as a writer.

Iyanla Vanzant

I wasn't ready for fame and all that brings to your life. It was an amazing experience, but so overwhelming, because no one can tell you beforehand when it will happen or how it will impact you. So no one can tell you how to handle it, being stopped everywhere you go because people saw you on 'Oprah.' It took me over, and I wasn't ready.

Isaac Asimov

[Social] science fiction is that branch of literature which is concerned with the impact of scientific advance on human beings.

Patrick J. Kennedy

A staggering 63 percent of Americans say that addiction to alcohol or other drugs has had an impact on them at some point in their lives.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

If I were to point to the person who's having the greatest impact... I'd point to Elon Musk.

Patch Adams

Every human being has an impact on another.

Leon Panetta

The area of climate change has a dramatic impact on national security.

Nelson Mandela

You can never have an impact on society if you have not changed yourself.

Newt Gingrich

Stop costly new regulations that would increase unemployment, raise consumer prices, and weaken the nation's global competitiveness with virtually no impact on global temperatures.

Noam Chomsky

Resource extraction impacts a global environment that is increasingly at severe risk.

Noam Chomsky

Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.

Kathryn Bigelow

I like high impact movies.

Margaret Thatcher

The habit of ubiquitous interventionism, combining pinprick strikes by precision weapons with pious invocations of high principle, would lead us into endless difficulties. Interventions must be limited in number and overwhelming in their impact.

Margaret Chan

The possible impact of the virus [Zika] an extraordinary event and a public health threat to other parts of the world.

Larry Page

If you look at the people who have high impact, they have pretty general knowledge. They don't have a really narrowly focused education.

Larry Page

It really matters whether people are working on generating clean energy or improving transportation or making the Internet work better and all those things. And small groups of people can have a really huge impact.