Quotes with effect

  • The best thing is the combined effect of nicotine with alcohol, greater than the sum of the two parts.
  • Nonviolent actions does not have to get others to be nice. It can in effect force them to consult their consciences.
  • A whole bunch of agents and editors looked at my stories, and they all said, in effect, 'You're a pretty good writer and you should probably get these published; when you grow up and write a novel, get in touch.'
  • The primary function of a constitution was to mark out the boundaries of governmental powers-hence in England, where there was no constitution, there were no limits (save for the effect of trail by jury) to what the legislature might do.
  • Never let any man imagine that he can pursue a good end by evil means, without sinning against his own soul! Any other issue is doubtful; the evil effect on himself is certain.
  • For it is with the mysteries of our religion, as with wholesome pills for the sick, which swallowed whole, have the virtue to cure; but chewed, are for the most part cast up again without effect.
  • The Pause; that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, however so felicitous, could accomplish it.
  • Many progressive economists insist that gold is now in essentially the same position as silver and that the arguments the simon-pure gold advocates use against the white metal can be directed with equal effect against their own fetish.
  • If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.
  • All we need is a meteorologist who has once been soaked to the skin without ill effect. No one can write knowingly of the weather who walks bent over on wet days.
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  • Horace Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • F. Scott Fitzgerald Genius is the ability to put into effect what is in your mind.
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    American writer (1896 - 1940)
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  • Amelia Earhart The effect of having other interests beyond those domestic works well. The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.
    Amelia Earhart
    American aviation pioneer and author (1897 - 1937)
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  • Sir Max Beerbohm To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people. A conceited man is satisfied with the effect he produces on himself.
    Sir Max Beerbohm
    British Actor (1872 - 1956)
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  • Josh Billings Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist - it reduces him to his fighting weight.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Vaclav Havel Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance.
    Vaclav Havel
    Czech statesman, writer and former dissident (1936 - 2011)
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  • John Keats Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.
    John Keats
    English poet (1795 - 1821)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Self-denial is not a virtue, it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Benjamin Cardozo A judge is to give effect in general not to his own scale of values, but to the scale of values revealed to him in his readings of the social mind.... Objective tests may fail him, or may be confused as to bewilder. He must then look within himself.
    Benjamin Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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  • Bill Walton A lot of people understand what not saying anything means, so, in effect, not saying anything is really saying a lot.
    Bill Walton
    American basketball player (1952 - )
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  • L. Ron Hubbard A person is either the effect of his environment or is able to have an effect upon his environment.
    L. Ron Hubbard
    American author and the founder of the Church of Scientology (1911 - 1986)
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  • Mark Twain A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words... the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Bruce Sterling A security cam is one small part of a much larger universe of cams. The much larger effect, socially, politically and economically, is going to come from a much larger trend.
    Bruce Sterling
    American science fiction author (1954 - )
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  • Bob Shacochis A whole bunch of agents and editors looked at my stories, and they all said, in effect, 'You're a pretty good writer and you should probably get these published; when you grow up and write a novel, get in touch.'
    Bob Shacochis
    American writer (1951 - )
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  • Albert Speer All I know is that these two gases both had a quite extraordinary effect, and that there was no respirator, and no protection against them that we knew of. So the soldiers would have been unable to protect themselves against this gas in any way.
    Albert Speer
    German architect and Minister of Armaments during WWII (1905 - 1981)
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  • Alfred Marshall All labour is directed towards producing some effect.
    Alfred Marshall
    British economist (1842 - 1924)
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  • Alfred Marshall All labour is directed towards producing some effect.
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  • Norman Cousins All this sensory input, which begins in the brain, has its effect throughout the body.
    Norman Cousins
    American Editor, Humanitarian, Author (1915 - 1990)
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  • E. B. White All we need is a meteorologist who has once been soaked to the skin without ill effect. No one can write knowingly of the weather who walks bent over on wet days.
    E. B. White
    American writer (1899 - 1985)
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  • Samuel Johnson All wonder is the effect of novelty on ignorance.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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