Quotes About Impact

Each time her mind flashed on that image for a second, a fraction of a second, it blinded her like a flashbulb, burning out the center of her mind's eye to blackness.

This is a must-read book for all those who feel they have the right to engage in any part of the debate on sex education, a woman's right to choose, or the impact of adoption." —

I'm rubber and you're glue, and whatever you say bounces off me and sticks to you.

Normally, my friends and I laugh and joke while we walk to school. Not today. Just the thought that someone we knew might have died put a dark cloud over everything. The main building of Stoneybrook Middle School loomed in the distance, and my heart started thudding faster. I think everyone's did.

Your mind is the basis of everything you experience and of every contribution you make to the lives of others.

Las mentiras son el equivalente social de los residuos tóxicos: todo el mundo es un potencial damnificado por su propagación.

why it is worse to lose something than not to gain it.

He goes so far as to suggest that we were secretly hoping that such devastation would be visited upon us:

If we are in a position to affect the happiness or suffering of others, we have ethical responsibilities toward them2—and many of these responsibilities are so grave as to become matters of civil and criminal law. Taking

Closer at hand, I had decided I wanted to be president of the university student body. I learned early on that one of the secrets to campus leadership was the simplest thing of all: speak to people coming down the sidewalk before they speak to you. I did that in college.

Kindness is a much more crushing force than anger.

Agency. Self-determination. Dignity. Solidarity. We could not discount the potential impact of even one such altered perspective on a young girl, her family, and, eventually, on an entire community.

Mike Bloomberg

When I visited the ambassador from Grenada, she summed up the dynamic with a phrase I had heard often, 'If America sneezes, people in my country catch a cold' (p. 402).

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.

A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.

All change is of itself an evil, which ought not to be hazarded but for evident advantage; and

Naterao ju je da se zamisli. Naterao ju je da se smeje. Naterao ju je da zadrhti.

When I realized that by "no one" this man was referring to approximately 750,000 children, I knew that I had found my passion and my cause.

Generally, it can be said that any Arab house that survived the impact of the war . . . now shelters a Jewish family.

Porque las guerras no se ganan ni se pierden, solamente se sufren. Y todo el que ha estado en una guerra, así salga ileso, es un herido de guerra.

someone will remember us I say even in another time

Someone, I tell you, in another time will remember us.

Marilyn Frye (1983, 88) describes anger as akin to a speech act: "It cannot 'come off' if it doesn't