Effect Quotes - page 3

When I hear any man talk of an unalterable law, the only effect it produces upon me is to convince me that he is an unalterable fool. (Sydney Smith)
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant. View quote
Horace
There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave. View quote
Louis Kronenberger
If goodness has causes, it is not goodness; if it has effects, a reward, it is not goodness either. So goodness is outside the chain of cause and effect. View quote
Leo Tolstoy
A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or newspaper the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt. View quote
Mark Twain
People think that creativity is largely a matter of talent, experience, or luck. They are wrong. Talent, experience, and luck are all key elements, but there is something more fundamental, accessible, and powerful that you can use to multiply your creative effect. View quote
Richard Koch
Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind. View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald
One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems dis. View quote
Albert Einstein
Reticence may be an elderly doctrine to preach, yet from the artistic point of view I am sure it is a sound one. Reticence conduces to effect, blatancy ruins it. View quote
M. R. James
In the world at large, people are rewarded or punished in ways that are often utterly random. In the garden, cause and effect, labor and reward, are re-coupled. Gardening makes sense in a senseless world. By extension, then, the more gardens in the world, the more justice, the more sense is created. View quote
Andrew Weil
My passion and great enjoyment for architecture, and the reason the older I get the more I enjoy it, is because I believe we - architects - can effect the quality of life of the people. (Richard Rogers)
Every indication of wisdom, taken from the effect, is equally an indication of power to execute what wisdom planned. View quote
Thomas Reid
It is idle to say that nations can struggle to outdo each other in building armaments and never use them. History demonstrates the contrary, and we have but to go back to the last war to see the appalling effect of nations competing in great armaments. View quote
Frank B. Kellogg
Barriers tend to intensify romance. It's called the 'Romeo and Juliet effect.' I call it 'frustration attraction.' View quote
Helen Fisher
Communications devices were always used to effect change, to effect revolution. Telephone, telegraph - these all seemed like very big enhancements at the time. View quote
Gary Shteyngart
Insider trading is hard to prove. To be convicted, a person must have bought or sold a stock based on material information that is both unknown to the general public and likely to have had an important effect on a company's stock price. View quote
Alex Berenson
And the annual meetings of the League's Assembly are in effect official peace congresses binding on the participating states to an extent that most statesmen a quarter of a century ago would have regarded as utopian. View quote
Hjalmar Branting
Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them as the birth pangs of a new order. View quote
Christopher Lasch
Social psychology is especially interested in the effect which the social group has in the determination of the experience and conduct of the individual member. View quote
George Herbert Mead
People became more interested in my love life than in me, and that has a certain effect. You start to feel very empty and worth nothing, you start to become a piece in a board game you never wanted to play. View quote
Anna Friel
As you can appreciate over my lifetime I've developed a large vocabulary of sounds each requiring certain physical techniques often combined with a specific effect box. (Adrian Belew)
The Emancipation Proclamation, signed by President Abraham Lincoln, was put into effect on January 1, 1863, but news of the Proclamation and enforcement did not reach Texas until after the end of the Civil War almost two years later. View quote
Corrine Brown
It's not just the effect of technology on the environment, on religion, on the economic structure, on society, on politics, etc. It's that everything now exists in technology to the point where technology is the new and comprehensive host of nature of life. View quote
Godfrey Reggio
I wanted the players to feel like they were part of a family, to be conscious of that controlled togetherness as they made that slow entrance onto the field. It had a great psychological effect on the opposing team, too. They'd never seen anything like it. View quote
Hayden Fry
I want my life to effect the balance to the positive. View quote
Mira Sorvino