Quotes About Impact

Happy, normal lives going on in happy, normal ways, in a world that was anything but. Once you realized this, experienced something that made it crystal clear, you couldn't forget it. Like a face. Or a name. However you first learn that truth, once it's with you, it never really goes away.

There was no way to take the story back, folding it neatly into the place I'd kept it all this time. No matter what else happened, from here on out, I would always remember Wes, because with this telling, he'd become part of that story, of my story, too.

It takes so little to change everything.

That's the thing about someone who rarely gets upset: when they do, you notice.

So close, I thought. A shorter fence, a fatter dog, and everything would be different. But wasn't that always the way. It's never something huge that changes everything, but instead the tiniest of details, irrevocably tweaking the balance of the universe while you're busy focusing on the big picture.

That's my point. That's why we can't forget. No matter how much time has passed, these things still affect us and the world we live in. If you don't pay attention to the past, you'll never understand the future. It's all linked together.

Todo eso por una palabra? le preguntó Jess. Una palabra, contestó Ted, completamente serio, puede cambiar el mundo entero

It's never something huge that changes everything, but instead the tinniest of details,irrevocably tweaking the balance of the universe while your're busy focusing on the bigger picture.

Everything he feels, he feels strongly. Too strongly, sometimes. I think he freaks people out.

But idols fall, and sometimes they land right on you and leave you flattened.

what isn't said can hurt the most.

That's my point. That's why we can't forget it. No matter how much time has passed, these things still affect us and the world we live in. If you don't pay attention to the past, you'll never understand the future. It's all linked together. You see what I'm saying?

Hearing this, I had that feeling again, like the conversation was a pack of wild horses pounding out ahead of me, leaving nothing but dust behind. Trifecta?

It's never something huge that changes everything, but instead the tiniest of details, irrevocably tweaking the balance of the universe while you're busy focusing on the big picture.

It was like Abe took some part of him when he went, you know? He's never been the same.

one word could change the whole world

And then I think I don't need to write anything down ever again. Nothing's gone, not really. Everything that's ever happened has left its little wound.

That was the only explanation for how good his butt looked and why he was universally known as the Man With the Golden Ass among the women in the building.

Doc didn't have a television but he could predict that sort of thing. He just didn't need one. He could always tell what was on TV when he heard more than two people in a row say the same strange phrase in the same way. He knew that they had just seen it on television. A few weeks later everyone would have those words written on their chests.

After Hiram Bingham built the first church on Oahu the student recalls, When it was completed some of the natives said among themselves, 'That house of worship built by the haoles is a place in which they will pray us all to death. It is meant to kill us.

I]deas, when implemented, turn into precedents with unpredictable and potentially disturbing consequences.

Tacking an object up on a wall changes things.

Wall Comes Down, No Big Whoop.

As I recall, the cover of Time the week the Wall fell read, "Wall Comes Down, No Big Whoop.