Quotes About Impact

They can alter you. All this, even though they are dead. Like flies in amber, like corpses frozen in ice, that which according to the laws of nature should pass away is, by the miracle of ink on paper, preserved. It is a kind of magic.

And yet I cannot pretend that the reading I have done in my adult years matches in its impact on my soul the reading I did as a child.

She was a do-gooder, which means that all the ill she did, she did without realizing it

Lo lamento -le oí decir-. Nos acostumbramos tanto a nuestros propios horrores que olvidamos el efecto que pueden tener en otras personas.

Nancy Rue has once more proven that Christianity doesn't necessary arrive in a double-breasted suit or wearing pearls. Sometimes it roars in on a Harley, packing more punch than a three-part sermon.

Good decisions can turn into disasters when communicated poorly.

Never mind your intentions. Communication is about what others hear with your words.

Emotional instability for whatever reason can infect the workplace and lower productivity as surely as malfunctioning equipment.

Strong communicators increase their influence because they are intentional and focused with their language.

Dear Momma?Wherever you are, if ever you hear the word nigger again, remember they are advertising my book.

Eine Beleidigung ist ein Zitat aus der Vergangenheit. Ihre Bedeutung hat sie nur deshalb, weil sie von unzähligen Sprechern wiederholt worden ist.

effectively you have

Books leave gestures in the body; a certain way of moving, of turning, a certain closing of the eyes, a way of leaving, hesitations. Books leave certain sounds, a certain pacing; mostly they leave the elusive, which is all the story. They leave much more than the words.

She could assassinate streets with her eyes

I get the feeling I do on finishing a novel with a brick-wall happy ending - I mean the kind of ending when you never think any more about the characters.

Incidentally, I never felt less brisk in my life, because being looked at like that makes a person feel dizzy.

The one Bach piece I learnt made me feel I was being repeatedly hit on the head with a teaspoon

when we go someplace, we leave a part of our energy there and we influence more than we can ever imagine.

By the mid-1950s real estate promoters of the commercial strip were attaching it to the centerless residential suburb. Both strips and tracts expanded under the impact of federal subsidies to developers, but since these subsidies were indirect, it was hard for many citizens or local officials to know what was happening.

The United States has destabilized the peace of the whole world.

I was but something changed. It was Rian and her bullshit." Neveah stood up and rubbed her steadily growing belly. "Or Jigga and his big ass imprint. You

A person rises on a word and falls on a syllable.

Longing on a large scale makes history.

Some people are larger than life. Hitler is larger than death.