Quotes About Impact

There are over seven billion of us today

Yes, I've found that stories reach the heart better than any facts or figures.

It is important to take action and realize that we can make a difference, and this will encourage others to take action, and then we realize we are not alone and our cumulative actions truly make an even greater difference. That is how we spread the light. And this, of course, makes us all ever more hopeful.

every single individual matters, has a role to play, and makes an impact on the planet—every

Life is so easy when you are young, she thinks. You can say and do almost anything, safe in the knowledge that an apology will make everything better. The older you get, the more impact those harmful words and deeds have. Once said, those words cannot be unspoken.

Similarly, a few thousand workers dribbled in among tens or hundreds of thousands of residents make no appreciable balance either in sum or at any particular spot of any significance

Ideas not only alter the world constantly, they make it constantly.

You can change your personal world. You do change it without knowing it.

I always feel a little guilty when I break bad news to someone, because that energy, of knowing something others don't, sort of puffs you up.

I've experienced having you in the house. It's like living with a loud motor running all the time. Up, down, into this room and that room, eating supper, jumping from the table, cursing all the time, yelling over the telephone about things, laughing, making deals all the time. You take up a lot of space and make a lot of noise." She

Those who are especially destructive they call 'wolves' or 'jackals,' but there is no wolf or jackal in the world who has been remotely as destructive as the average human.

This was the way it was going to be then, this road she was going to have to walk. She would always be thinking of him so that he would be beside her even when he wasn't there, making her joyous or miserable, but always, always controlling the colour of her days.

What makes a good book? Scholars and critics have been debating that question for decades. I like books that touch my head and my heart at the same time.

THERE ARE SOME MEN who enter a woman's life and screw it up forever. Joseph Morelli did this to me—not forever, but periodically.

There are some men who enter a woman's life and screw it up forever.

Morelli looked dazed. What good is a gun without bullets? It's good for scaring people. Or you can hit people with it. Or you can use it to break windows … or crack walnuts.

Some men enter a woman's life and screw it up forever.

Esistono alcuni uomini che entrano nella vita di una donna e la mandano all'aria per sempre. Joseph Morelli l'ha fatto a me - non per sempre, ma di tanto in tanto.

out I was going to crash the car into a telephone pole.

Well, she wasn't strong enough to avoid being the background of my art. Just the background. Her words just my canvas.

I saw that miracles were shocking, as overwhelming as disasters

Abdication, a great brass bell, solemn, resonant, deafening.

Her beauty was like the edge of a very sharp knife.

If you didn't have anything truly great to offer, something truly amazing, then you should just shut the fuck up.