Quotes About Impact

?nsan?n ya?ant?s?n? paralize eden ?eyin ad? atom bombas? atma tehdidi de?ildir. Ya?am?m?z? kanser eden ?eyin ad? cayd?rmad?r.

L'art ne meurt pas parce qu'il n'y en a plus ; il meurt parce qu'il y en a trop.

He who is affected by an insult is infected by it.

Si uno quiere descubrir cualidades realmente excepcionales en el carácter de un ser humano, debe tener el tiempo o la oportunidad de observar su comportamiento durante varios años. Si este comportamiento no es egoísta, si está presidido por una generosidad sin límites, si es tan obvio que no hay afán de recompensa, y además ha dejado una huella visible en la tierra, entonces no cabe equivocación posible.

The] reader is not primarily interested in plot. He is interested in what happens because he is interested in the character it happens to. No incident has any place in the story unless it has an emotional impact on the character--and on the reader. Newbery Acceptance Speech

On Central Park West, a woman searching for just the right superlative for the man who is guiding New York through the greatest disaster ever to hit an American city finally said, "He's not like a god; he is God." . . . He has achieved what political observers would have told you two weeks ago is impossible. He is not only respected, but revered. And not only revered

that which is subtle can be more powerful.

Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.

La función del escritor consiste en obrar de modo que nadie pueda ignorar el mundo y que nadie pueda ante el mundo decirse inocente

One does not always realize at the time what effect historical events have upon our lives.

Unhappily children do hurt flies

Why did you make me want to live? Why did you do that to me?

These people all fling themselves at me. Because I am uneasy and sad they all fling themselves at me larger than life. But I can put my arm up to avoid the impact and they slide gently to the ground. Individualists, completely wrapped up in themselves, thank God. It's the extrovert, prancing around, dying for a bit of fun - that's the person you've got to be wary of.

He says: 'it doesn't matter. What I know is that I could do this with you' — he makes a movement with his hands like a baker, kneading a loaf of bread — 'and afterwards you'd be different.

Sometimes, all it takes is one gesture, one word, to change the course of someone's life. Even if you know it won't last forever.

Dad used to say a story was worth writing if it made a difference to even one person. in Paper Daughter

I've turned myself inside out to try and avoid what happened today. You affect me in ways I can't quantify or contain. All I can measure is the effect, and the effect is that I am out of control.

your morse code interferes with my heart beat. I had a steady heart before you, I replied upon it, it had seen active service and grown strong. Now you alter its pace with your own rhythm you play upon me, drumming me taught.

I did upset the children. Not intentionally, but effectively.

The past is a grenade that explodes when thrown.

love smashes into your life like an ice floe, and even if your heart is built like the Titanic you go down

Even our best endeavors turn against us. A loom that can do the work of eight men should free eight men from servitude. Instead, seven skilled men are put out of work to starve with their families, and one skilled man because the unskilled minder of the mechanical loom. What is the point of progress if it benefits the few while the many suffer?

Donde naces — en lo que naces, el lugar, la historia del lugar, cómo esa historia se imbrica con la tuya— deja una impronta en quién eres, por mucho que digan los expertos en globalización.

Even being good has unintended consequences. You're only human, after all.