Quotes About Impact

Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important.

Marriage had always been something like the swirling rumours of a distant war; now, suddenly, the cannons were at my doorstep.

You'll never change the world just by complaining.

If I can create some space that people haven't experienced before and if it stays with them or gives them a dream for the future, that's the kind of structure I seek to create.

What a curious power words have.

But I think we should speak about all the things that are happening around us. We are not evoking evil irresponsibly or in vain, for we have now become a part of it...

There is no limit to the good a man can do, if he doesn?t care who gets the credit.

art is worthless unless it plants a measure of splendor in people's hearts

Words, I think, are such unpredictable creatures. No gun, no sword, no army or king will ever be more powerful than a sentence. Swords may cut and kill, but words will stab and stay, burying themselves in our bones to become corpses we carry into the future, all the time digging and failing to rip their skeletons from our flesh.

His lips soften into a smile that cracks apart my spine. He repeats my name like the word amuses him. Entertains him. Delights him. In seventeen years no one has said my name like that

So you want to die honorably? You are being selfish. Each and every person you killed had his own life. Whether that life was blessed or not ... everyone is born into this world ... they grow up ... some people have family ... some are alone in this world ... some have young children ... some are engaged ... some have pets ...some people have high hopes and great dreams ... other have no ambition at all and you ended everything for them Takezo.

But the scientific importance of a change in knowledge of fact consists precisely in j its having consequences for a system of theory.

We're in an illusion about what our role is in world politics and foreign affairs, and our policies are killing and destroying and doing a lot of things that we are not aware of.

I think once you're in the public eye, whether you're a boss, a teacher or whatever you do, that you're automatically in the position of role model. You have people looking up to you, so whether you choose to accept it or not is a different question.

On the collective level, human passion, rightly directed, can change the world.

But maybe when you never say a thing, your thoughts spread like mould.

Det var en historie som knyttet meg til henne med både hjerte og sjel, og jeg kommer aldri til å glemme den. Den er faktisk så virkelig for meg at jeg kan se for meg alle deltakerne og rollene de spilte, som om de står på en scene.

Anybody can be a victim, and anybody can flog themselves. Big fucking deal. But you put one foot on a ladder and climb to the next rung. Then you've done something. Then you've made a difference. And then what happens matters. Otherwise, it's just old news, and nobody wants to hear about it.

Un enorme puño invisible sacudía el cielo. La camilla, las sillas, las repisas, los cascos de acero, los zapatos, la ropa, todo se destrozó, salió volando revuelto y con estruendo, para venir a caer al suelo encima de mí. De repente, un viento polvoroso me entró muy hondo por la nariz y me costó respirar. Al abrir los ojos de par en par, miré obviamente hacia la ventana. Afuera, todo se había oscurecido en un abrir y cerrar de ojos.

Pepper is small but not its zest

The wounds of fire would have gone with the time but not the wounds caused by words

Just how many ways it's possible to fuck up a child so badly that ten, twenty, forty years later they're still trying to make sense of it.

When you realize the awesome power of words, you can change lives.