Quotes About Impact

One choice is to assume the worst, and then you can be guaranteed that it'll happen. The other is to assume that there's some hope for change, in which case it's possible that you can help to effect change. So you've got two choices, one guarantees the worst will happen, the other leaves open the possibility that things might get better. Given those choices, a decent person doesn't hesitate.

The business of voting your conscience is: Do you really care just about how you feel? or, Do you care about what happens to the world? If you care about what you feel you don't have any conscience, you're not a moral agent at all, so stop talking about conscience, you don't have any.

Is what you think interesting enough to make the reader care? Are you saying something that no one has said? Above all, do you understand that you are not as important as what you're covering?

You know, everything adds up. It's what I keep saying in my books and in Cosmo. If you do every little thing you can do in your own modest position, one thing leads to another. So do it and be it and write the letters and make the phone calls and get on with it.

I think those who have impact and influence over us are often unaware.

Words have magic. Spells and curses. Some of them, the best of them, once said change everything.

Anyone that has character leaves a mark on another. Would you like to leave the world without making a ripple?

He had realised that most vital of humanities. he had touched lives. And he had raised three boys that no one had wanted into men.

If I can make you unhappy, then I can make you happy as well.

She stared at him. You'd be willing to change your life so dramatically? Ray and Stella Quinn changed my life.

It was a well-aimed arrow. Had anyone even noticed she was no longer at the library? All the people she'd worked with, worked for? All the patrons she'd helped? Had she been so replaceable that her absence hadn't caused a single ripple? Hadn't she mattered at all?

Estou a tentar pensar em qualquer coisa memorável, mas é difícil quando o sangue me saiu todo da cabeça. -Experimenta. -Uau.

Because he's not some perfect fantasy. He's flawed and you understand that. It means you've fallen for who he is, not who you want him to be." "I like who he is. And on the other side of it, he makes me laugh, and he's kind. The fact that he's reluctant about it only gives the kindness more impact. He can't be bothered to say what he doesn't mean, and that makes him honest.

Don't let anything stop you from going where you need to go, from doing what you need to do. Make your mark on the world, and make it deep so it lasts.

Women change things. She glanced up at him. Only women? People then. But women? They alter universe just by being women. For better or worse? Depends on the woman, doesn't it? She smiled. And the prize, or the man, she's set her sights on.

He didn't expect to find her. I didn't expect him to find her. She makes a difference, in him, in the book.

He was a hero, and never to be forgotten. And today, as he would want, as must be done, a new leader comes.

Oppenheimer was right: 'I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.

Children give a house its personality, you know, more than its decorating. They leave their mark on it.

You're the most elegant steamroller I've ever been flattened by.

Some people leave a legacy of goodness behind them.

De quantos clichés, pensou Malory, precisava um homem para atenuar o impacto de um soco?

It was like being rolled over by a steamroller made of flowers, Abigail thought. It didn't really hurt, it was all very pretty and sweet-smelling. But you were still flattened.

life's marked along the way, darlin', by the deeds we do, for good or ill. Those we leave behind judge those marks, and remember.