Effect Quotes - page 2

The basic scientific conclusions on climate change are very robust and for good reason. The greenhouse effect is simple science: greenhouse gases trap heat, and humans are emitting ever more greenhouse gases. (Nicholas Stern)
Indeed; peace literature is almost exclusively read, though to good effect, by pacifists, while what is needed is the canvassing of those who have not so far been won to the cause. View quote
Fredrik Bajer
The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction. View quote
Christopher Lasch
The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a Theatrical Show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that; i.e. all the Glory of it. View quote
John Adams
Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity. Surrealism to me is reality. View quote
John Lennon
The most violent revolutions in an individual's beliefs leave most of his old order standing. Time and space, cause and effect, nature and history, and one's own biography remain untouched. New truth is always a go-between, a smoother-over of transitions. It marries old opinion to new fact so as ever to show a minimum of jolt, a maximum of continuity. View quote
William James
Grace in women has more effect than beauty. View quote
William Hazlitt
I don't know what effect these men will have on the enemy, but by God, they terrify me. View quote
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago. View quote
Edgar Allan Poe
By relieving the brain of all unnecessary work, a good notation sets it free to concentrate on more advanced problems, and, in effect, increases the mental power of the race. View quote
Alfred North Whitehead
Government was intended to suppress injustice, but its effect has been to embody and perpetuate it. (William Godwin)
The true test of all the arts, is not solely whether the production is a true copy of nature, but whether it answers the end of art, which is to produce a pleasing effect upon the mind. View quote
Joshua Reynolds
Gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original; in fact, it is a kind of imitation that produces the very notion of the original as an effect and consequence of the imitation itself. View quote
Judith Butler
A man's accomplishments in life are the cumulative effect of his attention to detail. View quote
John Foster Dulles
In executing the duties of my present important station, I can promise nothing but purity of intentions, and, in carrying these into effect, fidelity and diligence. View quote
George Washington
Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls. View quote
Gaston Bachelard
Pernicious weed whose scent the fair annoys, Unfriendly to society's chief joys Thy worst effect is banishing for hours The sex whose presence civilizes ours. View quote
William Cowper
I am not out to destroy Microsoft, that would be a completely unintended side effect. View quote
Linus Torvalds
Here you would know and enjoy what posterity will say of Washington. For a thousand leagues have nearly the same effect with a thousand years. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
If you confront anyone who has lied with the truth, he will usually admit it - often out of sheer surprise. It is only necessary to guess right to produce your effect. View quote
Agatha Christie
As geographers, Sosius, crowd into the edges of their maps parts of the world which they do not know about, adding notes in the margin to the effect that beyond this lies nothing but sandy deserts full of wild beasts, and unapproachable bogs. (Plutarch)
Gee, I never thought I had an effect on people until I was in Korea. View quote
Marilyn Monroe
All the excitements of a prohibited book had their usual effect, one of which, as always, is to expose the fact that the censors don't know what they are talking about. View quote
Christopher Hitchens
What postmodernism gives us instead is a multicultural defense for male violence - a defense for it wherever it is, which in effect is a pretty universal defense. View quote
Catharine MacKinnon
In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not its taste, but its effect, ... View quote
J. William Fulbright