Community Impact Quotes

#1. If Bush wins, I'm going to leave the country and spend the rest of my life in France.

Pierre Salinger

#2. Because sugar is not arsenic, many graves are full.

Idries Shah

#3. There's going to be a lesbian Brokeback Mountain and it's going to star Beyonce and Eva Longoria,

Chris McDaniel

#4. You don't need sex to make love, but you need love to make sex.

M.F. Moonzajer

#5. I think people instinctively know that their job is to give service and that they are part of a community. It had a great impact on me when my father walked the picket lines and I walked with him during the civil rights movement.

Russell Simmons

#6. Hamdi Ulukaya and Chobani have made the decision to feed 250,000 victims of the Somali famine. Their compassion speaks for itself, and is a shining example of how the business community can have an enormous positive impact on the world.

Amanda Lindhout

#7. The bible does not say that a man's education makes room for him, but that his gifts does. Education is not the key to success, it doesn,t guarantee anything; it is your gift that is the key to success

Myles Munroe

#8. The literary critic, or the critic of any other specific form of artistic expression, may detach himself from the world for as long as the work of art he is contemplating appears to do the same.

Clive James

#9. If we can develop and design streets so that they are wonderful, fulfilling places to be - community-building places, attractive for all people - then we will have successfully designed about one-third of the city directly and will have had an immense impact on the rest.

Allan Jacobs

#10. I don't enjoy doing the daily stuff ... but I would love to do something like the series that I did on 'Change India.' That was not just news. The programme was based in public policy, so that kind of influences change.

Raghav Bahl

#11. Large-scale public projects require the agreement of large numbers of people.

Thom Mayne

#12. I've always thought about my legacy - more so, though, my impact off the field and how I'm helping my community and solidifying and strengthening the lives of others around me. And also, I just want to be a dominant football player, too. So it encompasses everything.

Larry Fitzgerald

#13. When the government undertakes or approves a major project such as a dam or highway project, it must make sure the project's impacts, environmental and otherwise, are considered. In many cases, NEPA gives the public its only opportunity to be heard about the project's impact on their community.

Frances Beinecke

#14. I think journalism is a great way to do public service, to have an impact on your community.

Bob Schieffer

#15. Churches must extend their influence beyond the lives of church members to impact the broader community that they serve.

Tony Evans

#16. There was a point of frustration, where I thought I should just take a film, even though I didn't want to. I was impatient with being at home. But I hung on to the approach I've always had, which is to wait for a project that I could contribute something unique to.

Peter Weir

#17. I emphasize the dual mission of the Life Cube Project: involving as many members of the community as possible; and encouraging people to write down their goals, ambitions and wishes. I hope that the concept has an impact on these students' lives - that would be my dream.

Scott Cohen

#18. In the real estate business you learn more about people, and you learn more about community issues, you learn more about life, you learn more about the impact of government, probably than any other profession that I know of.

Johnny Isakson

#19. I was brought here [New Orleans] for a reason. I feel like I can make a tremendous impact, not only with the team but in the community.

Drew Brees

#20. Deep Purple definitely belongs in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. 'Cause they had great songs, great musicianship, they had an impact, and they're a huge influence on the heavy metal community as a whole.

Kirk Hammett

#21. I grew up in a tradition where having ideas and contributing to the community and creating art that had an impact on the world mattered. That's part of the Jewish tradition.

Eve Ensler

#22. Yesterday I had a Shaker visitor, and today a Catholic; and the more I see and hear, the less do I care about church doctrines.

Maria Mitchell

#23. Instead of drifting along like a leaf in a river, understand who you are and how you come across to people and what kind of an impact you have on the people around you and the community around you and the world, so that when you go out, you can feel you have made a positive difference.

Jane Fonda

#24. A method involving apparent obscurity is surely justified when it is the clearest, the simplest, the only method possible of saying in full what the writer has to say

Richard Hughes

#25. (The city is being) destroyed by thugs who in a very senseless way are trying to tear down what so many have fought for, tearing down businesses, tearing down or destroying property, things that we know will impact our community for years.

Stephanie Rawlings-Blake

#26. The Soviet experience was much worse than experts in the West had thought. That discovery had a tremendous impact both on the intellectual community and on the public at large.

Milton Friedman

#27. I think it's important for people to be aware of the impact that climate change is having on this huge community of people.

Scarlett Johansson

#28. Originally, in the early eighties, the drug hypothesis was among the first which occurred to scientists.

Serge Lang

#29. I think the impacts of 9/11 on academic freedom vary greatly depending on locale and time (softening with the passage of time), and even within the same community, and likely within the same schools. This variability makes it difficult to offer generalized responses without accompanying caveats.

Richard A. Falk

#30. We must remain mindful of the potential impact of over-correcting the authorizations of the intelligence community.

James R. Clapper

#31. I repeat: there was no attraction for me in imitating human beings; I imitated them because I needed a way out, and for no other reason.

Franz Kafka

#32. I do a little fact checking now and then. Other than that its impact is simply that email has revolutionized communication for me, and my website has built up a community of readers, which is a lot of fun.

Lee Child

#33. We've seen the kind of social impact a professional sports team has on a city. A team brings high-profile role models into your community who are healthy and they're great images for the city to gravitate toward, especially for kids.

Mick Cornett

#34. I guess this is how love is when it comes undone. No matter how tight you knit the stitches, a sharp tug on a loose thread will transform your warm sweater into a mangled heap of yarn that you can't reuse or repair.

Tayari Jones

#35. If Iran does not change its policies, it won't be able to integrate into the international community and will become even more isolated than it is now, which likely will have a negative impact on the Iranian people.

Moshe Katsav

#36. Some of the world's biggest challenges can be solved by some of the world's most marginalized communities themselves. The moment you inject information, education, and an entrepreneurial spark in a community, it gets empowered enough to inspire, build, and uplift itself.

Sharad Vivek Sagar

#37. I'm confident that the commitment of the co-chairs of the Ferguson Commission - along with the work of other local leaders and the Missouri General Assembly - will have a very positive impact as this community works to move forward.

Roy Blunt

#38. As a global community, we are increasingly aware of the impact of our choices on others. We are more aware of our human connection and our responsibilities to one another.

Linda Fisher Thornton

#39. That's the great thing about plankton. It pretty much keeps to itself.

Gene Hackman

#40. My life's work is to help people step into their God-given abilities and make a positive difference in their community.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#41. We are the in midst of a bipartisan moment as it relates to criminal justice reform and dealing with mass incarceration in America which disproportionately impacts the African-American community.

Hakeem Jeffries

#42. Philip Greenspun had a huge impact on me. He was the first person I knew of that embraced online communities, created a real business around open source, gave back to the community through education, and inspired me to explore photography.

Matt Mullenweg

#43. Family and community seem to have more impact on our happiness than money and health. People

Yuval Noah Harari

#44. It takes more than a busy church, a friendly church, or even an evangelical church to impact a community for Christ. It must be a church ablaze, led by leaders who are ablaze for God.

Wesley L. Duewel