The only treaties that ought to count are those which would effect a settlement between ulterior motives. — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
Greatness is not the effect of which inspiration is the cause. We are all inspired, but we are all not great. — Ned Rorem Copy Share Image
Visual-effects shots should flow into the rest of the live action, and you shouldn't be able to see a difference. — John Knoll Copy Share Image
Great works of the imagination are not produced quickly nor do they take quick effect on the popular mind. — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
The sole purpose and effect of it is to exclude persecution and to secure the important right of religious liberty. — Oliver Ellsworth Copy Share Image
But that's a side effect of alcohol, isn't it? Stopping to think about other people is not on the bar menu. — A.S. King Copy Share Image
Frankly, I do not know how to effect a permanency in American foreign policy. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Pressure on nerves causes irriatation and tension with deranged functions as a result. Why not release the pressure? Why not adjust the… — Daniel D. Palmer Copy Share Image
The web is more a social creation than a technical one. I designed it for a social effect — to help people… — Tim Berners-Lee Copy Share Image
Forget all the equipment, forget the music, at the end of the day it's just literally frequencies and their effects on your… — Aphex Twin Copy Share Image
Dick Mills was in charge of sound effects and all the rest then, and he put the voice through a ring modulator… — John Leeson Copy Share Image
Rewards can deliver a short-term boost—just as a jolt of caffeine can keep you cranking for a few more hours. But the… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That's why… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Religion is a belief in supernatural entities or forces that have an effect on the natural world - A belief in forces… — Greta Christina Copy Share Image
Next time you're stunned by a large moon on the horizon, bend over and view it between your legs. The effect goes… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I presume that nobody will deny the positive aspects of the North American cultural world. These are well known to all. But… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
There are things in our lives that take up an enormous importance and that become very dominant effects in our biography. And… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
What a sublime idea of the infinite might of the great Architect, the Cause of all causes, the Father of all fathers,… — August Weismann Copy Share Image
The past is a trail you leave behind, much like the wake of a speedboat. That is, it's a vanishing trail temporarily… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
Part of the triumph of modernist poetry is, indeed, to have demonstrated the great extent to which verse can do without explicit… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness. Where we find a heroic life appearing as the… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
You also want to look at how the tax system encourages and rewards pension saving. I have set as an ambition reversing… — George Osborne Copy Share Image
Until recently we’ve only been able to speculate about story's persuasive effects. But over the last several decades psychology has begun a… — Jonathan Gottschall Copy Share Image
THE NINETEENTH CENTURY SPREAD OF CHRISTIANITY WAS DUE PRIMARILY TO A NEW BURST OF RELIGIOUS LIFE EMANATING FROM THE CHRISTIAN IMPULSE. .… — Kenneth Scott Latourette Copy Share Image
What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when… — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
Inform yourself about animal issues, and listen to different perspectives on how to help animals. Don't latch onto the first opinion that… — Mark Middleton Copy Share Image
Of course, there are also faculty who are discouraged from speaking critically about social issues because of the increasing assumption in American… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
After years spent trying to deal with the effects of COINTELPRO, my rage at the FBI's almost unimaginable evil remains undiminished because… — William Kunstler Copy Share Image
Perhaps basketball and poetry have just a few things in common, but the most important is the possibility of transcendence. The opposite… — Stephen Dunn Copy Share Image
As in the game of billiards, the balls are constantly producing effects from mere chance, which the most skillful player could neither… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Man is merely a frequent effect, a monstrosity is a rare one, but both are equally natural, equally inevitable, equally part of… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The damage that we do in the service of whatever motivates us in life has a direct effect, mostly on our kids. — Oren Moverman Copy Share Image
The New Testament has had a really powerful effect on how I write and how I live my life. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
The internal effects of a mutable policy are still more calamitous. It poisons the blessings of liberty itself. — James Madison Copy Share Image
You can go outside and spit and have the same effect as doubling carbon dioxide. — Reid Bryson Copy Share Image
Society is a sort of organism on the growth of which conscious efforts can exercise little effect. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
I read neither good nor bad about me. I let it not even in my life, so it has no effect on… — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
Insure the uninsured. Effect of Obamacare to date: Uninsure the insured, — Brit Hume Copy Share Image
The effect produced by a short story depends almost entirely on its form. — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
