Quotes About Impact

The world is a body common to all men, changes to it bring about a change in the souls of all men who are turned towards that part of it at that moment.

If another Messiah was born he could hardly to so much good as the printing-press.

Suicide is the dumbest possible way of getting revenge. Why is that? Because the people you want to strike back at are the very same folks who won't even remember you a week after you're gone, while the people you want to spare most -- the people who love you -- are the ones who will have to live with the pain of your suicide for the rest of their lives.

If you don't think women are explosive, drop one.

I have no opposition at all to technology. I think technology is a wonderful thing that has to be used thoughtfully, and we can't just assume that every bit of new technology improvesthe quality of life; it's really in how the technology is used. What I am very disturbed about is this trend of everything happening faster and faster and faster and there being more and more general noise in the world, and less and less time for quiet reflection on who we are, and where we're going.

It's not necessarily a large number of people that affect the culture. You don't count the number of influential voices, you weigh them. A hundred people can affect the culture.

I put it down like its too heavy.

Im the bomb like tickk. tick.

I know you prolly wish you never met me, but I just hope you never forget me.

He laughed. The laugh could strip the skin off an elephant in seconds.

Watch the death of your enemy if you can, for you have caused it. When you have killed, watch the consequences of your actions.

Concrete arteries brought prosperity, like the historical iron horses galloping from coast to coast over the graves of the indigenous, but they were also digestive pathways, and a whole lot of shit ran off them.

That reverberation for me is what is most important about literature

I'm usually better at protecting myself from this kind of thing." "From heartbreak?" "Yeah." My throat is closing. "I can usually get out of the way before it hits me straight on." "That's not really heartbreak then, is it?

I thought about words and how, if you put a few of them in the right order, a three-minute story about a girl and her dog can get people to forget all the ways you've disappointed them.

My mind has circled back again to that conversation with Helen on the steps of Schermerhorn about how each culture has a flavor. What she said that night comes back to me at least once a day. Have I ever said anything to anyone that has come back once a day for 8 years?

It is a subtle violence, the violence of absence.

How does a man in Mississippi in the 1920s create a character who feels more alive to a waitress in 1997, remembered with more tenderness, than most of the boys she's ever known? How do you create a character like that?

I said "Somebody should do something about that." Then I realized I am somebody.

I always wondered why somebody doesn't do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody.

I always wondered why somebody didn't do something about that. And then I realized I was somebody.

always wondered why somebody didn't do something about that. And then I realized I was somebody.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." —Dr. Seuss, The Lorax 1

What significant details do you remember about how you met your special animal? Why do you think this animal came into your life at the time he or she did?