Quotes About Impact

Forced to weigh your words, you find out which are the styrofoam and which are the heavy gold. Severe cutting intensifies your style, forcing you both to crowd and to leap.

It is not just the information that is important. How it is presented is equally important.

If I had children, I would be very selfish. I wouldn't be out doing things. But by not having kids, it makes me freer to travel the world and talk about things I feel are important.

I'd heard veteran cops talk about life altering cases. Cases that haunt a cop long after they're closed. I've had cases like that myself. Cases that fundamentally changed me. Changed the way I view people. The way I perceive my job as a cop. The way I see myself. Standing there with the stench of blood filling my nostrils, I know this is going to be one of those cases.

Like billiard balls colliding our courses were altered.

It's easy to make a buck; it's tough to make a difference."4

Every life you touch, every difference you make, every prayer you pray makes the world a better place.

Peace is not passive; it's powerful.

No person, whether she is a scientist or a cook, can find success if she doesn't first believe that she holds power in her hands— not to use over people, but to use for the good of another.

the Court occupies a place in the public imagination.

the past/that has a place for us will know us by our scattered wake." A History Play, Waterborne

I was always trying to make up for my size, to compensate. So to get people to take you seriously, you have to come at things with a great deal of strength. You have to emphasize that the way you are is unusual. That you don't come along every day.

Il y a des écrivains qui réunissent cent mille personnes à leur enterrement et il y a ceux qui n'ont jamais suscité la ferveur que d'une poignée de passeurs, confrérie clandestine dont les membres se transmettent le flambeau d'une génération à l'autre. (p. 143)

Everyone that watches "Deep Throat" is watching me being raped.

In both London and Washington, and at the UN in New York, there were politicians and civil servants who took decisions that cost the lives of an incalculable number of people. They should bear full responsibility for those decisions.

How many new girls will it take to change the world?

The word may be mightier than the sword, but except for the s they are pretty much the same. Both are used to kill--and to save.

absolute usefulness to those who wielded it as an instrument. It told us things already known, suggested things that would not work, and made careers for people who already had jobs. 'We

2011, writing in the Yale Alumni Magazine, Ron Howell, Murphy's classmate, noted that forty-one years after their graduation, nine of thirty-two Black men who entered Yale in 1966 were dead, a death rate three times higher than that of the class as a whole. Williams offered a sliver of hope and a broad set of suggestions to attack the problem. Even as he spoke of that sliver, I couldn't shake the thought

Black and poor communities shoulder a disproportionate burden of the nation's pollution, which has been well documented for decades, thanks to a pileup of evidence that scientists and policy makers began gathering beginning in the 1970s.

To put it in the plainest terms, from birth to death the impact on the bodies of Black Americans of living in communities that have been harmed by long-standing racial discrimination, of a deeply rooted and dangerous racial bias in our health-care system, and of the insidious consequences of present-day racism affects who lives and who dies.

He is a breaker of things and people

kept the door open long enough to holler after her, "And why can't you hit like a girl?" He stared at her retreating figure and realized that wasn't one of his finer moments.

I have seen the science I worshiped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve.