Quotes About Impact

only the vanished truly leave their mark. And

Oh," I said, feeling punched in the windpipe.

How personal this life was, and how every time we grazed against one another even for a moment, we weren't the same afterward.

A week passes but it feels as if he's never been anywhere else. It's one of the things war does to you. Everything you see works to replace moments and people from your life before, until you can't remember why any of it mattered.

Cut everything superfluous,' Pound had said. 'Go in fear of abstractions. Don't tell readers what to think. Let the action speak for itself.

During an interview; Then McLain returns to the impact on Markham and Blixen of the death of Finch Hatton. "You know, there's a line at the end of my book that goes, 'This time with Denys would fade, and it would last forever.' That's something I actually believe about love. Sometimes we don't get to keep the people we love the most and who change us the most. That's an unromantic, uncommercial view of love. But to me it feels absolutely true.

plummeting like a grouse full of bird shot.

I couldn't keep it out and stopped trying. I couldn't keep anything out, I realized, and that was something I loved about Africa. The way it got at you from the outside in and never let up, and never let you go.

In a small place like Mendocino, I know all too well, any act of violence is personal. Everyone will be feeling this. Everyone will be affected.

and he grinned a grin that began in his eyes and went everywhere at once. It was devastating.

The ghosts of the kids you've helped, they hang on you like stars.

The way we're happening to each other?

The child doesn't just live in his environment, it becomes a part of him.

To educate is a great task but it is to put our personal effort at the service of the next generation for the benefit of all humanity. Our effort in education is what will be left of ourselves in life.

Deep-rooted happiness may require a sense of purpose. If I don't feel that I am in some small way contributing to the greater good, holding on to happiness is like carrying water in my hands.

I love the big scale and immediate impact of posters. They're my favourite things to design.

It's alot harder than you'd think to scar a kid for life.

The Captain's hand went to his forehead. A dreadful loss of status in the world. In his world. Loss of reputation and the regard of our fellow persons is in any society, from Iceland to East Indies, a terrible blow to the spirit.

Perhaps it was something like this that changed the captive children forever; the violence they had endured when they were captured, their parents killed. Perhaps it sank down in their young minds and stayed there, invisible and unacknowledged but very powerful. He

One person plus one typewriter constitutes a movement.

There are too many scenes where you think, It's a bit much. The movie crowds you; it doesn't give you room to have an honest emotion.

The power you have over someone who loves you is greater than any other power you'll ever have.

War was like weather – always something to talk about.

If I were to persuade just one person to stop fighting for something they were convinced was worthwhile, I would end up persuading myself, and my whole life would be diminished.