Quotes about Impact

I want to live my life so my aura, when it leaves, is very bright.

You have to find what sparks a light in you so that you, in your own way, can illuminate the world.

Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them! They seemed to be able to give a plastic form to formless things, and to have a music of their own as sweet as that of viol or of lute. Mere words! Was there anything so real as words?

One has a right to judge a man by the effect he has over his friends.

The work of art is to dominate the spectator: the spectator is not to dominate the work of art.

He'd half meant to speak but those eyes had altered the world forever in the space of a heartbeat.

Each memory recalled must do some violence to its origins.

He thought each memory recalled must do some violence to its origins.

What was it you said? After the math comes the aftermath?

Real trouble doesn't begin in a society until boredom has become its most general feature. Boredom will drive even quietminded people down paths they never imagined.

The lesson of a life can never be its own. Only the witness has power to take its measure. It is lived for the other only.

He'd half meant to speak but those eyes had altered the world forever in the space of a heartbeat.