Quotes About Impact

Thus violent deeds live after men upon the earth, and traces of war and bloodshed will survive in mournful shapes long after those who worked the desolation are but atoms of earth themselves.

Every year the international finance system kills more people than the Second World War. But at least Hitler was mad, you know.

When I was in the war, I was lucky that I was in a plane and never saw the carnage close-up.

Sometimes you must seem to hurt something in order to do good for it.

She slammed down the phone. The sharp bang shattered my heart like a bottle hitting the sidewalk

He smiled. "You are one beautiful bitch." "Thank you.

It's not your fault that you're slow. I'm sure it's hard to recover from being hit on the head with a silver spoon.

ne možeš u?initi ništa zna?ajno u svijetu ukoliko trošiš vrijeme na kritiziranje drugih zato što ne izgledaju ili se ne ponašaju onako kako ti misliš da bi trebali.

any good deed, no matter how small, could keep multiplying until it had changed the whole world forever for the better.

Stories are thick with meanings. You can fall in love with a story for what you think it says, but you can't know for certain where it will lead your listeners. If you're telling a tale to teach children to be generous, they may fix instead on the part where your hero hides in an olive jar, then spend the whole next day fighting about who gets to try it first. People take what they need from the stories they hear. The tale is often wiser than the teller.

An unpredictable parent is a fearsome god in the eyes of a child.

There is no degree of human suffering which in and of itself is going to bring about change. Only organisation can change things.

Be the most you can be, so life will be more because you were. Susan Glaspell, author

How many small decisions accumulate to form a habit? What a multitude of decisions, made by others, in other times, must shape our lives now.

The cameras and the studio may not be following me, but my past definitely is.

You're not someone I could forget," he murmured.

What most people would consider a mundane job—same streets, same view, same stops and starts—I enlivened by getting to know my regulars. In fact, I did more than get to know them, more than transport them from A to B. I helped them. I changed lives. They

How well your readers connect with and care about this character determines the success of a story. In other words, if they've emotionally gone on the journey with the character, suffered with and experienced the joys and triumphs of the character, as well as learned the lessons and truths, only then have you, the author, done your job.

Yeah, seeing her unsettled him, but it was her words that nearly took him apart. Because sometime after his heart started beating again, after he'd grabbed ahold of his emotions, she'd become the woman that, once upon a time, he'd fallen in love with.

You might have healed from the event, but you continue to bleed from the impact.

a happy life is not made up of what you have dreamed of, chased after, and achieved, but rather whom you poured your life into, who poured their life into yours, and the difference you've made in the lives of others.

a happy life is not made up of what you have dreamed of, chased after, and achieved, but rather whom you poured your life into, who poured their life into yours, and the difference you've made in the lives of others. Most of the dreams we pursue don't have intrinsic worth, but people always do.

But you can't get back the day you make a decision that changes everything.

The words fell out of my mouth like slivers of shattered glass.