Quotes with effect

Quotes 141 till 148 of 148.

  • Alan Cohen When we make the choice to care, we set into motion a snowball effect that touches many people, most of whom we will never know about... never underestimate the importance of a kind act.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Billy Gardell Whenever I realize I'm being a goofball, I write it down. When I release the joke onstage, I love watching the effect it has on the audience. No one wants to see someone talk who takes themselves too seriously.
    Billy Gardell
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1969 - )
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  • George Eliot Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Ann Patchett You see an absolutely brilliant film later, as an adult, and you walk out thinking about what to have for dinner. Whereas something like Jaws winds up having a huge effect on me. If only my parents had been taking me to Kurosawa films when I was eight, but no.
    Ann Patchett
    American author (1963 - )
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  • Thomas Hobbes 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.
    Thomas Hobbes
    British philosopher (1588 - 1679)
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  • Edgar Allan Poe I have no faith in human perfectibility. 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.
    Edgar Allan Poe
    American poet, writer and critic (1809 - 1849)
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  • Graham Greene I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect - it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives away a little of his own importance; the bribe once accepted, he becomes the inferior, like a man who has paid for a woman.
    Graham Greene
    English writer (1904 - 1991)
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  • William Shakespeare I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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