Quotes About Impact

all about reaction as opposed to action.

But, like water falling drop by drop onto your face for hours and days and weeks, that tiny insults slowly came to have enormous power over me.

If a tree falls in a forest and gets pulped to make paper for a book that never gets read, but there's nobody there to read it, does it make a sound?

We are all given one thing by which our lives are measured, one determination. Mine are the stories which can change or not change the world. It doesn't matter which as long as I continue to tell the stories.

Can a book rightfully be called a book if it never gets read? If a tree falls in a forest and gets pulped to make paper for a book that never gets read, but there's nobody rot read it, does it make a sound?

Can a book rightfully be called a book if it never gets read? If a tree falls in a forest and gets pulped to make paper for a book that never gets read, but there's nobody there to read it, does it make a sound?

How many books do you have here?" Corliss asked. "Two million, one hundred thousand, and eleven," the librarian said proudly, but Corliss was frightened. What happens to the world when that many books go unread? And what happens to the unread authors of those unread books?

they look at adoption through rose-colored glasses, trying to make it a win/win situation for unplanned pregnancies and infertility, never giving a thought about what effect adoption has on the child.

You'll never see the moments coming that will for ever mutilate your life-at least not until after they've mowed you down. -Savitar

How could one sentence uttered in anger cause so much damage? But then words were the most powerful thing in the universe. Cuts and bruises always healed, but words spoken in anger were most often permanent. They didn't damage the body, they destroyed the spirit. (Acheron)

The slightest stirring in the air can set a hurricane in motion a thousand miles off. (Acheron)

I apologize for Pam. I accidentally hit her in the head with a baseball when we were in fifth grade and knocked her out cold. She's never been right since. (Tory)

One word can give someone the strengththey needed at the moment or it can shred them down to nothing. A single smile can turn a bad moment good. And one wrong outburstcould be that tiny push that causes someone to slip over the edge of destruction.

In the immortal words of Maya Angelou … people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

Every life, no matter how isolated, touches hundred of others. It's up to us to decide if those micro connections are positive or negative. But whichever we decide, it does impact the ones we deal with.

it is by our actions that we are destroyed or saved. The choice is ours.

When you first take someone's life, two people die. The person you just killed and the human being you used to be. You're never the same after that—it changes you forever and not in a good way —and no matter how hard you try, you can't go back to the innocence you had. Ever.

Verbal blows cut to the soul and ate at the heart for eternity.

The Ambrose Malachai will never be forgotten. But it's up to you as to how he'll always be remembered.

A TV can insult your intelligence, but nothing rubs it in like a computer.

Even the mightiest oak can be felled by a whisper of a wind if it comes on the heels of a powerful enough storm.

What he never counted on was me and the degree to which your mother's purity would affect you. (Menyara) You're so full of shit, Menyara, you ought to be a cow pasture. (Nick)

His pale skin turned a greenish cast. A verbal kick in the nuts did that to a man.' (Carlos)

One person could make such a difference in someone's life. Either good or bad. With their actions and words, a single individual had the power to save or destroy another.