I think of my body as a side effect of my mind. Like a thought I had once that manifested itself-- Oops!… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
It is an enduring truth, which can never be altered, that every infraction of the Law of nature must carry its punitive… — Thomas Troward Copy Share Image
The singing of our sacred hymns, written by the servants of God, has a powerful effect in converting people to the principles… — Heber J. Grant Copy Share Image
The biggest effect of the personal computer revolution has been to allow millions and millions of people to experience computers themselves decades… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Summer movies are spectacles; that's what you pay 10 dollars to see. You want to get teased by effects sometimes. I think… — Jan de Bont Copy Share Image
If you run into a Buddha, then that energy field, the "rad" level is so high, it's incalculable. Their effect on an… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
All Christians need an 'ecological conversion', whereby the effects of their encounter with Jesus Christ become evident in their relationship with the… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
In pursuing certain virtues - colorful local effects, personae and personality, juxtaposition, close calls with nonsense, uncertainty, critiques of ordinary language -… — Stephen Burt Copy Share Image
We all have--to put it as nicely as I can--our lower centres and our higher centres. Our lower centres act: they act… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Music may appeal to crude and coarse feelings or to refined and noble ones; and in so far as it does the… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
A monopoly granted either to an individual or to a trading company has the same effect as a secret in trade or… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
It appears to me (whether rightly or wrongly) that direct arguments against Christianity and theism produce hardly any effect on the public;… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
It is a matter of course and of absolute necessity to the conduct of business, that any discretionary businessman must be free… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
But the U.S. has to be careful. If our strategy depends on Sunnis doing the fighting to clear Mosul and Ramadi -… — David Ignatius Copy Share Image
I admire David Hare as much as I admire certainly any writer ever. What I like about his writing is it is… — Bill Nighy Copy Share Image
I think that it drives from an emotional connection with everybody that pulls you through all of those events, whether it's the… — Len Wiseman Copy Share Image
Service is the highest spiritual discipline. Prayer and meditation, or knowledge of scripture and Vedanta (holy scriptures of India), cannot help you… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
The effect of the post-Enlightenment project for human society is that all human activity is absorbed into labor. It becomes an unending… — Lesslie Newbigin Copy Share Image
Lagos has also had a particular effect on my career. I was there early, and although it was a courageous step to… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
If we simply preach the effects of redemption in the human life instead of the revealed, divine truth regarding Jesus Himself, the… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Somebody said the prospect of eminent death has a wonderful clarifying effect on the mind. And I don't know if that's true,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I look at how we got beat and I thought the hustle points and the energy points were all gauged through offensive… — Ray Allen Copy Share Image
They who have drunk beer, fall on their back, but there is a peculiarity in the effects of the drink made from… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I saw the duty and inestimable privilege _immediately_ to accept salvation by Christ. Humbly believing that through sovereign mercy and grace I… — David Livingstone Copy Share Image
All sound heard at the greatest possible distance produces one and the same effect, a vibration of the universal lyre, just as… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
For all of life's discontents, according to the pharmaceutical industry, there is a drug and you should take it. Then for the… — Marcia Angell Copy Share Image
There is a remarkable nimbleness of style, a balancing act of tone, in Voltaire, which is hard to bring off on stage.… — Mark Ravenhill Copy Share Image
On almost every issue involving postwar Iraq, [Bush's] assumptions and policies have been wrong. This strange combination of arrogance and incompetence has… — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
It is clear that a poem may be improperly brief. Undue brevity degenerates into mere epigrammatism. A very short poem, while now… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
One of the effects of modern liberal Protestantism has been gradually to turn religion into poetry and therapy, to make truth vaguer… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
I've approached music with the understanding that knowledge is available regarding tones and their effect upon the body. I think the father… — Paul Horn Copy Share Image
Not to any really influential effect, but certainly there have been comments that have surprised me. It's surprising sometimes to get particular… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
People make a big deal about podcasts but it's basically an online radio show with the sound effects and sidekicks, but because… — Bill Burr Copy Share Image
He that compares what he has done with what he has left undone, will feel the effect which must always follow the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
One of the things I think is very likely is that with the prospects of robust fiscal stimulus in response to voters… — Gary Shilling Copy Share Image
At any innocent tea-table we may easily hear a man say, "Life is not worth living." We regard it as we regard… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The old-fashioned idea is that responsibility falls upon those who borrow and lend. Money was not borrowed by campesinos, assembly plant workers,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
As an Anglo-Indian kid in Bolton, I was basically in a minority of one. That was a source of misery, but at… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
Yet it ought to be clear that a minimum wage law is, at best, a limited weapon for combatting the evil of… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I love story-writing because I can (more or less, on occasion) actually DO it. That's really the truth. I like the idea… — George Saunders Copy Share Image