Quotes About Impact

I have a gift for enraging people, but if I ever bore you it will be with a knife.

Why argue that it was "only words" except to imply that words are trivial, neither serious nor harmful, an argument that at the least elides the issue of what exactly was said and by whom.10

If Marion Hawthorne doesn't watch out, she's going to grow up into a lady Hitler.

When We Are Very Little, We Learn How to Feel about Ourselves and about Life by the Reactions of the Adults Around Us It is the way we learn what to think about ourselves and about our world. Now, if you lived with people who were very unhappy, frightened, guilty, or angry, then you learned a lot of negative things about yourself and about your world.

The whole world can love you, but that love will not make you happy. What will make you happy is to share all the love you have inside you. That is the love that will make a difference. — DON Miguel Ruiz

Words have the power to shoot down or raise up. Sharp cutting words can whirl for years.

Consequences," said Gamache. "We must always consider the consequences of our actions. Or inaction. It won't necessarily change what we do, but we need to be aware of the effect.

But they both knew that words were weapons too, and when fashioned into a story their power was almost limitless.

Just because it's the truth doesn't make it less insulting.

There are generally three parties to child abuse: the abused, the abuser and the bystander.

The very force of his personality both created and crippled. How much more could he have accomplished had he been kinder? But then, dynamism and kindness often don't go together…

always struck him how much more effective silence was than words. If the effect you were after was to disconcert.

They had such a profound effect on those who sang and heard them that the ancient chants became known as "the beautiful mystery.

Everyone we meet, every word we speak, every action taken or not taken lives in our longhouse. With us. Always. Never to be expelled or locked away.

If you want an idea to flourish, the best fertilizer is the body of a martyr. I don't want her ideas to flourish, but someone else might. Something to think about, Chief Inspector.

I didn't feel the aimed word hit And go in like a soft bullet.

It would be a cull." "Culls happen for the health of the community. They're unfortunate, but necessary

there are generally three parties to child abuse. The abused, the abuser and the bystander. One parent does it but the other knows it's happening and does nothing.

It would have blown the whole grid.

With his words, he crushed these people. Killed these people. They were never, ever the same. They now lived in a netherworld where the unthinkable happened. Where the boundaries would now forever be proscribed by "before" and "after.

I was miserable and making everyone around me miserable.

His magical thinking allowed him to be surprised that when such a good soul dies it isn't remarked. The bells of the church didn't set themselves off. The mice and deer didn't cry out. The earth didn't shudder. It should have.

Julie wasn't as cheery, not as bright as before she'd joined them. They'd tarnished her.

Just because it's the truth doesn't make it any less insulting.