Quotes About Impact

But I am now aware that these words will reach an audience

But as far as, for I think it will be amazing you know where I find myself years from now because of this film. It's just amazing, I think everybody's going to kind of know this film and because of it, me. So I you know it's crazy.

Words are where most change begins.

I'm convinced that responsibility is some kind of psychological disease.

Vin: I don't know -- and it's all your fault, you know. I used to understand everything. Now it's all confused. Kelsier: Yes, we've messed you up right properly.

Can you feel it? Something just changed. I believe that's the sound the world makes when it pisses itself.

Books have great value, actions have greater value.

You want to change the world, Shallan. That's well and good. But be careful. The world predates you. She has seniority.

Now you may have gotten the impression that there are absolutely no uses for Librarians. I'm sorry if I implied that. Librarians are very useful. For instance, they are useful if you are fishing for sharks and need some bait. They're also useful for throwing out windows to test the effects of concrete impact on horn-rimmed glasses. If you have enough Librarians, you can build bridges out of them. (Just like witches.) And, unfortunately, they are also useful for organizing things.

Go," Marasi said. "Do what you do best, Waxillium Ladrian." "Which is what? Break things?" "Break things," Marasi said, "with style.

Even small actions have consequences. And while we can often choose our actions, we rarely get to choose our consequences.

Every moment in our lives seems trivial," Zahel said. "Most are forgotten while some, equally humble, become the points upon which history pivots.

To be of use in even a single burst of flame and sound is worth more than a lifetime of achieving nothing.

You are not worse for your association with the world, but it is better for its association with you.

You make it sound like having the power to change the world is a bad thing." "Bad? No. Abhorrent, depressing, ghastly. Having power is a terrible burden, the worst thing imaginable, except for every other alternative.

Act like you were important, act like you were angry, and people just wanted to get out of your way.

Our words, like our hearts, are weapons still hot from the forging, beating themselves into new shapes each time we swing them.

Jasnah didn't want to merely prove her points. She wanted to drive them right into your skull, with a flourish and a pithy epigram.

Unlike a sword, scorn has only the bite you give it.

you can't avoid politics by pretending you're not part of them.

A little fear, a little history, those things don't mean anything. Only what we do means anything.

You are worse for your association with the world, but it is better for its association with you.

It was a fun job, wasn't it? When you remember me, please remember that.

The comment quieted the room, like a sudden shout of "Who wants extra bacon?" at a bar mitzvah.