Quotes About Impact

We're going to wake up one morning and the world won't be the same. That morning could be any morning, I say. It could be climate breakdown. It could be nuclear. It could be Trump or Bolsonaro. It could be The Handmaid's Tale.

koca bir fili gökyüzüne sal?vermek bir kad?n?n omuzlar?na olmad?k sorumluluklar yükler.

got a sense early on that the power of a text is not time-bound. The words go on doing their work.

You can pick up a book but a book can throw you across the room. A book can move you from a comfortable armchair to a rocky place where the sea is. A book can separate you from your husband, your wife, your children, all that you are. It can heal you out of a lifetime of pain. Books are kinetic, and like all huge forces, need to be handled with care.

In all the ills that befall us, we are more concerned by the intention than the result. A tile that falls off a roof may injure us more seriously, but it will not wound us so deeply as a stone thrown deliberately by a malevolent hand. The blow may miss, but the intention always strikes home.

Mi talento consistía en saber decir a los hombres verdades útiles, pero duras, con bastante valor y energía;

Young teacher, pray consider this example, and remember that your lessons should always be in deeds rather than words, for children soon forget what they say or what is said to them, but not what they have done nor what has been done to them.

When anger is in control, you get unintended consequences.

You turned a crazy old guy into an enemy in less than two minutes. YOU did it. You've done it over and over, I've seen you: you approach people like an enemy and bam!, they turn into one, whether they were to begin with or now -Maddy

Writing it has been a way of coming to terms with the impact these years have had on my entire life.

Sometimes something catastrophic can occur in a split second that changes a person's life forever; other times one minor incident can lead to another and then another and another, eventually setting off just as big a change in a body's life.

Anyone who thinks he's too small to make a difference has never been bit by a mosquito.

Anyone who thinks he's too small to make a difference has never been bit by a mosquito, I'd tell people.

Elvis Presley's death was a turning point in news coverage;

Il n'y a de réalité que dans l'action. (There is no reality except in action.)

A man is involved in life, leaves his impress on it, and outside of that there is nothing.

I am going to smile, and my smile will sink down into your pupils, and heaven knows what it will become.

Everything happens to every man as though the whole human race had its eyes fixed upon what he is doing and regulated its conduct accordingly.

a man is more of a man because of what he does not say than what he does say.

I was moved no end by the work of LaVern Baker.

It often happens that, if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no further occasion for it.

The diiference is that in the private sector you work for yourself, and as Prime Minister I work for every single Haitian - inside Haiti and outside - and for all those who love Haiti as well.

Work needs to be a reflection of your social values. You are how you work!

To think about love and passion and political correctness all together, it doesn't work. Art has to go way past the political to be effective.