Affect Quotes

Little things affect little minds. (Benjamin Disraeli)
The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively. View quote
Bob Marley
When distrust exists between governments, when there is a danger of war, they will not be willing to disarm even when logic indicates that disarmament would not affect military security at all. View quote
Ludwig Quidde
Age shouldn't affect you. It's just like the size of your shoes - they don't determine how you live your life! You're either marvellous or you're boring, regardless of your age. View quote
Morrissey
We easily forgive our friends those faults that do no affect us ourselves. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
A changing environment will affect Alaska more than any other state, because of our location. I'm not one though who would attribute it to being man-made. View quote
Sarah Palin
The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety. View quote
Sigmund Freud
There's going to be stress in life, but it's your choice whether to let it affect you or not. View quote
Valerie Bertinelli
The end of all good music is to affect the soul. View quote
Claudio Monteverdi
Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change – it can not only move us, it makes us move. (Ossie Davis)
The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief. View quote
George Eliot
Everyone recognizes that's a joke because obviously the number and shape of the pieces doesn't affect the size of the pizza. And similarly, the stocks, bonds, warrants, etc., issued don't affect the aggregate value of the firm. View quote
Merton Miller
Art to me is a humanitarian act, and I believe that there is a responsibility that art should somehow be able to affect mankind, to make the word a better place. View quote
Jeff Koons
Sad fancies do we then affect, In luxury of disrespect To our own prodigal excess Of too familiar happiness. View quote
William Wordsworth
Some people do indeed say that Eratosthenes could not have inferred the true measure of the earth. Whether true or untrue, it cannot affect the truth of what I have written on the fixing of the quarters from which the different winds blow. View quote
Vitruvius
I think from an early age I was aware of how a camera can tell a story, how a movie camera can affect how the narrative is told. View quote
Brian Selznick
The science supporting the relationship between carbohydrates and dementia is quite exciting, as it paves the way for lifestyle changes that can profoundly affect a persons chances of remaining intact, at least from a brain perspective. View quote
David Perlmutter
In London, the weather would affect me negatively. I react strongly to light. If it is cloudy and raining, there are clouds and rain in my soul. View quote
Jerzy Kosinski
Americans need to understand the significance of having their civil liberties dismantled. It doesn't just affect terrorists and foreigners, it affects us all. View quote
Bianca Jagger
I am a huge believer in giving back and helping out in the community and the world. Think globally, act locally I suppose. I believe that the measure of a person's life is the affect they have on others. (Steve Nash)
When inward life dries up, when feeling decreases and apathy increases, when one cannot affect or even genuinely touch another person, violence flares up as a daimonic necessity for contact, a mad drive forcing touch in the most direct way possible. View quote
Rollo May
If you mean to know yourself, interline such of these aphorisms as affect you agreeably in reading, and set a mark to such as left a sense of uneasiness with you; and then show your copy to whom you please. View quote
Johann Kaspar Lavater
The government have only a small majority in the House of Commons. I want to make it quite clear that this will not affect our ability to govern. Having been charged with the duties of Government we intend to carry out those duties. View quote
Harold Wilson
Art is not like other culture because its success is not made by its audience. The public fill concert halls and cinemas everyday, we read novels by the millions, and buy records by the billions. 'We the people' affect the making and quality of most of our culture, but not our art. View quote
Banksy