Quotes About Impact

The problem isn't what to say about the incredible Ursula Le Guin, it's where to start.

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible." S. J. LEC

when we lose our commitment to accuracy, honesty, and justice, we lose our ability to make a difference, because we also lose our vision of what is possible. Harlan

He was a very nice person. History has no record of him. There is a moral in that, somewhere.

In allen Schichten war er bekannt, bis tief hinein in das Herz der Gesellschaft, aber die wirklich wichtigen Reaktionen wurden hoch oben und tief unten ausgelöst. Bei den Gewinnern und bei den Verlierern.

In the end, I've done more good than evil. I've saved more than I've harmed. You are a sum of your life, not just one part. ~Myron Bolitar~

Poetry, at the best, does us a kind of violence that prose fiction rarely attempts or accomplishes.

Like television, motion pictures, and computers, [Stephen] King has replaced reading...the triumph of the genial King is a large emblem of the failures of American education.

Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hands of another.

simply by the nature of the work, every lawyer gets at least one case in his lifetime that affects him personally. This one's mine, I guess.

It just shows you how poor that person is, it doesn't hurt you.

Nu ÅŸtiu cum, dar au f?cut-o. Au f?cut-o ÅŸi înainte, au f?cut-o ast?-sear? ÅŸi au s-o mai fac?, ÅŸi când fac una ca asta...se pare c? numai copiii plâng.

Every lawyer gets at least one case in his lifetime that affects him personally.

Uncle Jimmy present or Uncle Jimmy absent made not much difference, he never said anything.

I hope the world will little note nor long remember what you are saying here.

Tribunalul reprezinta tinutul... in aceeasi masura ca si ceaiurile misionarilor.

passionless good ideas are not only useless, they are a liability.

All Sam Peckinpah ever did in his movies was show that getting hit on the chin doesn't sound like [makes a small popping noise]. When one grown man hits another grown man in the face, it splatters like an overripe tomato. And it's not fun getting killed. It's bloody and gory and altogether unpleasant. That's all Sam Peckinpah ever did.

the untold billions who led the bad life as mankind slowly built up the good life for you to lead. Do you ever think of all the people who suffered and died in misery and superstition while civilization was clicking forward one more slow notch?

People leave strange little memories of themselves behind when they die.

Did you ever see anyone shot by a gun without bleeding?

Does G get angry because it follows F in the alphabet? Does page 68 in a book start a revolution because it follows 67?

He appeared before me and departed. We were not able to speak to or touch each other. But in that short interval, he transformed many things inside me. He literally stirred my mind and body the way a spoon stirs a cup of cocoa, down to the depths of my internal organs and my womb.

You throw a stone into a deep pond. Splash. The sound is big, and it reverberates throughout the surrounding area. What comes out of the pond after that? All we can do is stare at the pond, holding our breath.