Quotes About Impact

The minute I set eyes on your mother, I felt this thing happen in my gut, like the flu bug hit me worse than any sickness I've ever had, worse than the bubonic plague." His love analogy could use a little work…

She'd taken ten years off his life, frightening him the way she had, and now he'd easily subtracted another ten by kissing her. If he spent much more time with Jenna Campbell, he'd be dead inside a week.

If kindness can alter two people's attitudes toward each other, just imagine what it could do to change our world, one relationship at a time.

ASPIRE TO INSPIRE BEFORE YOU EXPIRE. —MRS. MIRACLE

a smile would certainly increase his face value.

automation, for all its benefits, can take a toll on the performance and talents of those who rely on it.

The choices we make, or fail to make, about which tasks we hand off to machines shape our lives and the place we make for ourselves in the world.

A labor-saving device doesn't just provide a substitute for some isolated component of a job or other activity. It alters the character of the entire task, including the roles, attitudes, and skills of the people taking part.

Words wound deeper than any knife, my lord. Often they fester and never heal.

What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? The world would split open. —Muriel Rukeyser

I went to Guatemala to help build a school but left wondering what help would really look like... I hadn't prepared myself for how humbled I'd feel, or how hard it would be to find my footing when witnessing a cycle of poverty that seemed to defy any sort of help.

God, secrets could simply do you in.

One cannot get rid of a good education, nor, unfortunately, of a bad one, which often is such because one has not wanted to defray the expenses of a good one.

If one of them appears in company, he's a grain of yeast which ferments and gives back to everyone some part of his natural individuality. He shakes things up. He agitates us.

It's plain to you that at the time I write this, I'm not dead. But maybe by the time you read it.

The first time I didn't say anything, because she shot me in the mouth.

The jolt of fear had burned all the red out of my blood.

What you put out into the world will always come back for you.

I'm just saying there are threads, okay? Threads in our lives. You pull one, and everything else gets affected.

This was the photograph, I knew, that had already burned its way into my dreams and my shadows, into that part of my mind that I have no control over. Its image would reappear in all its wanton cruelty for the rest of my life, particularly when I was least prepared for it.

And that's when it hit me. Like a building had fallen on me. The oxygen in my chest swirled into a vortex created by a single instant of horrifying clarity.

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Work and its results always outlived those who labored at it as any Egyptian slave-ghost will tell you.

He had a punch like a bag full of cue balls.