Impact Quotes

If a bacterium is trying to infect you, it won't secrete alone, because your immune system will block it. Bacteria will hide until they can all act together and make an impact.

~ Bonnie Bassler

Fundamentally, if you look at where the environmental issues are coming from, it's all because of humans and our impact on the environment, so while it's true that one individual is not going to sufficiently fix the environment, it is a necessary thing.

~ David Filo

Threats that could wipe out the bulk of life on earth abound. Planetary catastrophe could come in the form of a killer asteroid impact, the eruption of massive supervolcanoes, a nearby gamma ray burst that sterilizes the earth, or by human-driven environmental collapse.

~ Ramez Naam

If people are prepared to eat locally and seasonally, then they probably do pretty well in terms of environmental impact.

~ Peter Singer

This is absolutely bizarre that we continue to subsidize highways beyond the gasoline tax, airlines, and we don't subsidize, we don't want to subsidize a national rail system that has environmental impact.

~ Joe Biden

China leads the world in energy consumption, carbon emissions, and the release of major air and water pollutants, and the environmental impact is felt both regionally and globally.

~ Ma Jun

Environmental protection doesn't happen in a vacuum. You can't separate the impact on the environment from the impact on our families and communities.

~ Jim Clyburn

Fossil fuels will run out not because of limited resources but because of the environmental impact. If I can solve that impact, I have basically increased the resource base by a vast amount.

~ Klaus Lackner

A social impact bond is a new way of bringing financing into social and environmental support issues.

~ Judith Rodin

The most important impact on society and the world is the cell phone. Cell phones have actually been one of the primary drivers in productivity improvements.

~ Fabrice Grinda

I think nowadays, women are breaking the borders or the boundaries and also trying to give a new interpretation in terms of impact you can have to the society.

~ Yang Lan

We knew that if the photos of CIA officers conducting authorized EIT (enhanced interrogation techniques) ever got out, the difference between a legal, authorized, necessary, and safe program and the mindless actions of some MPs (military police) would be buried by the impact of the images.

~ Jose Rodriguez

I started traveling by myself as early as 5 to see my dad. I'd go to Toronto or Los Angeles, depending on what show he was doing, but most often New York, and we would hang out, and he'd take me to museums and Broadway plays. The ones that had the biggest impact on me were the George C. Wolfe productions.

~ Mahershala Ali

I know that my dad not being in my life made a huge impact on me.

~ Christina Milian