Quotes About Impact

Tell the innocent visitor from another world that two people were killed at Sarajevo, and that the best that Europe could do about it was to kill eleven million more.

Sedikit Pengertian, sedikit Perhatian untuk Orang Lain, akan membuat perubahan besar.

Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.

One smirk, and you disassemble my armor.

Una sonrisa, y desmontas mi armadura.

El periodismo sólo tiene una manera de horadar la realidad, y es la manera que el mar ocupa con la roca: con el tiempo y el empuje constante de olas que a veces son suaves y a veces poderosas.

Physical wounds don't matter when I receive them. But if I had to inflict them on someone else, that would wound me in a way I couldn't bear

The revolution has achieved nothing – History will be the judge of that

Yo también lloré como un grifo pasado de rosca, pues nada asusta tanto a los niños, como el llanto de las personas mayores. Ni siquiera el rugido de un león produce tanto miedo a la infancia como el espectáculo de un adulto gimoteando. (P. 14).

I want people to remember me as a full on entertainer and a good person.

At which time the repulsor puts out its final effort and slows you down so you crash quite slowly into the surface." "Crash." "Quite slowly." Face & Luke

Let me not die unremembered

Nope. It's an axiom of the trade: When a moving head hits a fixed object hard enough, you get a crack; when a moving object hits a fixed head you get a depressed fracture.

Poetry does important work and that work has a bearing on real life, but I've often been stymied by the question of how poems can effect material change in a world that is, generally, not especially interested in what poetry or poets have to say.

War will change people.

She didn't need to be someone else. She needed to use her power to make the world a better place.

She did love them all. They had found a purpose for her. They had given her something noble to do that would benefit the entire world.

Because whether inspiration comes from an actual place or not doesn't matter if you don't choose to do something with it. And if you do choose to do something with it, the stories you create don't matter unless they make ripples in the world.

Sometimes a spouse, in trying to relieve a partner's distress, accomplishes just the opposite.

Your anger is like a force of nature. It can be as beautiful as a flower or as destructive as a hurricane

Every rock or molotov cocktail thrown should make a very obvious political point. Random violence produces random propaganda results. Why waste even a rock?

Julius, You radicalized more young people than we ever could. You're the country's top Yippie.

Isn't it amazing how one small little guy can make us feel so bad about ourselves, despite the thoughts and adjustments that have gotten us to the places we are in our lives?

People virtually never get two chances to make a good first impression. It is also a lot harder to reverse a bad first impression than to make a good first impression.