Quotes About Impact

When you see something, it can't be unseen. When you hear a sound, it can never be unheard. I know, deep down, that this evening I have learned something that can never be unlearned. And the part of my world that is altered will never be the same.

One thing of great importance can affect a small number of people. Equally so, a thing of little importance can affect a multitude. Either way, a happening — big or small — can affect an entire string of people. Occurences can join us all together.

Dad was more into last impressions than first ones, which makes his death all the more symbolic.

Most people in life don't have to actively do anything to change us, they simply need to be. I reacted to you. You affected me. You helped me.

When you see somwthing, it can't be unseen. When you hear a sound, it can't be unheard. I know, deep down, that this evening I have learned something that cam never be unlearned

In one second, almost two and a half million emails are sent, the universe expands fifteen kilometres and thirty stars explode, a honey bee can flap its wings two hundred times, the fastest snail travels 1.3 centimetres, objects can fall sixteen feet, and 'Will you marry me?' can change a life.

You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with

Los momentos son muy valiosos; a veces se prolongan y otra veces son fugaces, y sin embargo puede hacerse mucho en ellos; en un momento puedes cambiar una mente, puedes salvar una vida y puedes incluso enamorarte.

Everything comes at a cost to others, most of the time at a cost to ourselves.

I'm sure it's like you writing a story. If you don't care, how can the reader?

They say you're the average of the five people you spend the most time with, he says, glaring at me, nostrils flaring like a wolf. Doesn't say a lot about the company you keep, does it. That's one, he points in Paddy's direction. I wonder who the other four losers are in your life.

When you see something, it can't be unseen. When you hear a sound, it can't be unheard. I know, deep down, that this evening I have learned something that can never be unlearned

ONE THING OF GREAT IMPORTANCE can affect a small number of people. Equally so, a thing of little importance can affect a multitude.

Cuanto más personas te aman, más personas hay que pierden recuerdos de ti

The impotant thing is not what we look like but the role we play in our best friend's life

They say you're the average of the five people you spend the most time with

When something happens, it triggers something inside us that connects us to a situation, connects us to other people, lighting us up and linking us like little lights on a Christmas tree, twisted and turned but still connected on a wire. Some go out, others flicker, others burn strong and bright, yet we're all on the same line.

So you, me, Fergus, Lorcan, and Lennex are going to change the world, are we? Not the world. Just the country. And to change the country you only have to change a few minds.

I don't want to be one of those easily forgotten people, so important at the time, so special, so influential and so treasured, yet years later just a vague face and a distant memory.

that you are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.

The telegraph kept this all moving fast. The whole transaction between Wheeling and Washington took place in a matter of hours, and could have done so if the ends were San Francisco and Washington. So now, of course, a man could make a stupid decision much faster. So Hayes's natural caution made sense.

I think that most people go to bookshops and have no idea what they want to buy. Somehow the books sit there, almost magically willing people to pick them up. The right person for the right book. Its as though they know whose life they need to be a part of, how they can make a difference, how they can teach a lesson, put a smile on a face at just the right time.

Was her whole life going to be like this now, avoiding certain songs or music that reminded her of her mistakes? Billie Holiday made her think of Eric Dalton; Iron & Wine was Jeremiah; and if things didn't work out with Kara, she'd never be able to listen to Bob Dylan again. By the time she reached her twenties, she'd be a huge, lumbering mass of musical baggage.

if you're out to change the world, you're bound to make some people angry. That's OK as long as your intentions are right. Don't be a jerk about it, but don't tiptoe around always playing it conservative either.