Quotes About Impact

I don't know whether to yell at you or hug you.' 'I affect a lot of people that way

You're the scarest motherfucker in the room.

If what I felt had been an actual wound, I'd have been bleeding to death.

Apologies that do not lead to better actions are empty things." "Amen to that," I said.

She was tiny, less than five feet, but somehow didn't seem that small; attitude can make up for inches.

Breeding. It takes real breeding to make a person feel like shit with one word.

I had a really good time tonight. Tons of boys hanging off me. And I could see it was really messing with her head--she kept giving me these dirty looks. So I'm going to get as many boys as I can running after me this summer. Just to make Elisa really…" She pauses. "What would Kelly say? Narked. " Now her smile's real. "I want to make Elisa narked. " I smile back: the English word sounds really cool in her American accent.

It wasn't the big decisions that set the course of one's life; it was the slow accretion of all the little ones.

Her eyes were as hard and bright as stars. Not the pretty sort that poets mooned about, but the kind that made men's destinies. The Orchid Affair

What a very odd thing,' said Janie, 'to live and leave no mark.

Of all the weapons the Europeans brought to the Pacific, guns included, none was more powerful and more capable of effecting lasting change than written language.

The Warrior battles the whole of his life, within and without, against the notion that life doesn't make a difference.

I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me; had they duly consider'd how much depended upon what they were then doing;

Don't expect to make a difference unless you speak up for yourself.

Take your age the first time a stranger touched your body with danger in his hands, evil-minded... But it's not usually a stranger, is it<

Fracture lines etch the surface of the glass box as if a body fell from the sky and landed on it. He doesn't hear the impact, can't smell the blood.

I learned then that words had such power some must never be spoken and was thus robbed of both tongue and the truth.

Some stand-up comic cracks, 'No, Melinda no es linda.' They call me Me-no-linda for the rest of the period. This is how terrorists get started, this harmless fun.

She laid land mines in my skill that detonated weeks later.

I get hosed in Spanish. 'Linda' means 'pretty' in Spanish. This is a great joke. Mrs. Spanish Teacher calls my name. Some stand-up comic cracks, 'No, Melinda no es linda.' They call me Me-no-linda for the rest of the period. This is how terrorists get started, this kind of harmless fun. I wonder if it's not too late to transfer to German.

So many changes, eating away at the world like water dripping on a rock.

Words, the acid-bath of words.

The effective in art is what rapes the emotions of your audience without nourishing its values.

The most tender, the most tragic of illusions is perhaps to believe that our actions can add or subtract from the total quantity of good and evil in the world.