Quotes About Impact

The people who teach us something retain a particularly vivid place in our memories.

It will lie at her very core, for the rest of her life.

Words pressed themselves into her memory, like a shoe sole into soft mud, which would dry and solidify, the shoe print preserved for

It has been drummed into her by physicians and priests alike that the character of a child is determined by the mother's thoughts at the moment of conception.

To ignore it is to drain it of its power.

how different it all might have been, how minuscule the causes and how devastating their effects.

We will hit the ocean or the ground at speed and we will explode like cans of soda.

The words fly out of her mouth, like hornets, words she didn't even know she knew, words that dart and crackle and maim, words that twist and mangle her tongue.

the time I spent in hospital is the hinge on which my childhood swung.

Our choices are going to determine the future for our children, our children's children, and their children. I take that responsibility very seriously.

The United Nations four or five years ago put out a study that said the meat industry, meat-eating, growing meat for food is the No. 1 killer of our planet - not No. 2 or No. 3: No 1. You know what's No. 2? Transportation. Everyone thinks that No. 1 is transportation, and goes out and buys a hybrid car. Screw the hybrid cars. Don't eat hamburgers.

There's so many issues tied to the meat industry. I mean, social, environmental, humanitarian - all of them. I know that when I'm eating that I'm not hurting the planet, I'm not hurting other people on this planet, I'm not hurting animals... and I'm not hurting nature.

A subtle-witted man is like an arrow, which, rending little surface, enters deeply, but they whose minds are dull resemble stones dashing with clumsy force, but never piercing.

That energy which veils itself in mildness is most effective of its object.

A wound inflicted by arrows heals, a wood cut down by an axe grows, but harsh words are hateful?a wound inflicted by them does not heal. Arrows of different sorts can be extracted from the body, but a word-dart cannot be drawn out, for it is seated in the heart.

We effect more than we can possibly know. With every mood, every thought, every word, every gesture, we change our lives and our universe.

Almost anything you do is insignificant, But it is very important that you do it.

The future depends on what we do in the present.

You may never know what results come of your action, but if you do nothing there will be no result.

Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.

Whenever we tamper with natural laws, there are consequences," the count said. "The larger the disruption, the larger the consequence.

Chet suddenly wished she had quit teaching the class because of him, that he'd had any effect on her at all.

When I find the road narrow, and can see no other way of teaching a well-established truth except by pleasing one intelligent man and displeasing ten thousand fools—I prefer to address myself to the one man.

Palabras que anulan, que hieren, que nos han marcado a ella y a mí y nos han ido envenenando.