Quotes About Impact

You begin to see that you yourself, innocent, upright you, have contributed and do contribute to the misery of the world. Which will never end because we're what we are.

Sometimes a minute can be a mighty powerful thing.

They're not really bombs -- they're acoustic provocations.

The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

Good things, when short, are twice as good.

Nous n'y connaissons pas encore de remède au mal que produit une phrase.

Sunt fericiri în care nu mai crezi. Ele vin ca o lovitur? de tr?znet ?i te mistuie.

These words struck the vicar a blow, which he felt the more because his late reverie had made him completely happy.

A man may be put to death by a thought.

The words fell as the axe of a skillful woodman falls at the root of a young tree and brings it down at a single blow.

Nakajima's past would always be there, so the foundation could crumble at any moment. That's what happens, I realized, when people destroy other people.

Things that don't matter at all to one person can hurt another so deeply it seems as bad as dying.

Most people are constantly perpetrating little acts of violence on others, even when they don't mean to.

Los grandes hombres, sólo con existir, emiten una luz que ilumina a quienes están a su alrededor, y cuando esta luz se apaga proyecta una sombra pesada, irremediablemente.

I'm extremely, almost pathologically sensitive to violence, and I pick up on it immediately when something violent is happening. Most people are constantly perpetrating little acts of violence on others, even when they don't mean to.

That resplendent space created by a piece of fiction can really expand the width of time... Clearly there is a spot somewhere inside our heads they records that feelings we had when we read the book, and it stays with us forever.

Che creatura triste, l'essere umano, pensai. Non c'è nessuno che riesca a fuggire del tutto dall'incantesimo dell'infanzia.

When someone tells you something big, it's like you're taking money from them, and there's no way it will ever go back to being the way it was. You have to take responsibility for listening.

the loss of one ordinary worker is enough to send emotions rippling through the entire staff of a company. And the traces of that emotion would never disappear.

For the first time, I saw the difference we made by being there for people over the years, in the background of their lives.

Cose che per qualcuno sono di nessuna importanza, per altri possono essere terribili come la morte.

I'd always believed I didn't take up a lot of space in this world—that it hardly mattered whether I was here or not. When a person left, the people around them got used to their absence. That was true enough. But when I pictured the world without me, and the people I loved living on in it, I couldn't help but feel like crying.

That resplendent space created by a piece of fiction can really expand the width of time... Clearly there is a spot somewhere inside our heads that records the feelings we had when we read the book, and it stays with us forever

Truly great people emit a light that warms the hearts of those around them. When that light has been put out, a heavy shadow of despair descends. Perhaps Eriko's was only a minor kind of greatness, but her light was sorely missed.