Quotes About Impact

I wasn't expecting that. It hit me in a place I didn't know was there. All I could think of was one of those medical shows. They're operating on some poor slob, they accidentally nick an artery, and he starts gushing. 'We got a bleeder!' the surgeon yells, and everybody comes rushing to the operating table. Nobody was rushing to me, though.

It made me wonder how many important causes were crushed not by opposition, but by lukewarm support.

I must be doing something right if the crazies think I'm as powerful as the Antichrist.

And why? Because of words? Words don't hurt you. Which is one of the hugest criminal lies perpetrated by adults against children in this world. Because words hurt more than any physical pain.

Genius serves no one if it never makes it out of your head.

Supongo que el que lleva la antorcha es también el que proyecta la sombra más oscura

whoever holds the torch casts the darkest shadow.

His life did not so much flash before his eyes, as slap him in the face

If it was a time bomb, then what she had done that day was started the clock.

Everyone's going to remember where they were when the taps went dry, I think. Like when a president is assassinated.

The problem with setting out to change the world was that you were never the only one. It was an endless tug-of-war with powerful players pulling—not just against you, but in every direction—so that whatever you did, even if you made progress against all those vectors, at some point you were bound to go sideways.

Important work often loses the spotlight to self-important people.

The curb is the launching point for many a deed. To step off could be the start of a life-changing journey. On the other hand to push someone off could crush that person beneath the wheels of a truck.

No puedes dejar tu huella sin cribar unos cuantos egos por el camino

Language secretly pushes and prods every one of us in hundreds of directions we don't see, until the only way to be careful with your words is to never speak.

white Toyota crashed into a black Mercedes, for a moment blending into a blur

A scythe doesn't have to follow through on a threat for it to be effective.

I was on my bike and got hit by some damfoo' in a Mercedes.

We're roughage, Tyger said. If we don't cause a little intestinal distress, no one knows we're there.

it seems to me that these worlds we touch upon can get so dark, anything we can do to lighten them must be a good thing, right?

Words don't hurt you." Which is one of the hugest criminal lies perpetrated by adults against children in this world. Because

What about today? What choices are being made, what thins are being said by people in high places that might seem so unimportant now, but are laying the groundwork for truly horrible things tomorrow?

You could have killed that boy," his father had reprimanded. "And why? Because of words? Words don't hurt you." Which is one of the hugest criminal lies perpetrated by adults against children in this world. Because words hurt more than any physical pain. He would have gladly taken a concussion and a broken arm if he never had to be singled out as a storked child ever again.

If not me, who? Will the scythe who replaces me be as compassionate and fair? I can accept a world without me in it . . . but I can't bear the thought of other scythes gleaning in my absence.