Quotes About Impact

Svetlo koje ?ovek upali za sebe svetli kasnije i drugima.

The voices that speak to us at particular moments in our lives, especially during transitions or crises, imprint themselves with a force that later voices never quite displace.

Either way, change will come. It could be bloody, or it could be beautiful. It depends on us.

In a while he reached across the table and took her hand in his. He could not have known that he was trying to comfort a building that had been struck by lightning.

It simply did not occur to her that she had hurt him as deeply as she had, because she still thought of herself as an ordinary woman, and him as an extraordinary man.

Crashing through the world like a falling stone. It is his color and his light. It is the vessel into which he pours.

To whom did it matter? Did those to whom it mattered matter?

In the end it didn't matter of course.

Sabes lo que ocurre cuando haces daño a la gente? Dijo Ammu. Cuando dañas a la gente, comienzan a quererte menos. Eso es lo que hacen las palabras descuidadas. Hacen que la gente te quiera un poco menos.

Do you realize what you have just done? D'you know what happens when you hurt people? When you hurt people, they begin to love you less. That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.

Do you make all your life's big decisions based on mobile phone videos?

Argentina & Iraq have been decimated by the same process with different weapons; an IMF cheque & cruise missiles.

It is curious how sometimes the memory of death lives on for so much longer than the memory of the life it purloined.

Mientras otros chicos de su edad aprendían otras cosas, Estha y Rahel aprendieron cómo la historia negocia sus condiciones y ajusta las cuentas a aquellos que violan sus leyes. Oyeron su ruido sordo y nauseabundo. Olieron su olor y nunca lo olvidaron.

Ese era el problema con los parientes. Al igual que los médicos aviesos, sabían dónde hacer más daño al tocar.

D'you know what happens when you hurt people?" Ammu said. "When you hurt people, they begin to love you less. That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.

It was raining when Rahel came back to Ayemenem. Slanting silver ropes slammed into loose earth, ploughing it up like gun-fire.

Can starving people go on a hunger strike? And do hunger strikes work when they're not on TV?

It is curious how sometimes the memory of death lives on for so much longer than the memory of the life that it purloined.

Thousands of years of ideological, philosophical, and practical decisions were made. They altered the surface of the earth, the coordinates of our souls. For every one of those decisions, maybe there's another decision that could have been made, should have been made.

É curioso como às vezes a memória da morte vive por muito mais tempo que a memória da vida que ela roubou.

When you hurt people, they begin to love you less. That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less

In Orissa, where it is mining bauxite, Vedanta is financing a university. In these creeping, innocuous ways mining corporations enter our imaginations: the Gentle Giants Who Really Care. It's called CSR, corporate social responsibility.

Someone else said she was a rapevictim (which was a word in every language).