The core practice of magic is: The execution of a willed intent to create change in the material world, which either defies,… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
The satirist isn't just looking at things ironically but militantly - he wants to change them, and intends to have an effect… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
The stultifying effect of the movies is not that the children see them but that their parents do, as if Hollywood provided… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
History more often records the brilliant successes and spectacular defeats of contending forces than the effect of war on the common people. — Mildred Cable Copy Share Image
What I do is really helping people in maximizing their income and to live the lives they want to live. I effect… — John Assaraf Copy Share Image
The inference to which we are brought is that the causes of faction cannot be removed and that relief is only to… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Before you put pen to paper, before you ring for your stenographer, decide in your own mind what effect you want to… — Robert Collier Copy Share Image
One thing I don't think that we have enough of in wine writing is the use of cause and effect. Whatever wine… — Gerald Asher Copy Share Image
James Allen says 'We curse the effect and nourish the cause.' The guy puts sand in his shoes and he can hardly… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
They find seven cornices on which penitent and redeemed sinners are cleansed by the grace of God. On the first cornice, that… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
Under none of the accredited ghostly circumstances, and environed by none of the conventional ghostly surroundings, did I first make acquaintance with… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
When music turned into being like candy - what people don't realize is, yes it's candy, but candy has long-term effects if… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
David Foster Wallace was a brilliant experimentalist who I deeply admire. His ability to do formalism helped me understand how to tackle… — Alexander Weinstein Copy Share Image
The black middle-class in America is a prosperous community that is now larger in absolute terms than the black underclass. Does its… — David Horowitz Copy Share Image
I have had a front row seat to observe Darren's success over the last few years and never fully knew the keys… — Ron White Copy Share Image
Falling stars are high examples sent To warn, not lure. Gross fancy says they are Substantial meteors; but that is not so.… — Alfred Austin Copy Share Image
A grand and almost untrodden field of inquiry will be opened, on the causes and laws of variation, on correlation of growth,… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The doctrine of a material hell in its effect was to chill and deaden the sympathies, predispose men to inflict suffering, and… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
Will a day come when our cars have carbon-fiber tubs, 18,000-rpm V-10 engines, and ground-effects tunnels? Perhaps, about the same time we… — Brock Yates Copy Share Image
I'm done with effects movies for now. When you do a movie like 'Transformers,' it can feel like you're doing three movies… — Michael Bay Copy Share Image
If I hear a really good song it's like, oh man, I want to write a song that good. But the urge… — Brett Dennen Copy Share Image
Vanity is the poison of agreeableness; yet as poison, when artfully and properly applied, has a salutary effect in medicine, so has… — Sir Fulke Greville Copy Share Image
The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to speak openly and candidly on the subject of race, and… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
Scientific research can reduce superstition by encouraging people to think and view things in terms of cause and effect. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Of all the vices, avarice is the most generally detested; it is the effect of an avidity common to all men; it… — Claude Adrien Helvetius Copy Share Image
If we begin to see how the gospel is able to change our work, it can have a profound effect on our… — David Kim Copy Share Image
Leo Strauss's discoveries in the history of political philosophy had the effect of liberating his students from the yoke of contemporary thought. — William Kristol Copy Share Image
Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for where the cause is not known the effect cannot be produced. Nature to… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Really it is very wholesome exercise, this trying to make one's words represent one's thoughts, instead of merely looking to their effect… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
The primary function of a constitution was to mark out the boundaries of governmental powers-hence in England, where there was no constitution… — Bernard Bailyn Copy Share Image
The truth is that we all need repentance. If we are capable of reason and past the age of eight, we all… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
As an entrepreneur you have responsibilities in trying to operate well in what you have to do. There is a positive effect… — John Elkann Copy Share Image
I very much miss trying cases - I knew that I made a difference in the world working with crimes directly and… — Nancy Grace Copy Share Image
You don't really realize the effect those things have on you when you're growing up but then when you look back you… — Robbie Lawler Copy Share Image
Except for some effects that I attribute mostly to age, my intuitive thinking is just as prone to overconfidence, extreme predictions, and… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Enough generations of socialist policies have now passed for us to judge their effects. They are bleak. Socialism undermines the character of… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
Work a great deal at evening effects, lamplight, candlelight, etc. The intriguing thing is not to show the source of the light… — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
I felt the strange brooding lonely presence of Nature fostering a new race, a new age, and as part of it, a… — Lawren Harris Copy Share Image
The likely economic effects [of the war in Iraq] would be relatively small... Under every plausible scenario, the negative effect will be… — Lawrence B. Lindsey Copy Share Image
My father was a civil servant in northern India where I was born. As a boy I saw the dire effects of… — Naveen Jain Copy Share Image