Quotes About Impact

Grace says, We all die. She says, The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.

What you don't learn in art theory is how too big a compliment can hurt more than a slap to the face.

The only biodiversity we're going to have left is Coke versus Pepsi. We're landscaping the whole world one stupid mistake at a time.

It only takes one mistake,' the Dan Banyan guy says, 'and nothing else you ever do will matter.' With his empty hand, he takes one of my hands. His fingers feel hot, fever-hot, and pounding with his heartbeats. He turns my hand palm-up saying, 'No matter how hard you work or how smart you become, you'll always be known for that one poor choice.' He sets the blue pill on my palm, saying, 'Do that one wrong thing- and you'll be dead for the rest of your life.

WHat I learned is, it's never too late to save anybody. And it's always too late. And what are the chances you'll make any difference?

Where would Jesus be if no one ever wrote the gospels?

Parents, they'll screw you up every time.

Unless we have that moment of chaos, followed by the emotional release of realization, nothing will be remembered.

If you can change the way people think, she said.The way they see themselves.The way they see the world.If you do that, you can change the way people live their lives.And that's the only lasting thing you can create.

Stick and stones may break your bones and words can kill you too

We, each of us, can take control of the world.

Yeah, parents will always fuck you up.

do not write to be liked. Write to be remembered.

Evie says that beautiful people should never date each other. Together, they just don't generate enough attention. Evie says there's a whole shift in the beauty standard when they're together. You can feel this, Evie says. When both of you are beautiful, neither of you is beautiful. Together, as a couple, you're less than the sum of your parts.

There's the obituary to look for the next week, six column inches about nothing that really mattered

When the two of you talked, you were building something, and afterward you were both different than before.

If this might be the last time they saw you, they really saw you. Everything else about their checkbook balance and radio songs and messy hair went out the window.

You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways

The way she looks right now, you have to think about multiple car pile-ups. Imagine two bloodmobiles coliding head on. The way she looks, you'd have to think of mass graves to even log thirty seconds in the saddle. Think of spoiled cat food and ulcerated cankers and expired donor organs. That's how beautiful she looks.

A veces la muerte de una sola persona puede justificar la muerte de una cultura entera.

if people thought you were dying, they gave you their full attention. If this might be the last time they saw you, they really saw you. Everything else about their checkbook balance and radio songs and messy hair went out the window. You had their full attention. People listened instead of just waiting for their turn to speak. And when they spoke, they weren't telling you a story. When the two of you talked, you were building something, and afterward you were both different than before.

If you can change the way people think, she said. The way they see themselves. The way they see the world. If you do that, you can change the way people live their lives. And that's the only lasting thing you can create.

You never feel as alive as when you make somebody else dead.

My job," Mitzi said, "is to make everyone in the whole world scream at the exact same time.