Quotes About Impact

No one will remember you.

One of the new things people began to find out in the last century was that thoughts - just mere thoughts - are as powerful as electric batteries - as good for one as sunlight is, or as bad for one as poison.

She just flew at him like a little cat last night, and stamped her feet and ordered him to stop screaming, and somehow she startled him so that he actually did stop, and this afternoon—well just come up and see, sir. It's past crediting.

The youngest youngster vibrates with the shock of cannon firing, even though the sound may not be near enough to be heard, answered Coombe. We're all vibrating unconsciously. We are shuddering consciously at the things we hear and are mad to put a stop to, before they go further.

Immortality, she'd always thought, is how you live on in the memories of those left.

I look at Sarah and Emma, and I know that's what they want someday, to have an amazing story like this to tell, one where they faced obstacles but were brave, one where they made a difference in people's lives. And that's when I feel that big feeling again - the one I felt the first time I picked up Monster's bass - that strange sense that I'm becoming larger. Just by sitting here listening. Just by understanding how large a person's life can be -Janie

You are so intense. Like a storm. It's shocking how intense you are.

When someone so young and lovely vanishes they leave a cutout in the atmosphere; they don't fade. They leave a place for the sun rays to cut through and burn us, melt all the important ice to floods.

culturally idolized beauty is not only foolproof, but potentially dangerous.

The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.

good writing should be grasped at once—in a second.

The eyes of someone you kill are immortal, if they face you at the fatal instant. They have a terrible black color. They shake you more than the streams of blood and the death rattles, even in a great turmoil of dying. The eyes of the killed, for the killer, are his calamity if he looks into them. They are the blame of the person he kills.

Every song may be someone's personal implement of torture.

People either weigh you down or give you wings.

Life is like a pond, and every decision and act we commit, good or bad, is a pebble flung into it. The ripples spread in widening circles.

upon entering the school of medicine in Rome. He was the only student whose father had once been a slave, a fact that had less impact in Rome, where he had still had unlimited

Spanish civilization crushed the Indian. English civilization scorned and neglected him. French civilization embraced and cherished him. Francis Parkman

Uno no puede saber nunca el lugar que ocupa realmente en la vida de otra persona.

No love, no friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever.

Momentous events, the stuff of a nation's history, were sometimes dependent on individuals commonly thought the least likely to set them in motion.

I made mistakes in drama. I thought drama was when actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries.

I made some mistakes in drama. I thought the drama was when actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries.

What the eyes had seen could not be erased.

Ideas are most to feared when they become actions, Paul said.