Quotes About Impact

Niente è più forte di un'idea il cui tempo sia venuto.

You can't stop an idea whose time has come.

The spoken word being breath, the thrilling of minds is like the rustling of leaves.

Tudo o que tinha sido a sua vida desapareceu, incluindo o nome; deixou de ser Jean Valjean, para ser apenas o número 24601. O que aconteceu à sua irmã? O que aconteceu às sete crianças? Quem se preocupa com isso? O que é que acontece a um punhado de folhas de um arbusto esmagado pelos pés de quem passa?

Nothing else in the world…not all the armies…is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

Vietnam...war...it did something to us. Or maybe not. Maybe the bad seeds were always in me, and war gave them a dark place in which to grow.

She saw how death impacted people, saw the glazed look in their eyes, the way they shook their heads, the way their sentences broke in half as if they couldn't decide if silence or words would release them from sorrow.

A wrecked marriage scares everyone. It's like a rock tossed into a still blue pond; the ripples go on and on.

The most destructive forces on earth. Fear had turned her inside out, love had made her stupid.

It was true that sometimes the support of only one person could make a difference.

She hadn't known until now how love could erupt into existence like the big bang theory and change everything in you and everything in the world.

And what would she have to show for her life? How would her time on this earth be marked? Who would remember her, and for what?

I know what it is like; some images, once seen, can never be forgotten.

Five words to change a world, to dissolve the ground beneath a woman's feet. It was a tidal wave, that sentence, whooshing in without warning, undermining foundations, leaving homes crumbled in the aftermath.

I know I won't be able to stand on the edge of intimacy. Sooner or later, I will have to dive into those cold, deep waters, and there is no end to the ripples my entrance will make. I

One kiss can change a girl's world.

Saying these words aloud would change the children's lives.

Here and now, I can do something that will make a difference in someone's life, and perhaps that—the simple act of helping someone else—will help me in my own.

Sometimes a story sneaks up on you, hits you hard and dares you to look away. That was the case with The Nightingale. In

They were so...larger than life, these Yanks, with their ready smiles and booming voices. And their gratitude....She'd lost track of the times an American had hugged her so tightly she'd come off her feet.

world could tumble, change radically in two days, with just one less person living in it.

Words and ideas can be deadly. You be careful what you say and to whom, especially in this town.

it turned out that a parent's disapproval was a powerful, lingering voice that shaped and defined one's self-image.

hadn't known until right then how much difference a friend could make. How one person could lift your spirit just enough to keep you upright.