Quotes About Impact

What happened in Nanking, I couldn't claim that as my tragedy. I was not affected. I was not killed.

Aparte de un marido e hijos, necesito otra cosa a la que dedicarme. No quiero haber vivido para nada, como la mayoría de las personas. Quiero ser de utilidad y alegría para los que viven a mi alrededor, aún sin conocerme. ¡Quiero seguir viviendo, aun después de muerta!

He had not touched me. He did not need to. His presence had affected me in such a way that I felt as if he had caressed me for a long time.

says he is afraid of me because I am the kind of woman who leaves scars.

a beautiful voice that haunted people

The past has a way of walking around in the present, behaving as if it were alive.

Nos actes s'attachent a nous comme sa lueur au phosphore. Ils nous consument, il est vrai, mais il nous font notre splendeur.

If your target as a Muslim artist, writer or speaker is to target only Muslims you need to rethink your plan.

Tell me whom you haunt and I'll tell you who you are.

Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.

He should have told Vlad that in the old days a collection of poems could change your life, but a single poem could also cost the life of its author.

Arriva un momento – pinsò – nel quale t'adduni, t'accorgi che la tua vita è cangiata. Ma quando è successo? – ti domandi. E non trovi risposta, fatti impercettibili si sono accumulati fino a determinare la svolta. O macari fatti ben visibili, di cui però non hai calcolato la portata, le conseguenze. Spii e rispii, ma la risposta a quel «quando» non la sai trovare. Come se avesse importanza, poi!

You tell the truth and people can shit all over it... but somehow once it's said it can't be unsaid; it stays living, somewhere, in someone's heart.

I want writers to write books because they are committed to the content of those books. I want writers to write books as actions. I want writers to write books that can make a difference in how, and even why, people live. I want writers to write books that are worth being jailed for, worth fighting for, and should it come to that in this country, worth dying for.

In the case of someone who is spiritual receptive, it is possible to talk of an analogy between the impact made by a work of art and that of a purely religious experience. Arts acts above all on the soul shaping its spiritual structure.

The first thing to describe is the event, not your attitude to it. Your attitude has to be made clear by the film as a whole, to be part of its total impact. In a mosaic each separate piece is of a particular, single colour. It may be blue, or white, or red — they are all different. And then you look at the completed picture and see what the author had in mind.

It's almost as if Kennedy grabbed a decade out of the 21st century, Cernan said, and spliced it into the 1960s. That helps to explain why, as I wrote in 1993 in the preface of this book, we weren't entirely ready for Apollo, and why we have struggled to absorb its impact ever since it happened. How could the most futuristic thing humans have ever done be so far in the past?

Teachers were powerful enough to kill the indigenous languages: they are not powerful enough to bring them back to life.

The famous injunction, normally attributed to Saint Francis, to 'preach the gospel at all times; use words if necessary', like many timeworn phrases, contains much that is true.

A dead program normally does a lot less damage than a crippled one.

The more effective that communication, the more influential you become.

You work small miracles every day.

The entrance His words find with me, will be the measure of the power of any words with Him.

They have come dressed as robots or space goddesses or aliens because a writer has changed their lives.