Antarctica has this mythic weight. It resides in the collective unconscious of so many people, and it makes this huge impact, just like outer space. It’s like going to the moon. – Jon Krakauer
No matter how bad any situation, cynicism has no positive impact. Watching the news, you might notice that cynicism and victimhood often seem to go hand-in-hand, but not for veterans. – James Mattis
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
When I was fresh out of law school, I had a burning desire to do something important, to have an impact in some way, but I didn’t know what it was. – Jennifer Granholm
Trauma fractures comprehension as a pebble shatters a windshield. The wound at the site of impact spreads across the field of vision, obscuring reality and challenging belief. – Jane Leavy
Politicon should be applauded for recognizing the increasing impact of technology, not only on American social and economic systems but on the very structure of our system of politics. – John McAfee
Catcher in the Rye had a profound impact on me-the idea that we all have lots of dreams that are slowly being chipped away as we grow up. – Judd Nelson
Billy Graham is one of my great lifetime heroes. I think he epitomizes the essence of what a Christian leader should be. I have participated in some of his crusades a couple of times in Atlanta. I’ve seen the profound impact he’s had on me personally, and on other people who were not Christians and accepted Christ as Savior. – Jimmy Carter
Elizabeth Bishop in particular had a big impact on me personally as well as artistically. Her insistence on clarity is something I rate very highly. – Jonathan Galassi
We’ve seen how grassroots journalism by blogs has had an impact at various points politically, as ordinary people have amplified stories that were being ignored by the traditional press. – Jimmy Wales
The impact of low interest rates is broad and deep. Many Americans rely on interest income from their savings to help cover their cost of living. – John Delaney
I’m somebody who, as a child, had a lot of insecurity about stable housing, where I was going to be living, if I was going to have a roof over my head, all those types of things. And I know the impact it can have on you psychologically and emotionally. – Jewel
We call them impact songs, and people buy impact songs. But you just never know what those songs are going to be. One of those songs that really went through the roof for us was ‘Big Green Tractor,’ which I thought was kind of a fun little ditty song that I never in a million years thought would be as big as it was. But it was. – Jason Aldean
We expect all our businesses to have a positive impact on our top and bottom lines. Profitability is very important to us or we wouldn’t be in this business. – Jeff Bezos
If the September 11 terror attack is supposed to constitute a caesura in world history, it must be able to stand comparison to other events of world historical impact. – Jurgen Habermas
Some things never change – there will be another crisis, and its impact will be felt by the financial markets. – Jamie Dimon
If we want to talk about the movies that have made an impact in what I do in the action realm – Bruce Lee in ‘Enter the Dragon.’ I’ve watched that countless times. – Jason Statham
Traveling has a major impact on what I do, cause all over the world I’m meeting all kinds of people. And relationships is the second major impact that I have. I just enjoy the variety that the world has to offer. – Jason Mraz
While it is useful to rebut charges and get your arguments out in circulation, you have to understand that arguments and evidence have little impact on people as long as their feelings tilt them against you. – Jonathan Haidt
I wanted to be a writer that had an impact. I wanted, and still I say the same thing, I want to write books that change people’s lives, change how we think and live and read and write. I wanna write books that are read in 50 or 100 years. – James Frey
The Republican Party is terrific at determining how a program will impact the federal budget, but we’re not nearly as good as the Democrats in explaining to people how our agenda will directly benefit them and their families. – J. C. Watts
The science is clear that there is an increase in the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere. What is not clear from the science is how much of that increase is caused by human activity; and what also is not clear is what impact those increases have on the climatic cycle. – Jim Sensenbrenner
Weaknesses have a certain function in a poem… some strategy in order to pave the reader’s way to the impact of this or that line. – Joseph Brodsky
The core of what I do is solve problems, whether that’s in graphic engine flow or rockets. I like working on things that are going to have an impact one way or the other. – John Carmack
I don’t know exactly what is my impact, but I can say I am doing fashion my own way. – Jean Paul Gaultier
I’ve learned how much of an impact that music has on people. I get messages all the time from people telling me what my music means to them and what it has done to them. – Jason Derulo
A lot of Ivy League schools have presidents who are very politically active. And I don’t think it has an impact on whether a student chooses a school or a donor gives to a school. – Jerry Falwell, Jr.
Perhaps September 11 could be called the first historic world event in the strictest sense: the impact, the explosion, the slow collapse – a gruesome reality literally took place in front of a global public. – Jurgen Habermas
