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 was frustrating about Armageddon was the time I spent not doing anything. It was a big special effects film, and I… — Steve Buscemi Copy Share Image
My life has been full of external tragedies and if they have not left any visible effect on me, I owe it… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Pretty much every issue that we've put out, there have been at least one or two things that really surprised me. It… — Lorin Stein Copy Share Image
The incentive for the outsider is to attack the system right up to the moment he is co-opted by it. The incentive… — Michael Lewis 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
I have been called an eco-designer simply because I use wood. But I am not an eco-designer, nor does the use of… — David Trubridge Copy Share Image
But as the priceless treasure too frequently hides at the bottom of well, it needs some courage to dive for it, especially… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
Since all motives at bottom are selfish and ignoble, we may judge acts and qualities only be their effects. — H. P. Lovecraft 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
Asked for a testimony to the effect that Emmy Noether was a great woman mathematician, he said: I can testify that she… — Edmund Landau Copy Share Image
I'll agonize over sentences. Mostly because you're trying to create specific effects with sentences, and because there are a number of different… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Character: The ability to carry out a worthy decision after the emotion of making that decision has passed. Character simply stated is… — Hyrum W. Smith Copy Share Image
I have a CS degree and a history that includes working as a software developer and being a computer magazine columnist back… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
There's no question that the number one contributor to climate change is livestock production. The quickest way to make an effect is… — Lisa Bloom Copy Share Image
Capitalism now seems more likely a swamp, a bog, a quicksand in which humanity is presently flailing about, unable to extricate itself,… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Phrenology is the study of the brain or how it operates, you know, the particular components that effect the nerves and the… — Black Thought 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 thing with computer-generated imagery is that it's an incredibly powerful tool for making better visual effects. But I believe in an… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
Not only do I lie, I take real pleasure in lying, in the transmission of magic effects. — Ricky Jay Copy Share Image
Contrary to any claim of a systematically “neutral” effect of taxation on production, the consequence of any such shortening of roundabout methods… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Copy Share Image
So in a sense, that little war in the Levant had a horrendous effect in terms of the stability of countries like… — Michael Scheuer Copy Share Image
Human social institutions can effect the course of human evolution. Just as climate, food supply, predators, and other natural forces of selection… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
In less than a century after the barbarian nations settled in their new conquests, almost all the effects of the knowledge and… — Bryan Ward-Perkins Copy Share Image
Always, in epochs when the languages and dialects of a culture have become outstripped by development of a practical sort, these languages… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
