Quotes About Impact

When Luke and Laura dated in 'General Hospital' when I was a kid, I was very excited. And that was a rather pathetic relationship if you break it down because let's face it: he raped her... and then they got married. There's all kinds of things that TV does to relationships.

Violence, the great equaliser. Cared nothing for money, class, occupation. One day, it simply found you.

Wer ein Menschenleben rettet, handelt, als würde er die ganze Welt retten.

Sometimes memories hit like a wallop, all of a sudden, and hard. Other times, for no reason that anyone can explain, memories take much longer to sink in. They seem to meander a bit before choosing which mind to settle into.

great leaders do not set out to be a leader. They set out to make a difference. It is never about the role- it is always about the goal

It's hard whenever someone makes the wrong choice that affects others around him, but you can't let that change who you are.

It was funny how tangled lives could become, how so many lives could brush against you only to disappear with the dawn.

Someone, somewhere has liked something that Jasmine has posted on Instagram. This means that Alice's phone will continue to pop for the next ten minutes or so as everyone Jasmine knows likes the thing she posted. Alice pictures a sea of disembodied thumbs senselessly pressing hearts. She sighs.

She read it through just once, before pressing send and propelling it forcefully, wantonly, thoughtlessly into the universe, where it would change the course of her life in ways that she could not possibly have imagined.

all happened so slowly, yet so extraordinarily quickly, the change to our parents, to our home, to our lives after they arrived.

Business-class travel. If you haven't done it, then you can only imagine it. And once you have done it, you can never unimagine it—you are ruined for life.

It all happened so slowly, yet so extraordinarily quickly, the change to our parents, to our home, to our lives after they arrived. But that first night, when Birdie appeared on our front step with two large suitcases and a cat in a wicker box, we could never have guessed the impact she would have, the other people she would bring into our lives, that it would all end the way it did.

Thoughts of destiny and cause-and-effect and how maybe if that girl wasn't working in that bar . . . maybe someone else on the other side of the planet would be unable to come up with a cure for cancer.

But it is clear to Alix that Pat is actually a raging narcissist, and that no child of a narcissist ever makes it out into the world unscathed.

Writing is a struggle against the silence where words can have a powerful impact in just a split second and change your life forever........

The span of three or four minutes is pretty insignificant in the scheme of things. People lose hundreds of minutes everyday, squandering them on trivial things. But sometimes in those fragments of time, something can happen you'll remember the rest of your life.

If the feeling is there, you might as well admit it. Saying the words, or not saying them, doesn't change a damn thing

I, cruel to Marks ? I'm the one you should worry about. After a conversation with her, I usually walk away with my entrails dragging behind me.

It was a train wreck happening right in front of me and I couldn't do anything about it, except that not only was I watching, I was also the train.

The right words can bind someone more effectively than chains.

A woman could do that to you - reach that place in your soul where the best and worst of you was kept. And once she was there, she owned that place and never left.

it was better to answer, no matter how ineptly, thank to withhold a reply. Because sometimes silence could wound someone nearly as badly as a bullet.

Some questions change everything.

People lucky enough to live in the vicinity of an industrial hog farm are, with each breath, made keenly aware of the cause of their declining property values.