Quotes About Impact

unbelief is a terrible thing. And so is the hurt we cause others unknowingly.

It's true that he didn't kill himself until I was nearly twenty. But his absence resonated retroactively, echoing back through all the time I knew him. Maybe it was the converse of the way amputees feel pain in a missing limb. He really was there all those years, a flesh-and-blood presence smelling of sawdust and sweat and designer cologne. But I ached as if he were already gone.

Be well advised what ye put in his head, for ye shall never pull it out again.

W ?wiecie biznesu korzystne pierwsze wra?enie jest jak mi?o?? od pierwszego wejrzenia.

She didn't think that she could sway the universe, but she hoped that you could nudge it with a prayer.

The power to label is the power to destroy.

Earth pollution identical with Mind pollution, consciousness Pollution identical with filthy sky

We can't save everyone, so we have to do what we can when we can.

To thoughtful natures, events are like depth charges: the surface is calm, but the shock spreads further.

The World Bank has not invariably been my favorite organization. The power to do good goes almost always with the possibility to do the opposite, and as a professional economist, I have had occasions in the past to wonder whther the Bank could not have done very much better.

Filipinos are not a reading people, and despite the compulsory course on the life and works of Rizal today, from the elementary to the university levels, it is accepted that the 'Noli me Tangere' and 'El Filibusterismo' are highly regarded but seldom read (if not totally ignored). Therefore one asks, how can unread novels exert any influence?

there may be thunder in Europe but it is in America the lightning will fall

1872-ben egy júniusi reggelen meggyilkoltam atyámat - ez még a házasságom elÅ'tti idÅ'ben történt, mikor szüleimmel együtt éltem Wisconsin der?s ege alatt -, és mondhatom, az eset mély nyomokat hagyott bennem.

Deep sadness is an artist of powers that affects people in different ways. To one it comes like the stroke of an arrow, shocking all the emotions to a sharper life. To another, it comes as the blow of a crushing strike.

It fought, like the angels and devils, in mid-air, cleaving the atmosphere like a bird, describing a parabolic curve and descending upon its victim at just the exact angle of incidence to make the most of its velocity and weight.

A life, a history, whole patterns of existence altered, simply by doing nothing. The silent lie. The act of omission.

When you do nothing, what do your children inherit? They inherit, nothing.

A man who gives all his thought to doing good, but no thought to the consequences …" Father Yarvi lifted his withered hand and pressed its one crooked finger into Brand's chest. "That is a dangerous man.

He tried to tell himself the dead are dead, but he knew Jenner had been right. Their ghosts stick in the minds of those that knew them, loved them, hated them. Those that killed them most of all.

Rare rages render a man frightening. Common ones render him ridiculous.

A man is measured by his enemies. Worthy ones can be more missed than friends.

It was ridiculous the power she had over him. The difference between misery and happiness was the right word from her.

Rejoice in what you have. Power, wealth, fame, they are ghosts! They are like the breeze, impossible to hold. There is no grand destination. Every path ends at the Last Door. Revel in the sparks one person strikes from another.

You were a hero round these parts. That's what they call you when you kill so many people the word murderer falls short.