Quotes About Impact

Com'è facile cadere per un essere umano, non trovi? mormorò, e Masako le rivolse uno sguardo pieno di compassione. Sì. Poi è come scendere precipitosamente per una china con una bicicletta senza freni. Vuoi dire che nessuno riesce più a fermarti? Sì. A meno che non si vada a sbattere contro qualcosa

Yet all of these accumulated contributions paled before a larger one: he demonstrated how one could assert one's will on the world at the very time when everything seemed to be growing beyond control and beyond comprehension.

The good thing about being explosive is that no one can beat you.

Forget solar energy—if you could harness denial, it would power the world for generations.

You never realize the holes a person leaves behind until you fall into them.

Tools are neither demonic nor divine. It's all about who wields them.

Monster only had the power that you gave them

You can whisper, and people will still hear thunder.

In a population of hundreds of millions, such a small number of people is a mere drop in the bucket... but enough drops can make any bucket overflow

To name her is to sink her," he told me. "That which we name takes greater weight than the sea it displaces. Ask any shipwreck.

You don't just go to somebody and say, 'I'm a better person because you're in my head.

It's a big question. Where do you begin to change the world?

I mean, it's like we all get our raw materials from our families?but it's up to us whether we build bridges or bombs.

We must always be careful of the actions we take, for there are always unintended consequences. Sometimes they are serendipitous, other times they are appalling, but those consequences are always there. We must tread lightly in this world...until we are sure of foot.

One could say, Ayn, that he has cast himself as Atlas. Which means the slightest shrug can shake the world.

Today he failed to change the world. As for tomorrow, who can tell?

there are some who seek celebrity to change the world, and others who seek it to ensnare the world.

I believed, in my arrogance, that I had a keen grasp of the big picture that others lacked. But of course, I was just as limited as anyone else. When I gleaned the president and his cabinet, it shook the world – but the world was already shaking just fine without me.

I wish you could have felt that slap I wish you could feel the pain.

That which we name takes greater weight than the sea it displaces. Ask any shipwreck.

When you drop a pebble into a pond, ripples spread out, changing all the water in the pool. The ripples hit the shore and rebound, bumping into one another, breaking each other apart. In some small way, the pond is never the same again.

No mirrors in the real world had the ability to reach inside you the way these did. You could tell yourself that the mirrors were simply telling lies, but you'd be wrong. They took tiny truths, swelling them out of proportion?and the fact that there was a kernel of truth in what they reflected made the effect devastating.

Which is worse - to be despised, or to be ignored? — From the gleaning journal of H.S. Curie

Was I to blame for bringing Brew out of his shell and exposing him to all the toxic things the rest of us carry in our souls?