Men may boast of their great actions; but they are more often the effects of chance than of design. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Special effects movies have taken over the universe. That and scary movies. — Jami Gertz Copy Share Image
Of all the things that can have an effect on your future, I believe personal growth is the greatest. — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
Simplicity means the achievement of maximum effect with minimum means. — Koichi Kawana Copy Share Image
Religion without art is a dead system of dogmas which have no effect on life. — Anagarika Govinda Copy Share Image
A forest of all manner of trees is poor, if not disagreeable, in effect; a mass of one species of tree is… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The passion for praise, which is so very vehement in the fair sex, produces excellent effects in women of sense, who desire… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I have heard that stiff people lose something of their awkwardness under high ceilings, and in spacious halls. I think, sculptureand painting… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I don't think you can impose limits on science because the very nature of homo sapiens is that he - she -… — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
The test of all beliefs is their practical effect in life. If it be true that optimism compels the world forward, and… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
If conversation be an art, like painting, sculpture, and literature, it owes its most power charm to nature; and the least shade… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Copy Share Image
We (the Chinese) eat food for its texture, the elastic or crisp effect it has on our teeth, as well as for… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
The real purpose of welfare is to get rid of poor people entirely. Everybody knows welfare has bad effects; that's the point. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Let us learn to live coarsely, dress plainly, and lie hard. The least habit of dominion over the palate has certain good… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Genius: 1. to believe your own thought. To believe that what is true for you is ultimately true. 2. a sledgehammer. 3.… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
The only distinct meaning of the word "natural" is stated, fixed, or settled; since what is natural as much requires and presupposes… — Joseph Butler Copy Share Image
One effect of benefit-cost analysis is to give any respectable engineer or economist a means for justifying almost any kind of project… — Gilbert F. White Copy Share Image
I think what you have to realise is that our generation is the first generation since its sexual awakening has come into… — Brian Molko Copy Share Image
I have witnessed and greatly enjoyed the first act of everything which Wagner created, but the effect on me has always been… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A life which goes excessively against natural impulse is... likely to involve effects of strain that may be quite as bad as… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
One classic paper compared the effects of right-to-work laws on factory jobs in neighboring counties, on either side of a right-to-work border.… — Edward Glaeser Copy Share Image
I love the balls-to-the-walls rule-breaking approach the Beatles had in the studio (which I emulate), although I don't try to make my… — Alan Cohen Copy Share Image
Careful observation will confirm that virtually all spontaneous parapsychological events occur through some form of sleight of mind. It is invariably something… — Peter J. Carroll Copy Share Image
Global warming results not from the emission of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, but from an unusually high level of solar radiation… — Khabibullo Abdusamatov Copy Share Image
...The Court ...[recognizes]...the persistence of racial inequality and a majority's acknowledgement of Congress's authority to act affirmatively, not only to end discrimination,… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
Positive health requires a knowledge of man's primary constitution and of the powers of various foods, both those natural to them and… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
When you depart from standard usage, it should be deliberate and not an accidental lapse. Like a poet who breaks the rules… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
When a child speaks of a past life memory, the effects ripple far. At the center is the child, who is directly… — Carol Bowman Copy Share Image
Let's note, that in what I consider the most disgraceful performance abroad by an American official in my lifetime - something not… — George Will Copy Share Image
Now it must be asked if we can comprehend why comets signify the death of magnates and coming wars, for writers of… — Albertus Magnus Copy Share Image
“Personal effects: how irrelevant they are, how sad, how lost, how vagrant, without the force that gives them purpose.” — Sarah Hall Copy Share Image
When you try hard to do your best, the effect on your performance is often to jinx it. — Patricia Ryan Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, hip-hop had that effect on me, it was escape and it showed me a different way of… — Mac Miller Copy Share Image
None can believe how powerful prayer is, and what it is able to effect, but those who have learned it by experience. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
I'm very careful about violence in games. I'm not interested in creating violent effects. — Satoshi Tajiri Copy Share Image
I am definitely going to watch the Emmys this year! My makeup team is nominated for “Best Special Effects.” — Joan Rivers Copy Share Image
Joke stealing is a big deal to me, but I mean, I'm not going to investigate it if it doesn't effect me… — Greg Giraldo Copy Share Image
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