Impactful Quotes

“By the dawn of the seventeenth century, the order of Stormsongs had grown both darker and more powerful, while the Holy Roman Empire they allegedly still served found itself surrounded by powerful enemies – and on the brink of collapse.”
― Stephen A. Reger, Storm Surge: Book Two of the Stormsong Trilogy

“If I had made another choice that night, would
my life have been less pursued by ghosts? Or just
significantly shorter?”
― Katie Hall-May, Puck's Legacy

“Despite the countless acts of violence that the two had witnessed, and even participated in, over the years, they were still shocked by what they saw.”
― Stephen A. Reger, Storm Surge: Book Two of the Stormsong Trilogy

“What happens to one of us happens to all of us.”
― Stephen A. Reger, Storm Surge: Book Two of the Stormsong Trilogy

“That is what Frederick is like. He’s part man, part
fantasy. He gathers your wild imaginings about him,
wraps them around himself like a garment. Until
eventually he is a figure made mostly of the mystery you
endowed him with yourself.
And you don’t try to unravel it. Because you’re afraid
that all you’d have left is a pair of brown eyes and a
limp. And by that point, you’ve already given him so
much.”
― Katie Hall-May, Puck's Legacy

“All my life I had longed for a straightforward fight. To
stride out with confidence, and slay a dragon. But there
were no dragons, and the only thing I had ever met
which barely approached one, I had loved.”
― Katie Hall-May, Puck's Legacy

“Be the spark—live light!”
― Laurie Buchanan, PhD

“Good character is much more valuable than content knowledge. However, the combination of both is an asset for making an impact on those around us”
― Norbertus Krisnu Prabowo

“Good character is much more valuable than content knowledge. However, the combination of both is an asset for making an impact on those around us.”
― Norbertus Krisnu Prabowo

“You can’t measure love by time put in, but the weight of those moments. Some in life are light, like a touch. Others, you can’t help but stagger beneath.”
― Sarah Dessen, Once and for All

“I learned to love myself in order to love others...”
― Michelle Knight, Life After Darkness: Finding Healing and Happiness After the Cleveland Kidnappings

“But in the end you are not a god. You're only a child, and all you can do is watch.”
― J Greene, Warm-Blooded

“One thing you will learn with experience of dealing with politicians, is never to be surprised at anything.

- The Linchpin, Pg. 72”
― Neeraj Ashok, The Linchpin

“While trying to frame someone, one needs to bear in mind if the intended target is even capable of carrying out such an operation, so as to make the world believe they actually did it.

- The Linchpin, Pg. 19”
― Neeraj Ashok, The Linchpin

“One thing you will learn with experience of dealing with politicians, is not to be surprised at anything.”
― Neeraj Ashok, The Linchpin

“While trying to frame someone, one needs to bear in mind if the intended target is even capable of carrying out such an operation, so as to make the world believe they actually did it.”
― Neeraj Ashok, The Linchpin

“Storytelling is powerful when creating a vision to your dreams. It's impactful when you inspire others by your integrity and by the promises delivered”
― Bluenscottish

“Impact people’s lives positively”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Do not stop doing small things that have an impact on other people and other creatures in this world, life is mysterious. Be grateful in any situation because you don't know what will happen to you in one night or even in a second.”
― Avisheena

“Tlingit Elder Richard Stitt once said public speaking is 'like waving a broom in a crowded rom.' It was easy for one's words to affect people in unintended, potentially negative, ways. -Roy Peratrovich, Jr.”
― Annie Boochever, Fighter in Velvet Gloves: Alaska Civil Rights Hero Elizabeth Peratrovich

“There was not much sleep anywhere in Earthsea, tonight, Ged thought. He grinned a little as he thought it; for he had always liked that pause, that fearful pause, the moment before things changed.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin

“But that four-leafed clover hadn't brought any luck either to this soldier or to me. He was a man, too, like me, or like Mr. Hubicka, like us he hadn't any distinction or rank, and yet we had shot each other and brought each other to death, although surely if we could have met somewhere in civil life we might well have liked each other, and found a lot to talk about.

And then the explosion rang out. And I, who only a little while before had been looking forward to the sight, lay there beside the German soldier, stretched out my hand and opened his stiffening fingers, and put into them the green four-leaved clover that brings luck, while from somewhere away there in the countryside a mushroom cloud soared into the sky, endlessly expanding into greater heights and vaster smoky masses. I heard the pressure of the air rush across the countryside and hiss and whistle through the bare branches of the trees and bushes, I heard it rattle the transfer chains on the signal, and lean on the arm and shake it; but I lay coughing, and felt my blood draining out of me.

To the last moment, before I began to lose the awareness of myself, I held this dead man by the hand, and for his unhearing ears I repeated the words of the chief of that mail train which had brought those wretched Germans from Dresden:

'You should have sat at home on your arse...”
― Bohumil Hrabal

“It is pride to be proud of your own humility.”
― Kingsley Opuwari Manuel

“i feel like a woman’s words
in a man’s book.
there
but in his voice”
― Elizabeth Train-Brown, Salmacis: Becoming Not Quite a Woman

“In middle school, words aren’t just words. They can be weapons. They can be gifts. The right words can win you friends or make you enemies. They can come back to haunt you. Sometimes they can change things forever.”
― John David Anderson

“Knowledge is your most secure possession—learn quickly to make a real change. The future belongs to those who invest in the power of their minds”
― Dr. Lucas D. Shallua

“Be thankful for those who make your life impactful. They are meant to help you become fruitful.”
― Gift Gugu Mona, The Gift of Thanksgiving

“I lost my best thing"
"You are your best thing, Sethe”
― Toni Morisson

“The Universe Begins with YOÜ!”
― Will Henry

“They [ the victims ] hold on to the pain, but eventually they die and the pain dies with them. And the rest of us build memorials and monuments and hope maybe someone else understands what they mean even if they will never fully feel why they matter.”
― Nelson DeMille, 2 Nelson DeMille Books! 1) Blood Lines 2) The Maze