Judge not of actions by their mere effect; Dive to the center, and the cause detect. Great deeds from meanest springs may… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
What I am arguing, in effect, is that the full democratic system of the second half of the fifth century B.C. would… — Moses Finley Copy Share Image
The budget targets imposed by the Bretton Woods institutions, combined with the effects of the devaluation, trigger the collapse of public investment. — Michel Chossudovsky Copy Share Image
No effort is complete without prayer - without definite recognition that the best human endeavor is of no effect if it has… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I'm a big believer in playing truth and not doing things for effect. It's not about whether you look pretty or glamorous.… — Aneurin Barnard Copy Share Image
Fine taste is an aspect of genius itself, and is the faculty of delicate appreciation, which makes the best effects of art… — Nathaniel Parker Willis Copy Share Image
Fear is a great robber of power. It paralyzes the thinking faculties, ruins spontaneity, enthusiasm, and self confidence. It has a blighting… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
The strength of women and women's rights around the world are especially important because that affects children and families. And the cascade… — Cindy McCain Copy Share Image
I'm on 'Two and a Half Men,' and I don't want to be on it. Please stop watching it, please stop filling… — Angus T. Jones Copy Share Image
A sudden light transfigures a trivial thing, a weather-vane, a windmill, a winnowing flail, the dust in the barn door; a moment… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
The passions do very often give birth to others of a nature most contrary to their own. Thus avarice sometimes brings forth… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Usually, when special effects get in the way, it's because the story isn't strong enough. If you don't start with a strong… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
Science can have a purifying effect on religion, freeing it from beliefs of a pre-scientific age and helping us to a truer… — Nevill Francis Mott Copy Share Image
We recognize the force of the argument that the effects of war under modern conditions may be felt in the economy for… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
The will of God prevails. In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Scientists are coming to recognise the effects of the mind on physical health. The sense of relaxation associated with inner peace involves… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The fortitude of a Christian consists in patience, not in enterprises which the poets call heroic, and which are commonly the effects… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Over the years, he [Everett Dirksen] developed a style of infinitely subtle fustian, whose effect can still be remotely approximated by sipping… — Lance Morrow Copy Share Image
The best road to correct reasoning is by physical science; the way to trace effects to causes is through physical science; the… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
It's about moments in life that are great but don't last. They don't go on, but you always have the memory and… — Sofia Coppola Copy Share Image
Capitalism would self-destruct in no time. So the business classes have always demanded strong, straight intervention to protect the society from the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
You see, he knew his own laws just as other people so often know the laws: by words, not by effects. They… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
CGI is done after the film is done. It's through the computer. Most of the film is not computer-generated special effects. Most… — Sanaa Lathan Copy Share Image
Having spent a substantial part of my career parodying religious figures from my own Christian background, I am aghast at the notion… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
If this is neither my own badness, nor an effect of my own badness, and the common weal is not injured, why… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Not only do we have a right to be happy, we have an obligation to be happy because our happiness has an… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The laws of nature are the rules according to which the effects are produced; but there must be a cause which operates… — Thomas Reid Copy Share Image
A true life lived amongst the people is in itself an object-lesson that must produce its own effect upon immediate surroundings. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I'm not sure what Essiac does to extend cancer survival, and for all we know it may not have this effect. On… — Abram Hoffer Copy Share Image
The chief effect of talk on any subject is to strengthen one's own opinions, and, in fact, one never knows exactly what… — Charles Dudley Warner Copy Share Image
As gang members, as young dudes in the streets, especially in L.A., we're the effect of a situation. We didn't wake up… — Nipsey Hussle Copy Share Image
Religion is the worst thing that ever happened to mankind - the ironic part is that it's presented as a good thing,… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
One great effect of prayer is that it enables the soul to command the body. By obedience I make my body submissive… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
The first film I made was when I was 13 and it was called 'The Dogs That Ate Detroit.' It starred my… — Les Claypool Copy Share Image
Framing effects can be very influential, and to the degree that you can think of a task as close rather than distant,… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
The Brady Bill's only effect will be to desensitize the public to regulation of weapons in preparation for their ultimate confiscation. — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery increases man's ability to predict the consequences of… — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image
A nickname a man may chance to wear out; but a system of calumnity, pursued by a faction, may descend even to… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
The belief that time is a linear, directed sequence running from A to B is a modern illusion. In fact, it can… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The effect of sincerity is to give one's work the character of a protest. The painter, being concerned only with conveying his… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
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