Quotes About Impact

Although my seat is a contest between Labour and the Lib Dems, it could well make the difference between a Labour and a Tory government at the next election. In terms of international development, this choice is a very clear one.

We need to dig deep and give people a reason to be optimistic just as Obama is doing in America. Because in the same way that outcome of the U.S. elections will change the course of events there and around the world, so too do politics here in Britain.

History always catches up with rebels".

Off with you! You're a happy fellow, for you'll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that!

War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings.

There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap.

It's not my fault that my awesomeness intimidates people.

in nineteen minutes you can norder a pizza and have it delivered. You can read a story to a child or have your oil changed. You can walk a mile. You can sew a hem. In nineteen minutes you can get revenge.

You're a fixer, Grant mused. You're also a colossal pain in the ass. The thing is, it's the pains in the ass that change the world.

You will ask me, after this, why, I didn't tell you this before. It is because I know how powerful a story can be. It can change the course of history. It can save a life. But it can also be a sinkhole, a quicksand in which you become stuck, unable to write yourself free.

It never failed to amaze Alex how, with the brush of a hand, the track of someone's life might veer in a completely different direction.

Las cosas existen mientras haya quien que las recuerde.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. —Anne Frank, Diary of a Young Girl

un arma no era nada si no había una persona detrás.

A song can last long after the events and people in it are dust and dreams and gone.

It just goes to show you: you can put nine thousand miles between you and another person. You can make a vow to never speak his name. You can surgically remove someone from your life. And still, he'll haunt you.

If you want to feel sorry for yourself,then do it in a way that isn't going to destroy other people's lives.

But there's another part of me that knows no matter how Delia and I go forward from this point, it won't be the same. Because when she smiles, I will look away before it is contagious. When we sit beside each other, I will make sure that our shoulders do not brush. When we speak, there will be spaces between our words just the shape and size of that damn kiss.

She threw words at me like handfuls of mud, and now that they've dried, I can brush them off.

When I kept someone else from getting hurt, did I hurt you?

Because it takes more strength to change someone else's life than it takes to change your own.

I wonder how long it takes before the polish given by nature gets worn off by nurture.

Words, he knew, could scar.

No matter what you do for someone-no matter if you feed him a bottle as a baby or curl up with him at night to keep him warm or give him food so he's not hungry-make one wrong move at the wrong moment, and you become someone unrecognizable.