Quotes About Impact

I think you impressed him with the sheer force of your stupidity.

cutting deeper than she had thought words could.

You broke the Madden brothers. I remember them, Joesph, and I remember what you did to them.

But for one final night, he's the father I remember best, the one in whose shadow I have -- for better or for worse -- become who I am.

I think of the note I found, of the press of his nibbed pen hard enough to send flecks of ink spattering as he wrote my name. Hard enough to dig through the page, maybe to scar the desk beneath. If that's what he did to the paper, I shudder to think what he wants to do to me.

He's supposed to look regal. I helped choose the clothes, helped make him this way, and yet the effect is not lost on me.

It doesn't feel good exactly, to be in danger, but it does feel good to be the cause of events rather than being swept along into them.

Strike a glass, and it will not endure an instant; simply do not strike it, and it will endure a thousand years. —G. K. CHESTERTON, ORTHODOXY

Things will be easier without me around. They'll see that." "They won't," I told him, trying to ignore the intense surge of envy that came with knowing he would be missed.

The Bomb gives me a quick grin.

He is a gravitational force, pulling everything toward him.

Memories were your most intimate legacy. But if those memories were compromised in some way, would your continued existence be compromised, too?

in the tiny 'unhistoric acts' of goodness which she performs within her limited circle a ripple of influence has been set in motion which may eventually lap the edge of the world.

You must learn to face the fact, always, that you choose to do what you do, and that everything you do affects not only you but others.

The women's movement completely changed attitudes all over the world in ways we'll never be able to count.

She was beginning to think that the death of somebody you loved was like throwing rocks in a pond. Piles and piles of rocks: the ripples kept on spreading, disrupting the smooth surface of your life long after you'd lost track of where, exactly, the rocks went into the water.

Maybe, no matter what right thing you tried to do, your action would be the wrong thing for somebody

Sweeter it [wrath] is by far than the honeycomb dripping with sweetness, and spreads through the hearts of men.

Even a fool learns something once it hits him.

Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large numbers.

Power does not consist in striking with force or with frequency, but in striking true.

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.

Mon père m'a donné un cœur, mais vous l'avez fait battre.

I left, stifling my generous impulse, for I have often observed that while a charitable act may do no harm to the benefactor, it is death to the one who receives it.