Quotes About Impact

The causing of the little ones to offend hangs a fearful woe about the neck of the causer.

In seeking to improve their conditions, might I not do them harm, and only harm?

if I am not unfrequently sad, I yet cast no more of a shade on the earth, than most men who have lived in it as long as I. I have a strange feeling sometimes, that I am a ghost, sent into the world to minister to my fellow men, or, rather, to repair the wrongs I have already done. May the world be brighter for me, at least in those portions of it, where my darkness falls not.

For I had long thought that the way to make indifferent things bad, was for good people not to do them.

You say you didn't mean any harm: did you mean any good, Curdie?

A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus: 1. What am I trying to say? 2. What words will express it? 3. What image or idiom will make it clearer? 4. Is this image fresh enough to have an effect?

What happens to you here is forever.

The planting of a tree, especially one of the long-living hardwood trees, is a gift which you can make to posterity at almost no cost and with almost no trouble, and if the tree takes root it will far outlive the visible effect of any of your other actions, good or evil.

And yet, just for a moment, what almost frightening power had sounded in that cry from only a few hundred throats! Why was it that they could never shout like that about anything that mattered?

In Moulmein, in lower Burma, I was hated by large numbers of people – the only time in my life that I have been important enough for this to happen to me.

The first effect of poverty is that it kills thought.

Words are such feeble things.

It's queer what an inch or two of fat can do.

ÅžiirmiÅŸ! Nedir ÅŸiir? Alt taraf? bir ses, havada küçük bir girdap. Bir de-Tanr?m!- makineli tüfeklere kar?? ne faydas? olabilirdi?

Was life better before the Revolution than it is now?

They can't get inside you,' she had said. But they could get inside you. 'What happens to you here is for ever

The stuff was like nitric acid, and moreover, in swallowing it one had the sensation of being hit on the back of the head with a rubber club.

Don't let it happen, it's up to you

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labour. War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent. Even

Non possono entrare dentro di te' aveva detto lei, ma in realtà potevano entrarti dentro. 'Quello che ti accade qui è per sempre' aveva detto O'Brien, ed era la verità. C'erano cose, frutto di azioni compiute in prima persona, dalle quali non ci si riprendeva più.

Wydaje ci siÄ™, ?e istnieje coÅ› takiego jak natura ludzka, która oburzona tym, co robimy, zwróci siÄ™ przeciwko nam. Ale pamiÄ™taj, ?e to my ksztaÅ'tujemy ludzkÄ… naturÄ™. CzÅ'owiek jest nieskoÅ"czenie podatny na formowanie.

Un escritor más escrupuloso se preguntará ante cada una de sus frases, al menos, cuatro cosas: ¿qué trato de decir?; ¿con qué palabras puedo expresarlo?; ¿qué imagen o frase hecha lo dirá más claro?, y, por último, ¿tiene esta imagen la frescura suficiente para causar en el lector el efecto deseado? Y

It can safely be said that no one has touched more lives, more deeply, than Death. Through this devastating memoir, it is hoped he will touch many, many more.

The people who live in any generation do much, he realized, either to create or to solve the problems for the people who come in the generations later.