Quotes About Impact

Gifts were dangerous things, she thought. Sometimes one succeeded only in taking far more than one gave.

I believe," he said gently, "we all have a perfect right to make ourselves unhappy if that is what we freely choose. But I am not sure we have the right to allow our own unhappiness to cause someone else's. The trouble with life sometimes is that we are all in it together.

L'homme c'est rien, l'oeuvre c'est tout»

What is the use of having powers, doctor, when one has no field upon which to exert them?

El hombre no es nada, la obra lo es todo.

La amabilidad de ciertas personas es más mortífera que la violencia de gentes más rudas.

When a stone is dropped into a pond, the water continues quivering even after the stone has sunk to the bottom.

I've often observed that men and women who were young children during these years [of defeat in war] have a certain seriousness about them; there was too little laughter in their childhoods.

Ne?u re?i da su da su mi se emocije staložile do sljede?eg jutra kad se vlak zaustavio na peronu kolodvora u Kyotu. Napokon kad baciš kamen u ribnjak, voda još dugo treperi i nakon što je kamen potonuo na dno.

No puedes pretender que careces de toda influencia. Tienes la obligación de utilizar toda la influencia que tengas, a no ser que quieras ir a la deriva por la vida, como un pez panza arriba llevado por la corriente.

În zilele noastre, oamenii par s? cread? c? vieÈ›ile lor sunt pe de-a-ntregul construite prin opÈ›iune; dar pe vremea aceea ne consideram buc??i de lut care p?strau pe vecie amprentele celor care le atinseser?.

Each wrong idea we follow is a crime committed against future generations.

Noi toÈ›i am crezut c? istoria ar putea fi tratat? ca o experien?? de fizic?. Deosebirea este c? în fizic? poÈ›i repeta o experien?? de o mie de ori, dar în istorie o singur? dat?.[...] - ?i acum ce s? facem? întreb? Ivanov. S? st?m cu mâinile încruciÈ™ate pentru c? urm?rile unei acÈ›iuni nu pot fi pe deplin prev?zute È™i de aici rezult? c? orice acÈ›iune este d?un?toare?

Great drama is great questions or it is nothing but technique. I could not imagine a theater worth my time that did not want to change the world.

Everything influences playwrights. A playwright who isn't influenced is never of any use.

They believed, in short, that they held in their steady hands the candle that would light the world. We have inherited this belief, and it has helped and hurt us.

THE KNICKERBOCKERBREAKER

By being too sensitive I have wasted my life.

A word too much always defeats its purpose.

Autorytety, których przeciwnik wcale nie rozumie, po wiÄ™kszej cz??ci oddziaÅ'ywajÄ… najsilniej.

Uderz, ale wys?uchaj

just as the mistakes princes make are paid for by whole peoples, so the errors of great minds spread their malign influence over whole generations, even for hundreds of years, growing and proliferating until in the end they degenerate into monstrosities.

O maior benefício das ferrovias é o fato de elas pouparem uma existência miserável a milhões de cavalos de tiro.

Just as the faults of princes must be expiated by whole nations, the errors of great minds extend their influence over whole generations and even over centuries. They grow and propagate themselves, and finally degenerate into monstrosities. All this arises from the fact that as Berkeley says: "few men think, yet all will have opinions.