Quotes About Impact

That's all we ask of you. Make more than dust.

There's such power in that, being someone's focus.

and a knell rang in the ears of the victors, even in their hour of triumph. —Winston Churchill, 1927

And there are plays – and books and songs and poems and dances – that are perhaps upsetting or intricate or unusual, that leave you unsure, but which you think about perhaps the next day, and perhaps for a week, and perhaps for the rest of your life. Because they aren't clean, they aren't neat, but there's something in them that comes from the heart, and, so, goes to the heart.

the Great Actor, capable of bringing herself to tears, may extort our admiration for her "accomplishment," but she will never leave us stronger; she has made us pay a price, and made us pretend we like it, but we leave the theatre moved only by our capacity to be moved.

One noteworthy source of distinction is that the Jewish population declined precipitously from around 1 ce to 1500 ce; the decline, which may have reduced the Jewish population from 4.5 million to 1 million people, was due to a mix of factors; disease, war, mass persecution, and forced conversion.

No matter what office LBJ assumed he lifted greater than when he found it.

Truman makes friends without influencing people. Dewey influences people without making friends. Arthur Schlesinger Jr.

It was nice to find out, then, that if one is characterologically incapable of not being a total fuckface, science has not shown you will die any sooner . People might just be gladder when you eventually do.

Weak people are destructive; powerful people are constructive. Powerful people create, facilitate, and make things happen.

At the end of a miserable day, instead of grieving my virtual nothing, I can always look at my loaded wastepaper basket and tell myself that if I failed, at least I took a few trees down with me.

I don't know that it had anything to do with us," my father said. But how could it have not? Doesn't the blood of every suicide splash back on our faces?

The thought of killing myself had slowed me down to five miles per hour. The thought of killing someone else stopped me completely.

I later learn that what I suffered was called blunt force trauma. It's remarkably similar to how I felt after the election, as if I'd been slammed into a wall or hit by a car. Both pains persist-show no signs, in fact, of ever going away. The damage is permanent. I will never be the same as I was before the accident/election.

mates, to my sisters and me, are seen mainly as shadows of the people they're involved with. they move. They're visible in direct sunlight. But because they don't have access to our emotional buttons-- because they can't make us twelve again, or five, and screaming-- they don't really count as players.

I once considered suing Farrah Fawcett for invasion of privacy. Hardly a day passed when I didn't see her on a magazine cover, an ad, a poster. She was destroying my life, but now she's OK.

It was like watching someone you hate getting mugged: three seconds of hard-core violence, and when it was over you just wanted it to happen again.

I've always like to think that before killing myself I'd take the time to really mess with people. By this I mean that I'd leave them things, and write letters, nice ones, apologizing for my actions and reassuring them that there was nothing they could have said or done to change my mind.

I'm the most important person in the lives of almost everyone I know and a good number of people I've never even met.

It had nothing to do with changing people—forget that, on a good day you're lucky if you can talk someone into changing their socks.

Doesn't the blood of every suicide splash back on our faces?

Doing something nice for him was easy and immediate and didn't lead to the mountain of junk mail you're punished with whenever you give to an established charity.

In a roomful of shouting people, the one who whispers becomes interesting.' (Peter Schimdt)

In a 1975 Playboy interview, David Bowie caused a furore when he opined that 'Hitler was the first rock star. He staged a whole country.' Oddly, Bryan Ferry would get into similar hot water in a 2007 interview with a German newspaper Welt Am Sonntag, in which he praised Nazi iconography as 'just amazing' and 'really beautiful' and was later forced to make a public statement of apology.