Quotes About Impact

A swan can be as fatal to the pilot as a rocket-propelled grenade.

When a suicide bomber activates his or her belt, his head is nearly always separated from the top of the torso: it is known to the police as the mushroom effect.

it seemed to me that he had learned not only to destroy what was left behind, but also to poison what was to come.

I had always hated Nixon, not just for obvious reasons, but it seemed to me that he had learned not only to destroy what was left behind, but also to poison what was to come.

To live on in the memory of others means that you do not die.

As the tissues of the body fester and rot under X rays, so under the sun fester and rot Anglo-Saxonism and Teutonism and Scandinavianism if left too long beneath its influence.

Una voz fuerte no puede competir con una voz clara, aunque esta sea un simple murmullo.

Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know more.

Ada yang mengukur hidup mereka dari hari dan tahun. Yang lain dengan denyut jantung, gairah, dan air mata. Tetapi ukuran sejati di bawah mentari adalah apa yang telah engkau lakukan dalam hidup ini untuk orang lain.

Do not worry people not knowing you but strive so that you may worth knowing

How much of an effect on history can an animal have? A big one. Look at Alexander the Great's horse Bucephalus, and "the little gentleman in the black fur coat" who'd killed King William the Third when his horse stepped in the mole's front door. And Richard the Third standing on the field at Bosworth and shouting, "My kingdom for a horse!

For want of a nail, the shoe was lost. For want of a shoe, the horse was lost. For want of a horse, the rider was lost.

It doesn't matter how strong your opinions are. If you don't use your power for positive change, you are, indeed, part of the problem.

It is personal. That's what an education does. It makes the world personal.

He'd half meant to speak but those eyes had altered the world forever in the space of a heartbeat.

Each memory recalled must do some violence to its origins.

A calamity can be erased by no amount of good. It can only be erased by a worse calamity.

When you're a kid you have these notions about how things are goin to be, Billy said. You get a little older and you pull back some on that. I think you just wind up tryin to minimize the pain. Anyway this country aint the same. Nor anything in it. The war changed everthing. I dont think people even know it yet.

He thought each memory recalled must do some violence to its origins.

When all trace of our existence is gone, for whom then will this be a tragedy?

They sell that shit to schoolkids. It's worse than that. How's that? Schoolkids buy it.

What was it you said? After the math comes the aftermath?

Pami?taj, ?e to, co wpuszczasz do g?owy, pozostaje w niej na zawsze.

Because beauty has power to call forth a grief that is beyond the reach of other tragedies. The loss of a great beauty can bring an entire nation to its knees. Nothing else can do that.