Quotes About Impact

they lodge themselves in the infinite corners of recall, and then return in their full regalia in ones and twos and threes, each little bunch stepping forward to corrode the heart with venom again and again.

People like Uncle Hashim can say things like that, even if they are true. They can store them for years, hold on to them and let them harden and solidify, until the moment arrives when they can be delivered as they had been intended to, to crush a bone or bruise the heart.

The words 'I Love You' kill, and resurrect millions, in less than a second.

Democracy is not simply a license to indulge individual whims and proclivities. It is also holding oneself accountable to some reasonable degree for the conditions of peace and chaos that impact the lives of those who inhabit one's beloved extended community.

The issue, perhaps, boils down to one of how perceptions or misperceptions of racial difference impact various individuals', or groups of individuals', experience of freedom in America. Some would argue that it goes beyond hampering their 'pursuit of happiness' to outright obliterating it.

Although the Mongols dominated Russia for close to two and a half centuries, from 1240 to roughly 1480, there is still no consensus among scholars about the extent to which they influenced the course of Russian

Terrible (whom he greatly admired), was molded largely by traumatic childhood

What shall I do to be forever known,And make the age to come my own?

Life is not meaningful to us unless serving an end beyond itself, unless it is of value to someone else.

I have an irrepressible desire to live till I can be assured that the world is a little better for my having lived in it.

I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

I am for those means which will give the greatest good to the greatest number.

The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not." p 533

The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not." -Cutting for Stone

a child's ability for reprisal is infinite, and can last a lifetime.

Be ready. Be seated. See what courage sounds like. See how brave it is to reveal yourself in this way. But above all, see what it is to still live, to profoundly influence the lives of others after you are gone, by your words.

What use is revelation or religion if it doesnt change anything?

the thunder from Down Under that gives you the second-most-powerful surge that can flow through your body.

45-millimeter bullet,

In a few decades, the Indigenous population in Cuba declined by perhaps as much as 95 percent.

Plantations kept growing in number and size, taking over more land and more forests, and consuming more and more African lives. What had been a society with slaves became instead a slave society, one in which the system of slavery left its mark on everything from political to social to economic to cultural life. In the process, the island of Cuba became not only a colony "equal in value to a Kingdom," but also, increasingly, the apple of the eye of a young United States.

By 1530, the Indigenous population of Hispaniola had declined by about 96 percent.

When the plane went down in San Francisco, I thought of my friend M. He's obsessed with plane crashes. He memorizes the wrecked metal details, the clear cool skies cut by black scars of smoke. Once, while driving, he told me about all the crashes: The one in blue Kentucky, in yellow Iowa. How people go on, and how people don't. It was almost a year before I learned that his brother was a pilot. I can't help it, I love the way men love.