Quotes About Impact

C?ci bun?tatea unui singur om este cu mult mai puternic? decât r?utatea miilor de oameni. R?ul piere în aceeaÅŸi clip? cu moartea celui care l-a s?vârÅŸit, binele continu? s?-ÅŸi reverse str?lucirea ÅŸi dup? dispariÅ£ia celui drept.

Television has a satanic influence.

As I teach, I project the condition of my soul onto my students, my subject, and our way of being together.

A hundred years from now they'll still be ploughing up skulls. And I seemed to be in that time and looking back. I think I saw our ghosts.

It's strange, isn't it? You go on and on, or I do rather, seeing God knows what horrors and learning not to care or anyway not to care more than you need to do the job, and then something happens that gets right under your skin.

Perhaps pain, even other people's pain, becomes a smell you carry round with you? A

Rape is a crime against sleep and memory; it's afterimage imprints itself like an irreversible negative from the camera obscura of dreams.

Violence send deep roots into the heart, it has no seasons, it is always ripe, evergreen.

A good movie had never once affected me in the same life-changing way a good book could. Books had the power to alter my view of the world forever. A great movie could change my perceptions for a day.

I have yet to meet an English teacher who assigned a book to damage a kid.

The choices I didn't make are almost as ruinous as the ones I did.

A nation of unhappy teachers makes for a sadder and more endangered America.

I still believe that they both loved us deeply, but, as with many parents, their love proved to be the most lethal thing about them.

She took my hand and squeezed it. "You sold yourself short. You could've been more than a teacher and a coach." I returned the squeeze and said, "Listen to me, Savannah. There's no word in the language I revere more than teacher. None. My heart sings when a kid refers to me as his teacher and it always has. I've honored myself and the entire family of man by becoming one.

?ia ir pamilau tas knygas ir autorius taip, kaip moka ir supranta tik ilgame?iai skaitytojai. Geras filmas n? sykio man?s nepaliet? ir nepakeit? taip, kaip gera knyga. Knygos geb?davo amžiams keisti mano poži?r? ? pasaul?. Geras filmas mano pasaulio suvokim? pakeisdavo dienai.

As a teacher, I had been a happy man. Now, I was only a diminished one.

They were remarkable in so many ways that the gifts they bestowed almost equaled the havoc they so thoughtlessly wreaked.

made her unapproachable, apart. She was one of those girls who pass through your life leaving secret wreckage, but no visible wake. You remember her, but for all the wrong reasons.

A net of words, he said at last, is more powerful than a net of rope.

Like water, tales find their own paths; they go where they are needed.

Patricia Brennan Demuth

One can be deeply influenced by people to whom one is utterly hostile

ideas generate action when they are believed regardless of whether they are true or not in our opinion

one blow in anger [would] kill, probably, a child from aged two to eight. Those over eight would take two blows to kill.