Quotes About Affecting The World

#1. The strong evidence is that we're running out of space. We're collectively affecting the world's climate. This is due to the still-growing human population and our increase in consumption.

John Sulston

#2. We are all affecting the world every moment, whether we mean to or not. Our actions and states of mind matter, because we are so deeply interconnected with one another.

Ram Dass

#3. I think every person has the ability to affect change ... through our every thought our every word, the way that we interact with other people. We are constantly affecting the world.

Adam Yauch

#4. Mychael said the rock's not affecting you, and from what I'm seeing I'm inclined to agree."
"I beg to differ."
"Feeling evil?" Justinius asked.
"No."
"Having an urge to overthrow governments, kill thousands?"
"No and no."
"Take over the world?"
"Too much work.

Lisa Shearin

#5. Let's start affecting our whole city, and maybe we can affect the whole nation, the whole world. I'd like to affect it with the fact that God is a good God and He's on your side and He's got a good plan for you and when you put your hand in His, great things can happen.

Joel Osteen

#6. You make choices that are good and sound, but the gods have other plans for you.

Lisa See

#7. At any moment, we are either giving humanity the gift of our clarity or our confusion. And that clarity or confusion is affecting the humanity around us, the world around us. It is manifesting. It is taking form.

Adyashanti

#8. I will describe the choices I made, continue to take responsibility for my decisions, and express my remorse to Judge Salas and the public. I am heartbroken that this is affecting my family - especially my four young daughters, who mean more to me than anything in the world.

Teresa Giudice

#9. Because, as even the world's clumsiest weaver can tell you, you can't pull one thread without affecting all the others.

Cameron Dokey

#10. Conservatism is affecting the way women perceive who they are in the world.

Cate Blanchett

#11. Neatness of phrase is so closely akin to wit that it is often accepted as its substitute.

Agnes Repplier

#12. This is a major strategic challenge affecting not only our military, but ultimately, America's leadership in the global world order, we are at a point where our national aspirations are at risk of exceeding our available resources.

Martin Dempsey

#13. A writer shouldn't be restricted to any single race, society or even country, he or she has to be for the entire world, and writers should try to write on global issues that are affecting peoples' life in a direct or indirect way.

Tim I. Gurung

#14. Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one's role in relation to all other beings. For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving, depriving.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

#15. During the lockout year, my focus was the basics, sharpening my moves, my fundamentals.

Brandon Jennings

#16. I think the hardest part of writing anything is getting exposition out easily, without hitting people over the head with it.

Jillian Bell

#17. The future doesn't belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave.

Ben Lerner

#18. Things happening around the world are affecting you and me.

Fareed Zakaria

#19. People become writers in the first place by those things that hurt you into art, as Yeats said it. Then they become separated from what started out affecting them. Journalism forces you to look at the world so you don't get cut off.

Pete Hamill

#20. Are we letting the world influence the church more than the church is affecting those in the world?

Betty S. Bender

#21. There's an entry point to any relationship.

Will.i.am

#22. I'm not worried about headlines affecting my family, especially my son. He knows who I am. Whatever these things he is reading, he has a different perspective than the rest of the world just as a lot of my friends do.

Kid Rock

#23. He was flabbergasted. That was the best word. His flabber had been thoroughly gasted.

Cora Carmack

#24. It's the failure to see this planet as a single entity that causes so much pain so many times. You cannot attack one part of the world without it affecting the whole earth, the whole body. Attacking other cultures, other nations, is a self-destructive act. It always comes back on you in some way.

Gorillaz

#25. Amebic dysentery is endemic throughout the world, affecting 17.6% of the population. In the US, it affects 13.6% ... No one..really knows the extent of the parasites and the diseases they cause.

Ruth Winter

#26. Of all preaching in the world, (that speaks not stark lies,) I hate that preaching which tendeth to make the hearers laugh, or to move their mind with tickling levity, and affect them as stage-players use to do, instead of affecting them with a holy reverence of the name of God.

Richard Baxter

#27. My decision isn't as important as the freedom to decide. And my income isn't as important as what I do to earn it.

Robin Sacredfire

#28. Take the limits off of yourself. You will never rise higher than your thinking. Create a great vision for your life.

Joel Osteen

#29. The true mission of feminism today is not to carp about the woes of affluent Western career women but to turn the spotlight on life-and-death issues affecting women in the Third World, particularly in rural areas where they have little protection against exploitation and injustice.

Camille Paglia

#30. For my own part, I commonly attend more to nature than to man, but any affecting human event may blind our eyes to natural objects. I was so absorbed in him as to be surprised whenever I detected the routine of the natural world surviving still, or met persons going about their affairs indifferent.

Henry David Thoreau

#31. Middle grade fiction, to me, is really about emergence of self. It's about expressing the idea that the world is going to start affecting you more, and your parents' influence is going to wane. Middle grade is when a lot of kids discover their passions - art, music, sports, what have you.

Greg Van Eekhout

#32. People do that on Facebook and it's the dumbest thing in the world. I don't care what your dinner looks like. Stop cluttering up the Internet with pictures of your dinner.

Seth MacFarlane

#33. Of all the preaching in the world, I hate that preaching which tends to make the hearers laugh, or to move their minds with tickling levity and affect them as stage plays used to, instead of affecting them with a holy reverence for the name of God.

Richard Baxter

#34. We are one, you and I. Brothers in hate, brothers in cunning, brothers in the spirit of vengeance.

Rick Yancey

#35. Preacher's kids need another consistent voice in their lives over the years.

Andy Stanley