Quotes About Impact

We do not see the minds that we hurt when we publish falsehoods, but that does not mean we do no harm.

Life is political, not because the world cares about how you feel, but because the world reacts to what you do. The minor choices we make are themselves a kind of vote, making it more or less likely that free and fair elections will be held in the future.

Life is political, not because the world cares about how you feel, but because the world reacts to what you do. The minor choices we make are themselves a kind of vote, making it more or less likely that free and fair elections will be held in the future. In the politics of the everyday, our words and gestures, or their absence, count very much. A few extreme (and less extreme) examples from the twentieth century can show us how.

The man who runs naked across a football field certainly disrupts, but he does not change the rules of the game. The whole notion of disruption is adolescent: It assumes that after the teenagers make a mess, the adults will come and clean it up. But there are no adults. We own this mess. —

Life is political, not because the world cares about how you feel, but because the world reacts to what you do. The minor choices we make are themselves a kind of vote, making it more or less likely that free and fair elections will be held in the future. In the politics of the everyday, our words and gestures, or their absence, count very much.

In the politics of the every day, our words and gestures, or their absence, count very much.

Failure to act always brings consequences. But sometimes, those consequences can be turned to one's advantage.

Thrawn shrugged. "There are two ways to destroy a person, Jorj. Kill him, or ruin his reputation.

Deje palabras quien ama, que sin obras todas vuelan; porque palabras y plumas dicen que el viento las lleva.

When someone changes your world, that's when you know he's important to you.

A woman's mind is affected by the meanest gifts.

Without Ruth, there would be no record.

Weißt Du, Folco, es gibt Dinge, Ereignisse, Worte, die dich streifen, ohne dir etwas zu sagen. Später aber, in einer anderen Situation, kann genau das gleiche Wort womäglich dein ganzes Leben verändern. Aber wie unsere geliebten Inder sagen: ist der Schüler bereit, erscheint der Meister.

Ma mi chiedo se questo non sia il primo passo verso la modernizzazione che inevitabilmente nel giro di pochi anni, cura il tracoma ma porta anche un industriale di Hong Kong a installare quattro o cinque macchine da cucire in un androne de lMustang e a mettere quelle sorridenti donne, che adesso vanno al mercato, o lavano nel fiune, a cucire per otto ore al giorno le sue scarpe o le sue t.shirt

Gdy tonie Wenecja, ca?y ?wiat p?acze i protestuje. Gdy znika Pekin, nikt nie zwraca na to uwagi.

Just stories? Stories can build up an empire, or strike down a people. You can spell the most powerful spell, ease a friend's hurt, or break an enemy. Stories make you believe.

A piece of writing is a dangerous thing," he said. "It can change your life.

a true piece of writing is a dangerous thing. It can change your life.

Without pandering to your presumed desire to identify with the hero of a story, they made you feel that what mattered to the writer had consequence for you, too.

I don't think anyone in the media thinks strategically about society.

More and more he'd begun to recognize the position of importance his students were unconsciously forcing upon him - the ultimate leader of The Wave.

It was if The Wave had taken on a life of its own and now he and his students were literally riding it.

A mother provides nourishment for her child at every level, whether she is aware of it or not. Some of this food may be good and some not so good, but everything that she thinks, feels, says, and does affects her offspring as well as her.

To do what we are doing in this budget to our children, cutting their health care funds, decreasing opportunity, simply so we can pay for tax cuts and a war in Iraq is beyond belief, and we need to reverse it.