Top 100 Effect Of Quotes
#1. It is probably better that the world knows only the result, not the conditions under which it was achieved; because knowledge of the artist's sources of inspiration might bewilder them, drive them away and in that way nullify the effect of the excellent work.
Thomas Mann
#2. Don't underestimate the ripple effect of what you do. These kinds of actionshave toppled empires.
Leila Janah
#3. Vanity is illustrated in the cause and effect of love, as in the case of Cleopatra.
Blaise Pascal
#4. have the effect of helping it in another,
Tom Clancy
#5. The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies.
Henry Adams
#6. The baby boomer surge is forcing society to face decisions about costs - and particularly what is valuable. It's senseless for clinicians and governments to bear these choices alone; a sad effect of needless paternalism is that it places a false burden on responsible people.
Dave DeBronkart
#7. Actually, guest star roles are really hard. Since you have to walk into a show where the cast has been working together for a long period of time, it can be a real challenge. And you have to feel your way around that while still making an impact on the overall effect of the show.
Jane Badler
#8. The clever combatant looks to the effect of combined energy, and does not require too much from individuals. Hence his ability to pick out the right men and utilize combined energy
Sun Tzu
#9. The effect of this cannot be understood without being there. The beauty of it cannot be understood, either, and when you see beauty in desolation it changes something inside you. Desolation tries to colonize you.
Jeff VanderMeer
#10. For us to err, with the Bible in our hands, is the effect of pride, sloth, and carelessness.
Matthew Henry
#11. Photography is a mechanical device; photomontage is a piece of work done with the products of photography. This entire process forms one whole ... If I assemble documents and juxtapose them with intelligence and skill, the effect of agitation and propaganda on the masses will be enormous.
John Heartfield
#12. What I'm always trying to do with every book is to recreate the effect of the stories we heard as children in front of campfires and fireplaces - the ghost stories that engaged us.
Chuck Palahniuk
#13. I was addicted to amphetamines at the time I got busted, but I tend to think I was on a determined, self-destruct course that had little to do with the effect of Benzedrine.
Patricia McConnell
#14. The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.
Jean Baudrillard
#15. The sole purpose and effect of it is to exclude persecution and to secure the important right of religious liberty.
Oliver Ellsworth
#16. The chromatic scale is what you use to give the effect of drinking a quinine martini and having an enema simultaneously.
Philip Larkin
#17. The 'niche' effect of charter schools guarantees a swift and vicious deepening of class and racial separation.
Jonathan Kozol
#18. Wonder at the first sight of works of art may be the effect of ignorance and novelty; but real admiration and permanent delight in them are the growth of taste and knowledge.
William Hazlitt
#19. A writer doesn't only need the time when he's actually writing - he or she has got to have time to think and time just to let things work out. Nothing is worse for this than society. Nothing is worse for this than the abrasive, if enjoyable, effect of other people.
Nadine Gordimer
#20. The worst effect of party is its tendency to generate narrow, false, and illiberal prejudices, by teaching the adherents of one party to regard those that belong to an opposing party as unworthy of confidence.
Dorothea Brande
#21. The worst side effect of wealth is the social associations it forces on its victims, as people with big houses end up socializing with other people with big houses.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#22. This is the effect of panic, a natural effect, you could say that animal nature is like this, plant life would behave in exactly the same way, too, if it did not have all those roots to hold it in the ground, and how nice it would be to see the trees of the forest fleeing the flames.
Jose Saramago
#23. Support Group featured a rotating cast of characters in various states of tumor-driven unwellness. Why did the cast rotate? A side effect of dying.
John Green
#24. Almost all the moral good which is left among us is the apparent effect of physical evil.
Samuel Johnson
#25. Such is the effect of true politeness, that it banishes all restraint and embarassment.
Fanny Burney
#26. Some people are happy when they are at the sea; I'm happy when I'm standing in front of a shelf of books. It feels like the known place and also the beginning of a new adventure. It has that simultaneous paradoxical effect of making me feel absolutely calm and very excited.
Jeanette Winterson
#27. As I was coming up on the stage, there was one source that could make or break you, the New York Times. Inevitably there would be one actor singled out for a better review, or worse, than somebody else. The effect of that was cancerous, divisive.
Kevin Bacon
#28. The effect of one good-hearted person is incalculable.
Oscar Arias
#29. We have suffered greatly because of this redefinition of science, not just because of the spiritual effect of nonbelief, but because of the resulting widespread attitude that because there is no design to the universe, we human beings are the masters of our universe.
Rex Russell
#30. Nostalgia is a side effect of dying.
John Green
#31. The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy also mentions alcohol. It says that the best drink in existence is the Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster, the effect of which is like having your brains smashed out with a slice of lemon wrapped round a large gold brick.
Douglas Adams
#32. Position, - for the Negro to realize more deeply than he does at present the need of uplifting the masses of his people, for the white people to realize more vividly than they have yet done the deadening and disastrous effect of a color-prejudice that classes Phillis Wheatley
W.E.B. Du Bois
#33. It [the scarlet letter] had the effect of a spell, taking her out of the ordinary relations with humanity, and enclosing her in a sphere by herself.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#34. The Power of Relaxation is the lessening effect of stress. To achieve this we need to have the perfect platform to catalytically reach the summit of inner peace where we are at concord with our self, our friends and The Universe.
Anthony Pan
#35. The moral effect of the thundering of one's own artillery is most extraordinary, and many of us thought that we had never heard any more welcome sound than the deep roaring and crashing that started in at our rear.
Fritz Kreisler
#36. The most appealing side-effect of Sri Lankan cricket from where I stand, shuffling words, has been linguistic.
Romesh Gunesekera
#37. The first effect of poverty is that it kills thought.
George Orwell
#38. If conversation be an art, like painting, sculpture, and literature, it owes its most power charm to nature; and the least shade of formality or artifice destroys the effect of the best collection of words.
Henry Theodore Tuckerman
#39. The effect of the consolations of religion may be compared to that of a narcotic.
Sigmund Freud
#40. Nothing would prove more disastrous to our ideas, we contended, than to neglect the effect of the internal upon the external, of the psychological motives and needs upon existing institutions.
Emma Goldman
#41. That is the effect of my sculptures in the public domain: people are making contact with each other again.
Florentijn Hofman
#42. If you believe you are an effect of the world around you - that your happiness is dependent on this thing or that person - then you are always going to be a victim of circumstance to one degree or another.
Lee L Jampolsky
#43. One superlatively important effect of wide reading is the enlargement of vocabulary which always accompanies it.
H.P. Lovecraft
#44. What perhaps should receive more attention is the effect of the treatment on the virus.
Luc Montagnier
#45. (1) The more thoroughly a photographer explores his subject with the camera (i.e., the more pictures he makes), the more he sees and the better his chance of getting good results. (2) Even slight changes in subject approach can make significant differences in the effect of the picture.
Andreas Feininger
#46. The effect of character is always to command consideration. We sport and toy and laugh with men or women who have none, but we never confide in them.
William Gilmore Simms
#47. Our show is less about a girl who is doing miracles and more about the domino effect of this girl's life, and how everyone else is affected. Our show seems to be a questioning show as opposed to an action sort of fairy tale.
Amber Tamblyn
#48. Hurt people hurt people more skillfully. An expert heartbreaker knows the effect of each incision. The blade slips in barely noticed, the pain and the apology delivered at the same time.
Anonymous
#49. If the only side effect of the criticism is that you will feel bad about the criticism, then you have to compare that bad feeling with the benefits you'll get from actually doing something worth doing. Being remarkable is exciting, fun, profitable, and great for your career. Feeling bad wears off.
Seth Godin
#50. No way exists in the present to accurately determine the future effect of the least of our actions.
Gerald Jampolsky
#51. If two or more instances of the phenomenon under investigation have only one circumstance in common, the circumstance in which alone all the instances agree is the cause (or effect) of the given phenomenon.
John Stuart Mill
#52. The ANC party from time to time comes with legislation which, if accepted and if not nullified by the constitution of court, would have the effect of undermining the constitution and eroding its values.
F. W. De Klerk
#53. The U.S. and China need to take steps - mostly individually, sometimes together - that will have the mutually beneficial effect of supporting and sustaining economic growth.
Henry Paulson
#55. Granny Weatherwax always held that you ought to count up to ten before losing your temper. No one knew why, because the only effect of this was to build up the pressure and make the ensuing explosion a whole lot worse.
Terry Pratchett
#56. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself.
Viktor E. Frankl
#57. The effect of every burden laid down is to leave us relieved; and when the soul has laid down that of its faults at the feet of God, it feels as though it had wings.
Eugenie De Guerin
#58. So. Her husband-to-be was a philanderer. A smooth operator. A debaucher. A rake. A frisker. (Jane was something of a walking thesaurus when she was upset, a side effect of too much reading.)
Cynthia Hand
#59. The effect of great and inevitable misfortune is to elevate those souls which it does not deprive of all virtue.
Francois Guizot
#60. Only in living by the effect of Christ's sacrifice and after its pattern can the saints find out and attempt to do 'what pleases the Lord
Markus Barth
#61. The effect of every sort of New Deal is to increase and prosper the criminal class. It teaches precisely what all professional criminals believe, to wit, that, it is neither virtuous nor necessary to suffer and to do without.
H.L. Mencken
#62. Life never ceases. Life is an overflowing source, and death is only an obscure effect of illusions.
Andre Luiz Moreira
#63. The principal effect of the passions is that they incite and persuade the mind to will the events for which they prepared the body.
Rene Descartes
#64. The easiness with which she hears of her faults, is only another effect of the levity with which she commits them.
Fanny Burney
#65. If the testimony by which the Jews were assured of the salvation of their posterity is taken away from us, the coming of Christ would have the effect of making God's grace more obscure and less well attested to us than it was to the Jews before us.
John Calvin
#66. The effect of that is to poison the flow of information to the President himself and to create a situation where a President can be almost, to use a metaphor, psychotically divorced from the realities in which he is acting ...
Daniel Ellsberg
#67. Instead of satisfying me, the kisses have the opposite effect, of make my need greater. I thought I was something of an expert on hunger, but this is an entirely new kind.
Suzanne Collins
#68. He paused, I thought, like a man who is watching the effect of the terrors he excites, not from malignity but vanity, merely to magnify his own courage in encountering them.
Charles Robert Maturin
#69. Does he love me?Does he love anyone more than me?Does he love me more than I love him?Perhap sall the questions we ask of love,to measure,test,probe,and save it,have the additional effect of cutting it short.
Milan Kundera
#70. Weird is just a side-effect of being awesome!
Jean Gilbert
#71. Shyness is only the effect of a sense of inferiority in some way or other.
Jane Austen
#72. It did occur to me that the effect of good literature may be as dizzying as that of alcohol.
Pamela Dean
#73. I have often noticed that when Fate has a phenomenal run of ill luck in store for you, she begins by dropping a rare piece of good fortune into your lap, thereby enhancing the artistic effect of the sequel.
Ethel Smyth
#74. The diminution of the reality of class, however socially desirable in many respects, seems to have the practical effect of diminishing our ability to see people in their difference and specialness.
Lionel Trilling
#75. The salutory effect of surviving a heart-attack: One felt that nothing mattered beyond kindness, good manners and humour
Hugh Massingberd
#76. Whether the authorities be invaders or merely local tyrants, the effect of such [gun control] laws is to place the individual at the mercy of the state, unable to resist.
Robert A. Heinlein
#77. What is being said is the effect of something that has happened; at the same time, what is being said is in itself something happening, which will, in turn, leave its effect.
Elizabeth Bowen
#78. Competition forces factory owners to mechanize production, so as to reduce labor costs, but while this is to the short-term advantage of the individual firm, the overall effect of such mechanization is actually to drive the overall rate of profit of all firms down.
David Graeber
#79. Winning is an effect of trying. You have to want it badly enough to go through pain, discipline, and failure to find it. To confront it. To claim it. But most of all, you have to fight for it. Everything else - anything else - is absolute surrender
Chelsea Fine
#80. The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction.
Christopher Lasch
#81. As long as you have a set of beliefs or lack of skills that make you feel you have at the effect of life, you're going to have enormous stress and the quality of your life will go down.
Tony Robbins
#82. People who live with OCD drag a mental sea anchor around. Obsession is a brake, a source of drag, not a badge of creativity, a mark of genius or an inconvenient side effect of some greater function.
David Adam
#83. I'm not a massive fan of 3D. I've seen some good 3D, and I've seen quite a lot of bad 3D. I think if a film is created for the shock effect of 3D, then it's a certain type of film that I'm not massively bothered about.
Richard C. Armitage
#84. She expected from other people the same opinions and feeling as her own, and she judged their motives by the immediate effect of their actions on herself.
Jane Austen
#85. The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.
Samuel Johnson
#86. Success is the exponential effect of little things done consistently over time.
Orrin Woodward
#87. But this, too, was a side effect of dying: I could not run or dance or eat foods rich in nitrogen, but in the city of freedom, I was among the most liberated of its residents.
John Green
#88. Some experiences are mis-educative. Any experience is mis-educative that has the effect of arresting or distorting the growth of further experience.
John Dewey
#90. It is one of the arts of a great beauty to heighten the effect of her charms by affecting to be sweetly unconscious of them.
Christian Nestell Bovee
#91. All my books deal with the effect of intent upon action, how our understanding of good and evil depends heavily on context.
Jesse Kellerman
#92. She wore tight corsets to give her a teeny waist - I helped her lace them up - but they had the effect of causing her to faint. Mom called it the vapors and said it was a sign of her high breeding and delicate nature. I thought it was a sign that the corset made it hard to breathe.
Jeannette Walls
#93. The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self activity.
Thomas Carlyle
#94. Men trust rather to their eyes than to their ears; the effect of precepts is therefore slow and tedious, whilst that of examples is summary and effectual.
Seneca The Younger
#95. He felt the scent and the golden glow of the sunset light as intensely as he felt the dead silence which reigned between himself and Hester almost with the effect of a physical presence.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
#96. Almost every major turning point in the history of mankind was a side-effect of totally unrelated intentions.
Abram Gitspof
#97. In my opinion painting should be considered excellent in proportion as it approaches the effect of relief, while relief should be considered bad in proportion as it approaches the effect of painting.
Michelangelo
#98. Prose is something that is persistent in staying in one place long enough to not only zero in on the dramatic effect of something that might have happened, or something that might have been seen, but also in watching how it played out and thinking about the cause and the effect.
Tracy K. Smith
#99. Accountability is the side effect of human free will.
Kevin A. McKoy
#100. When the mind grapples with a great and intricate problem, it makes its advances step by step, with but little realization of the gains it has made, until suddenly, with an effect of abrupt illumination, it realizes its victory. So it happened to Gautama.
H.G.Wells
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