Quotes About Impact

These be the sort — she took a fine judicial tone, and stuffed her mouth with paan — These be the sort to oversee justice. They know the land and the customs of the land. The others, all new from Europe, suckled by white women and learning our tongues from books, are worse than the pestilence. They do harm to kings.

Las palabras constituyen la droga más potente que haya inventado la humanidad.

By all ye cry or whisper, By all ye leave or do, The silent, sullen peoples Shall weigh your gods and you.

Cuvintele sunt cel mai important drog utilizat de omenire.

It's queer, she thought, when you're kind to people you can forget them but when you're not, you can't.

She could not take the words back—words never will come back—and she looked round for something she could do.

Anyone can be a cause of his or her own destruction, but no one can claim individual responsibility for having created a great good.

They won't stop killing the whales. They make dog- and cat-food out of them, face creams, lipstick. They kill the whales to feed the dogs so the dogs can shit on the pavement and the people can walk in it.

Old Jiko says that nowadays we young Japanese people are heiwaboke.112 I don't know how to translate it, but basically it means that we're spaced out and careless because we don't understand about war. She says we think Japan is a peaceful nation, because we were born after the war ended and peace is all we can remember, and we like it that way, but actually our whole lives are shaped by the war and the past and we should understand that.

even a fraction of a second, we have the opportunity to choose, and to turn the course of our action either toward the attainment of truth or away from it. Each instant is utterly critical to the whole world.

In even a fraction of a second, we have the opportunity to choose, and to turn the course of our action either toward the attainment of truth or away from it. Each instant is utterly critical to the whole world.

It was an explosion of sadness.

and in even a fraction of a second, we have the opportunity to choose,and to turn the course of our action either toward the attainment of truth or away from it. Each instant is utterly critical to the whole world.

According to the capabilities of the reader, books have their own destinies.

Information like this had a life of its own, and once it entered her mind, she couldn't unknow or forget it.

Guns, race, meat, and Manifest Destiny all collided in a single explosion of violent, dehumanized activity.

The first words of a book are of utmost importance. The moment of encounter, when a reader turns to that first page and reads those opening words, it's like locking eyes or touching someone's hand for the first time, and we feel it, too.

It was a face that instantly robbed those who gazed upon it of a good thirty percent of the energy they needed to go on living.

Such behaviours weren't the reasons parents abused children but the results of abuse.

Good poets are those able to gaze into the darkness of their own hearts. A vivid or beautiful poem is not necessarily a good poem. Poetry that doesn't stand side by side with the reader has no real power.

This is remembered by everyone even today because, in our thinking, the past takes up more space than the future.

Muchas veces, pocas palabras fueron suficientes para hacer o deshacer la fortuna de un hombre

For it is not what happens to me that makes me great, but it is what I do.

Los recuerdos, con el tiempo, se vuelven un precioso tema de conversación y en su alma causará más efecto aquello que conmovió tan profundamente su sentir.