Quotes About Impact

History is the poisoned well, seeping into the ground-water. It's not the unknown past we're doomed to repeat, but the past we know. Every recorded event is a brick of potential, of precedent, thrown into the future. Eventually the idea will hit someone in the back of the head. This is the duplicity of history: an idea recorded will become an idea resurrected. Out of fertile ground, the compost of history.

Her happiness swept the house in a whirlwind; her misery wrapped it in a purple gloom.

A good book changes you,even if it is only to add a little to the furniture of your mind. It will make you laugh and perhaps cry; it should certainly make you think.

We will all miss him, even if we don't know it is his absence that is hurting us.

without honor and kindness there are no rituals in the world that make any difference

It isn't what you feel, it's what you do that counts.

A singer can shatter glass with the proper high note, he said, but the simplest way to break glass is simply to drop it on the floor.

One tiny flame could make so many other flames; one tiny flame could set afire a whole world.

I never laugh at death, no matter how often and regularly I am the cause of it.

Look on the effect of your religions, those movements that have swept up millions with their fantastical claims. Look at what they have done to human history. Look at the wars fought on account of them; look at the persecutions, the massacres. Look at the pure enslavement of reason; look at the price of faith and zeal.

Genealogy belongs to the rich in human history. The poor rise and fall without leaving a footprint.

What a miracle, I thought. One tiny flame could make so many other flames; one tiny flame could set afire a whole world. Why, I had, with this simple gesture, actually increased the sum total of light in the universe, had I not?

I mean that one cannot expect to possess knowledge which does not change one. Once one knows, then one is acting upon that knowledge, whether it is to withhold the knowledge from those who would also be changed, or to give it to them.

Did they have no inkling of how the advances in lighting had affected the behavior and the minds of people, what it meant for the tiniest hamlet to have its brilliantly lighted drugstores and supermarkets, and for people to wander at eight o'clock of an evening with the same energetic curiosity and eagerness for work and experience that they enjoyed during the sunlight hours?

how can you underestimate the effects of your books, your words, all of it on all the blood drinkers in existence?

A singer can shatter a glass with the proper high note," he said, "but the simplest way for anyone to break a glass is simply to drop it on the floor.

Telling people-did it ever make things better?

Do it for a world that will never knew you or thank you, but a world that you can now truly save.

I have no one here, and then who comes but one who left such a stamp on my girlish heart that the details are as deep as the finest coin.

How many centuries must pass before the blood of so many has soaked deep enough into the earth to be forgotten?

Anger did move me and perhaps in the wrong way.

We injure those we love.

death, no matter how often and regularly I am the cause of it.

Una pequeña llama puede crear muchas otras llamas; una pequeña llama puede incendiar un mundo entero.