Quotes About Impact

Those who crusade, not for God in themselves, but against the devil in others, never succeed in making the world better, but leave it either as it was, or sometimes even perceptibly worse than it was, before the crusade began.

Words are the most powerful of weapons if you use them properly - they'll cut through anything. But what's the good of that if the things you write about have no power in them?

el individuo siente, la comunidad se resiente -citó Lenina.

Rostros todavía lozanos y sonrosados (porque la sensibilidad era un proceso tan rápido que no tenía tiempo de marchitar las mejillas, y sólo afectaba al corazón y el cerebro) se volvían a su paso

You've got to be good before you can do good - or at any rate do good without doing harm at the same time. Helping with one hand and hurting with the other - that's what the ordinary reformer does.

When the individual feels, the community reels, Lenina pronounced. Well, why shouldn't it reel a bit?

How can one be violent about the sort of things one's expected to write about? Words can be like X-rays, if you use them properly_they'll go through anything. You read and you're pierced.

No basta que las frases sean buenas; también debe ser bueno lo que se hace con ellas.

Words can be like X-rays, if you use them properly – they'll go through anything. You read and you're pierced. That

Las palabras pueden ser como los rayos X, si se emplean adecuadamente: pasan a través de todo. Las lees y te traspasan.

is the havoc which ensues when a man with an idealistic misconception of life born of a cloistered and emotionally deprived upbringing experiences the full, sensual impact of human passion.

the man had meant well enough. Which only made it, in a way, much worse. Those who meant well behaved in the same way as those who meant badly.

Words can be like X-rays, if you use them properly – they'll go through anything.

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly—they'll go through anything. You read and you're pierced.

Nothing is more dead and dated than the book which once caused controversy.

Hay incidentes de un minuto que producen más efecto que un cortejo de un año.

La vida no siempre es lo que ocurre, sino las secuelas de lo que parece ser.

Y así transcurría el tiempo, en aquellos días finales de un Siglo de las Luces que parecía haber durado más de trescientos años, por las tantas y tantas cosas que en él habían acontecido.

A rock is heavy and sand is weighty too, but the anger of a fool is heavier than both.

There are people who die and, with all due respect, you don't lose anything. But he was one of those that when they're gone you feel it. As if the whole world had become, from one day to the next, a little heavier.

Un giorno mi sono accorto che non m'importava più di nulla, e che tutto mi feriva a morte.

Hemos removido la tierra de una forma tan violenta que hemos vuelto a despertar la crueldad de los niños

I often thought about him during the war; if only Novecento were here, who knows what he'd do, what he'd say. 'Fuck war', he'd say. But somehow, coming from me, it wasn't the same.

Perché è così che ti frega, la vita. Ti piglia quando hai ancora l'anima addormentata e ti semina dentro un'immagine, o un odore, o un suono che poi non te lo togli più. E quella lì era la felicità.