Quotes About Impact

I'd read somewhere that if you want to make people pay attention to what you're saying, you don't raise your voice but lower it: this is what really commands attention.

For most of us, the first experience of love, even if it doesn't work out—perhaps especially when it doesn't work out—promises that here is the thing that validates, that vindicates life. And though subsequent years might alter this view, until some of us give up on it altogether, when love first strikes, there's nothing like it, is there? Agreed?

First love fixes a life for ever: this much I have discovered over the years.

One small revenge might be to die and show no signs of having died.

El amor, por su propia naturaleza, era perturbador, cataclísmico; y, si no, no era amor.

How were we to know that our lives had in any case begun, that some advantage had already been gained, some damage already inflicted?

She was right off that scale, stranger; hurricane force nine was a gentle breeze where she came from.

Things, once gone, can't be put back; he knew that now. A punch, once delivered, can't be withdrawn. Words, once spoken, can't be unsaid. We may go on as if nothing has been lost, nothing done, nothing said; we may claim to forget it all; but our innermost core doesn't forget, because we have been changed for ever.

First love fixes a life for ever: this much I have discovered over the years. It may not outrank subsequent loves, but they will always be affected by its existence. It may serve as model, or as counterexample. It may overshadow subsequent loves; on the other hand, it can make them easier, better. Though sometimes, first love cauterizes the heart, and all any searcher will find thereafter is scar tissue.

Dingen die eenmaal weg zijn, kunnen niet teruggehaald worden, dat wist hij nu wel. Een klap, eenmaal uitgedeeld, kan niet worden ingetrokken. Woorden, eenmaal uitgesproken, kunnen niet onuitgesproken worden gemaakt. We mogen verdergaan alsof er niets verloren, niets gedaan, niets gezegd is, we mogen beweren het allemaal te vergeten, maar ons diepste wezen vergeet niet, omdat we voor altijd veranderd zijn.

One secret of the Christian religion's success was always to employ the best moviemakers

The government had been talking about sexually transmitted disease. But it was the same with words: they too could be sexually transmitted.

Why should a word in a recipe be less important than a word in a novel? One can lead to physical indigestion, the other to mental. I

First love fixes a life forever: this much I have discovered over the years. It may not outrank subsequent loves, but they will always be affected by its existence. It may serve as model, or as counterexample. It may overshadow subsequent loves; on the other hand, it can make them easier, better. Though sometimes, first love cauterises the heart, and all any searcher will find thereafter is scar tissue.

Why do we spend so much of our lives making blameless people unhappy?

Sometimes you meet someone and you know that your life will be different from then on.

I wouldn't mind that as my epitaph.

Because that's what happened to fury when tenderness was applied. It dissolved.

Fear did rather play havoc with one's self of time.

He was close enough now to see that her profile was designed to do dramatic things to hearts: stop them, steal them, break them.

If he'd been able to imagine it, perhaps he could have saved himself from what was to come. A grief that would reshape his life the way a tsunami reshaped a coastline.

sex always changed things between people, a bit the way an earthquake shifts a landscape.

He just hadn't expected to have his equilibrium roughly jostled by a pair of blue eyes this evening. He couldn't remember ever seeing eyes quite that color before. So achingly lovely they made him restless. He felt oddly as though he needed to do something about them.

Should I apologize for my species for trotting out the same compliment again and again? Isn't it better than having none at all? When you hear the same one again and again, it's difficult not to come to the conclusion that it's the only thing of note about one's person.