Quotes About Impact

Women prefer to draw blood using words. It can cause just as much havoc, but it doesn't stain the carpet.

But a story never told is also a danger, particularly to the people in it.

I'd no particular ambitions beyond being either widely admired or stealthily influential—I was torn between the two.

A quote hung on the opposite wall: "Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

Finding the book was like kissing a lightning bolt.

Love is like lightning. You never see it coming. If it strikes you, you know it instantly and it will forever leave its mark.

When I get to the end of my life, I want to be able to look back and know that my being here made things better - Daphne

That's how tyranny succeeds. When folks think it won't affect them until eventually it does.

I fail to understand why gethes (Humans), talk about individuals versus society. They are the same thing. The action of every individual counts, and those individual acts of personal responsibility accumulate to create society. Snowflakes are equally blind to their role in causing avalanches.

But such is power, you get it, then you do things with it. And then you have to live with it.

The man hesitated and then reached across to shake Ordo's hand, surrendering soft pale civilian fingers to a black gauntlet. The look on his face said clearly that he hadn't expected to find flesh and blood inside the droid-like shell, or to retrieve his hand uncrushed afterward. "My pleasure, sir," Ordo said. It was unusually quiet in the EasyRide after that. At least the reality had registered on them.

She had always believed—vehemently, with great conviction—that the only way to change the world was to destroy it.

What a rapist takes from a woman is her future. The person she is going to become, who she is supposed to be, is gone. In many ways , it's worse than murder, because he has killed that potential person, eradicated that potential life, yet she still lives and breathes, and has to figure out another way to thrive....Or not, in some cases.... ....Sounds a lot like being shot in the head.

Dr. Monroe and I realized very gradually that drug addiction is a terminal disease. It is a cancer that eats families alive." She stood up and walked across the room to the grand piano, saying, "You get to a point where you look around and you ask yourself, 'What is this doing to the rest of my family? What harm am I doing to my other children by concentrating all of my energy on rescuing this one child who will not be saved?

Para conocer los efectos de largo alcance del sistema de género/sexo, primero se debe desmantelar la hipótesis fálica en relación con el inconsciente.

A person who has been up close when a gun is fired into another human being never mistakes the sound of a gunshot for something else.

Like my father, I have devoted my life to treating animals, but that was the first time I had ever made the connection between the horrible things people do to animals and the even more horrific things they do to other human beings. Here was how a chain ripped flesh. Here was the damage wrought by kicking feet and punching fists.

What a rapist takes from a woman is her future. The person she is going to become, who she is supposed to be, is gone. In many ways, it's worse than murder, because he has killed that potential person, eradicated that potential life, yet she still lives and breathes, and has to figure out another way to thrive.

A PARTICULARLY BEAUTIFUL WOMAN IS A SOURCE OF TERROR. —Carl Jung

Being dead is a bit like being stupid, isn't it? Easy for you, but hard for the people around you.

the Church should be the place where a word reverberates right into the world.

The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living.

Philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it.

The tradition of past generations weighs like the Alps on the brains of the living.