Quotes About Impact

Gossip is mischievous, light and easy to raise, but grievous to bear and hard to get rid of. No gossip ever dies away entirely, if many people voice it: it too is a kind of divinity." Hesiod, Works and Days

devastating effects." This personal revelation from a man he had just met made

You never know when something is going to happen to change your life. You expect it to arrive with fanfare, like a wedding or a birth, but instead it comes in the most ordinary of circumstances. The

Don't be afraid to make a poem raw as sandpaper. And even though a million protests, twice as many feet, couldn't stop a war, get out there with your small voice, your light tread.

We don't come from places. We come from time. From traumatic moments that cannot be undone.

Do . . . you . . . speak . . . English?" she asks. NO, BUT I SPEAK CUNT.

now her dictionary is marked with all kinds of words that came out of my mouth and into her world. #7

That's what we do when we read something that moves us, alters us, astounds us. Whether it's good or bad, we show it to someone we love, because when you read something, you want someone you love to read it, too.

I tie a plastic bag around his head. I go to the bathroom and write down the names of all of his skin care products. Everyone will remember him for his stupid fucking talk show but I will remember him as the man who made me realize that I need to take better care of my skin.

Power is a dangerous thing,' said Ben Aruva in a quiet voice. 'Any kind of power. If you have it, be careful to use it for good.

He tried to be a good man, to do the right things, to make the world a little better than it had been before he had put his stamp upon it. You could be generous with the love you gave, with the care you took with others. You could follow all the command- ments that made sense to you and still the world could sideswipe you. There was no cause and effect. There was no karma. The truth was that he wasn't so sure he understood how the world worked anymore.

Overall, becoming a carbon-neutral country would involve changes in our behaviour, but these are modest compared with the changes that will be forced upon us if we do nothing.

Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau once said: "Living next to the Americans is like sleeping next to an elephant—no matter how friendly and even-tempered the elephant, one is affected by every twitch!

I would really be doing something right, perhaps even important, if I was bringing even a little more compassion into the world through Big Bird.

Our oneness...leaves DNA evidence that Jesus has been here.

While society sometimes carelessly refers to sociopathic, narcissistic behavior as "shameless," people with sociopathic narcissism are so burdened by neurotic shame that they can't empathically feel their impact on other people, or even feel their own authentic desire for connection.

People think that what happens to someone else has nothing to do with them. They think that what happens in one place doesn't matter any place else.

Miss Edith Clay brightened the room with her presence. Just from walking through the door, she'd made the room a happier place. This was true despite his having spent the last several months assuring himself his recollection of her had to be incorrect. His recollection was not incorrect. It was appallingly accurate.

Her smile hollowed out his chest. She'd changed since last he saw her. She was brighter. More vibrant. Happiness suited her.

She laughed, and the sound pierced his heart.

He had no idea there even was a before until he crashed hard into the after.

Read my story, walk through these woods, and when you get to the other side, you may not even realize that you're carrying something out that you didn't have when you went in. A little tick of an idea, clinging to your scalp or hidden in a fold of skin. Somewhere out of sight. By the time you discover it, it's already begun to prey on you; perhaps it's merely gouged your flesh, or perhaps it's already begun to nibble away at your central nervous system.

Every word a woman writes changes the story of the world, revises the official version.

Actions lie louder than words.