In fact, it is because the nature of prayer is so personal and can have such a powerful effect on a community… — Barbara Brandriff Crabb Copy Share Image
Most of the oils which are valued as scents are mixtures of substances; only the combined effect of these leads to the… — Otto Wallach Copy Share Image
Today, the people who would use guns to violate rights have little trouble getting them, while those who would use them to… — Sheldon Richman Copy Share Image
In my opinion painting should be considered excellent in proportion as it approaches the effect of relief, while relief should be considered… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
I call it "the big picture effect." Getting to see earth as a small planet and to see it in that perspective,… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
How deep a wound to morals and social purity has that accursed article of the celibacy of the clergy been! Even the… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Heaven often regulates effects by their causes, and pays the wicked what they have deserved. — Pierre Corneille Copy Share Image
My pain is usually caused by some sort of attack on my ego. So usually, pain is an indication of something that,… — Alex Ebert Copy Share Image
Men should soon make up their minds to be forgotten, and look about them, or within them, for some higher motive in… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Diplomacy is much like the "lovemaking of elephants", which is accompanied with a lot of bellowing and other sound effects, but no… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
One of the most unfortunate side effects of the urban activism of the '60s and '70s is the belief that development is… — Alex Steffen Copy Share Image
After a prosperous, but to me very wearisome, voyage, we came at last into port. Immediately on landing I got together my… — Adelbert von Chamisso Copy Share Image
But poverty, with most who whimper forth Their long complaints, is self-inflicted woe; The effect of laziness, or sottish write. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
The physiological combustion theory takes as its starting point the fundamental principle that the amount of heat that arises from the combustion… — Robert Mayer Copy Share Image
The worst side effect of wealth is the social associations it forces on its victims, as people with big houses end up… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
The more our hearts and minds are turned to assisting others less fortunate than we, the more we will avoid the spiritually… — Joe J. Christensen Copy Share Image
Internal and external nature, mind and matter, are in time and space, and are bound by the law of causation. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Changes in clouds and rainfall can overwhelm what little effect CO2-water vapour has on temperature. — Willie Soon Copy Share Image
Laugh often. Starting your day with a good laugh, or at least a big smile, is as beneficial to your health as… — Harvey Mackay Copy Share Image
The rich will strive to establish their dominion and enslave the rest. They always did...they always will. They will have the same… — Gouverneur Morris Copy Share Image
Although I have never been 100 lbs overweight, I know the effects of not feeling comfortable in my own skin. — Kim Lyons Copy Share Image
When a man receives something Divine, in his heart he rejoices; but when he receives something diabolic, he is disturbed. The Christian… — Seraphim of Sarov Copy Share Image
I grew up loving films and making stupid movies with a good friend of mine, who now actually has a career in… — D.J. Cotrona Copy Share Image
Accurate processing of information about outcomes is no simple task under the variable conditions of everyday life . . . usually, many… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
There is a rowdy strain in American life, living close to the surface but running very deep. Like an ape behind a… — Bruce Catton Copy Share Image
The idea that addiction is somehow a psychological illness is, I think, totally ridiculous. It's as psychological as malaria. It's a matter… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Systems are to be appreciated by their general effects, and not by particular exceptions. — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
When you're dealing with something sensitive, which is about culture, and its effect on a generation, you don't want any stones not… — Steve Stoute Copy Share Image
Reincarnation is not an exclusively Hindu or Buddhist concept, but it is part of the history of human origin. It is proof… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, The End of Nature turns out to be correct, although I wish it were not so. The only places that I… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Like millions of others, I have been plagued by the devastating effects of cancer hitting not one, but multiple members of my… — Tom DeLonge Copy Share Image
Is civilization progress? The challenge, I think, is clear; and, as clearly, the final answer will be given not by our amassing… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
People regulate their level and distribution of effort in accordance with the effects they expect their actions to have. As a result,… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
Every other movie is one of those action things. I mean, 'Lost in Space'? A bunch of good actors running around shooting… — Tom Berenger Copy Share Image
The children don't choose to be in the business, but the harming and long-term effects through arguments, divorce and conflicts over the… — Robert Irvine Copy Share Image
I'm frustrated with Hollywood and television and the movies because they see science fiction as an excuse for eye candy, for lots… — David Gerrold Copy Share Image
I think that having good data, good statistics-and the United States generally has better macroeconomic statistics than most countries-and having good economists… — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
...any effect to be successful must first be founded upon a simple method and then be performed with a direct to-the-point presentation. — Theodore Annemann Copy Share Image
