Quotes About Impact

If you wish your audience to cry, you must shed tears yourself, but if you wish to make them laugh you must contrive to look as serious as a judge.

If you have not done things worthy of being written about, at least write things worthy of being read.

Tante volte non ci rendiamo conto che le cose che facciamo per la prima volta sono punti di non ritorno. Nel bene e soprattutto nel male . Se sono sbagliate, nessuno ce le restituirà mai più.

Chi non ha i nomi per la sofferenza la agisce, la esprime volgendola in violenza, con conseguenze spesso tragiche.

Le parole sono anche atti, dei quali è necessario fronteggiare le conseguenze.

We know a lot of ugly things happen in the world and we can't allow ourselves to get indignant about all of them. We have limited reserves of indignation. But when the events are so close, when they touch you personally, what must you do? It's one thing not being able to do anything – you know something isn't right, but you can't do anything about it – it's quite another when you have in your own hands the possibility of reacting in some way.

But everything is remembered by its moment of greatest intensity. Dying was hers.

It is amazing that something I did 23 years ago still has an audience that people respond to and I am touched and surprised that people are still very positive about.

Man is a complex being: he makes deserts bloom - and lakes die.

Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute.

I'm a jokester, so when I was joking on Twitter, it kinda rubbed people the wrong way. And I was like, I didn't make these up. I'm just letting you know they're there.

It was the reward of the loyal female disciples who had accompanied Jesus to the place of crucifixion and stayed with him through the horror of his execution, to be entrusted by him with the most powerful message that has ever impacted the world: 'He is risen.

People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.

The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.

The simplification of anything is always sensational.

Sometimes if you let people do things to you, you're really doing it to them.

Cultural patterns in the media mattered too.

Words can be as irrevocable as an action. They can cut as deeply as a surgeon's scalpel.

The dirt is coming for us all as we free-fall. This much I know: that eventually, we all have to start screaming well before we hit the ground, so the women below us will understand when to scatter, when to take cover, when it is safe to come back outside and try again to change the world. So that future generations will know, from the echo of our voices, never to stop watching the sky.

What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life?" Muriel Rukeyser wrote in 1968, the year of my birth. "The world would split open.

And yet. It is not easy, living in the shadow of someone's Tragic Illness, so that everything you do seems insubstantial by comparison. Other people in the world would have to agree that this is true.

It is not so much the grand dramas of our lives that transform us as it is the tiny one-acts we produce in between.

How lethal was it? It was twenty-five times more deadly than ordinary influenzas. This flu killed 2.5 percent of its victims. Normally, just one-tenth of 1 percent of people who get the flu die. And since a fifth of the world's population got the flu that year, including 28 percent of Americans, the number of deaths was stunning.

Connectors change the world. Everything is possible. If you're not having fun, get out.