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Quotes About Impact

Take care with your words, Jacquetta, especially in cursing. Only say the things you mean, make sure you lay your curse on the right man. For be very sure that when you put such words out in the world they can overshoot-like an arrow, a curse can go beyond your target and harm another. A wise woman curses very sparingly.
~ Philippa Gregory
Getting a woman into power is not the point—it's getting a good woman into power who thinks and cares about what she does.
~ Philippa Gregory
Ill wishing is a curse on the woman who does it, as well as the one who receives it. When you put such words out in the world, they can overshoot-like an arrow. A curse can go beyond your target and harm another. A wise woman curses very sparingly. I would hope that you never curse at all. Bless you my daughter, and may you remain pure in heart and get your desires.
~ Philippa Gregory
I have overturned the order. Nothing will ever be the same for any woman in this country again.
~ Philippa Gregory
the greater the noise the less the deeds. And grand announcements do not mean great doings. Let
~ Philippa Gregory
Looking from one bright delighted face to another I thought for one illuminating moment what fools we were to make this one man's temper the very centre of our lives
~ Philippa Gregory
What haunts are not the dead, but the gaps left within us by the secrets of others," the psychoanalyst
~ Unknown
Lyra marveled at the effect hope could have.
~ Unknown
Shouldn't a man's character be judged by the way he lives, not by how much destruction he causes? That's
~ Unknown
Words may sting, but silence is what breaks the heart.
~ Phyllis McGinley
Les hémorragies cérébrales sont moins fréquentes chez les amateurs et les joueurs de football que chez le reste de la population. Les cerveaux aussi.
~ Unknown
I think that man was half-right. He is better off out of the game - but the game may not be better off without him. A man should not exist for himself alone. Life made an investment in him, and that investment was not paid off.
~ Piers Anthony
People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.
~ Plato
Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.
~ Plato
But far more dangerous are the others, who began when you were children, and took possession of your minds with their falsehoods
~ Plato
Now, can musicians use music to make people unmusical?'* 'Impossible.' 'Can skilled horsemen use their skill to make people bad horsemen?' 'No.' 'So can moral people use morality to make people immoral? Or in general can good people use their goodness to make people bad?'*
~ Plato
what Shakespeare was to the drama of England, Plato was to ancient philosophy
~ Plato
Nothing taught by force stays in the soul.
~ Plato
That which is afraid is that which is capable of being affected.
~ Plotinus
I used to use business to make money. But I've learned that business is a tool. You can use it to support what you believe in.
~ PO BRONSON
educational television had a dramatic effect on relational aggression. The more the kids watched, the crueler they'd be to their classmates. This correlation was 2.5 times higher than the correlation between violent media and physical aggression.
~ PO BRONSON
In one study, Cummings found that children's emotional well-being and security are more affected by the relationship between the parents than by the direct relationship between the parent and child.
~ PO BRONSON
I suspected later that I might actually saved lives by killing some of them.
~ Poppy Z. Brite
Hurricane will be 'tremendously big and tremendously wet.
~ Unknown