Quotes About Impact

We all matter - maybe less then a lot but always more than none.

I want to leave a mark. But Van Houten: The marks humans leave are too often scars.

Tonight, darling, we are going to right a lot of wrongs. And we are going to wrong some rights. The first shall be last; the last shall be first; the meek shall do some earth-inheriting. But before we can radically reshape the world, we need to shop.

Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.

We're as likely to hurt the universe as we are to help it, and we're not likely to do either.

If you don't live a life in service of a greater good, you've gotta at least die a death in service of a greater good, you know? And I fear that I won't get either a life or a death that means anything.

Look, let me just say it: He was hot. A nonhot boy stares at you relentlessly and it is, at best, awkward and, at worst, a form of assault. But a hot boy . . . well.

The marks humans leave are too often scars.

Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

that's what a book should do. It should tie you up, it should work you up, make you think, make you see, make you feel extra happy and sorrowful, extra nervous and bold. It must be dream laden, scheme sodden, soul shaking. And it must do all of this as mysteriously as a left-handed curveball coming at your head, twisting and spinning and making you duck until, at the very end, it magically crosses home plate, with such grace and command that it humbles, crumbles, and amazes you.

Toxic words corrupt and defile the mind. There are words of suspicion, words of bitterness, and words of death.

What you make happen for others, GOD will make happen for you.

It does not require many words to speak the truth.4       ââ'¬Â¢   Words can make a deeper scar than silence can ever heal.5       ââ'¬Â¢   Kind words are short to speak, but their echoes are endless.6

We are the makers of history, not its victims.

The ultimate question for a responsible man to ask is not how he is to extricate himself heroically from the affair, but how the coming generation is going to live.

A YEAR after the bomb was dropped, Miss Sasaki was a cripple; Mrs. Nakamura was destitute; Father Kleinsorge was back in the hospital; Dr. Sasaki was not capable of the work he once could do; Dr. Fujii had lost the thirty-room hospital it took him many years to acquire, and had no prospects of rebuilding it; Mr. Tanimoto's church had been ruined and he no longer had his exceptional vitality. The lives of these six people, who were among the luckiest in Hiroshima, would never be the same.

The class of people to which Nakamura-san belonged came, therefore, to be called by a more neutral name, "hibakusha"—literally, "explosion-affected persons.

This hitteth the nail on the head.

language has consequences.

The only way you get Americans to notice anything is to tax them or draft them or kill them.

Create the change you seek in the world. Be an ecopreneur. Launch your dream green business.

I write small poems— the kind that fit on a postcard… and still can break your heart

Your steady rain of words soaked me to the skin

study shows that exercise—or at least the resulting fitness levels—can have a powerful impact on that fundamental skill.