Quotes About Impact

Burning a bridge, as any tactician will tell you, sometimes saves more than it costs.

Let no one say and say it to your shame That all was beauty here until you came.

A hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove . . . . but the world maybe different because I was important in the life of a child.

A woman in power has more urgent business to attend to than her ego.

She was monumentally, conspicuously damaged in a way that was, to us then, ineffably chic.

slight shifts in imagination can have deeper and more lasting impact on our lives than major efforts at change.

I still struggle with the belief that I should be producing something more tangible or useful in the world. 'You should do work that makes a real difference,' scolds the voice in my head.... I worried I was being self- indulgent, spending hour after hour engaged in the slow, halting process of moving from experience to thought to word. What, really, was the point? Why would anyone else care? Why should I? I am coming to believe that there is room in the world for all our stories.

Never mind, he said. We all have our ghosts. And not many secrets between a telepath and a clairvoyant. You really must believe we can do some good, she said slowly. To…willingly expose yourself to so many of us. Deadpan, he said, I didn't think it through.

You're always in a rush, or else you're too exhausted to have a proper conversation. Soon enough, the long hours, the traveling, the broken sleep have all crept into your being and become part of you, so everyone can see it, in your posture, your gaze, the way you move and talk.

And if these incidents now seem full of significance and all of a piece, it's probably because I'm looking at them in the light of what came later...

There was surely nothing to indicate at the time that such evidently small incidents would render whole dreams forever irredeemable.

Kids can be hurtful sometimes. They believe if you happen to be an adult, nothing can possibly hurt you.

And one has a right, perhaps, to feel a satisfaction those content to serve mediocre employers will never know – the satisfaction of being able to say with some reason that one's efforts, in however modest a way, comprise a contribution to the course of history.

It might be just some trend that came and went," I said. "But for us, it's our life.

It might be just some trend that came and went,' I said. 'But for us, it's our life.

Then suddenly, with the skeleton in an obscene heap on the desktop, she turned away and began telling us how we had to be careful who we had sex with. Not just because of the diseases, but because, she said, "sex affects emotions in ways you'd never expect." We had to be extremely careful about having sex in the outside world, especially with people who weren't students, because out there sex meant all sorts of things.

that all good stories, never mind how radical or traditional their mode of telling, had to contain relationships that are important to us; that move us, amuse us, anger us, surprise us.

Gojyo: That no good holy man's been rubbing off on you! Goku: Me? Like Sanzo?! What a rotten thing to say!

A girl my age had been murdered in these woods and I'd seen her last terrified moments, watched her bleed to death in this forest. A life like mine had ended here, and it didn't matter how many times I'd seen deaths in movies, it wasn't the same, and I wasn't ever going to forget it.

Yes, I said You were saved by a girl. Horrible, isn't it? He slid out and looked down at my bare legs. Not just a girl, but a half-naked one. Now that's hot. If I'm still unconscious, don't wake me, okay?

When you accept a leadership role, you take on extra responsibility for your actions toward others. If you shun someone, the effect will trickle down through those who value your opinion.

The whiskey kicked like a mugger.

When a man is certain that he knows God's will, and is resolved to do it regardless of the cost, he is the most dangerous person in the world.

Protestors can have a big impact, but in the end it's governments that reshape the world.