Affect Quotes
963 quotes by 848 authors
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Last weekend a young man asked me how I remain so positive. “It seems all the negativity in the world doesn’t affect you,†he said.…
— Jason Mraz
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You're different. You're more perfect. Time is three things for most people, but for you, for us, just one. A singularity. One moment. This moment.…
— Jonathan Nolan
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And now a chill settled over them where they stood, and Harry heard the rasping breath of the dementors that patrolled the outer trees. They…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Any man who tries to excite class hatred, sectional hate, hate of creeds, any kind of hatred in our community, though he may affect to…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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A nation that does not read much does not know much. And a nation that does not know much is more likely to make poor…
— Jim Trelease
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The choices you make now, the people you surround yourself with, they all have the potential to affect your life, even who you are, forever.
— Sarah Dessen
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The present moment, though, is outside of time, it’s Eternity. In India they use the word “karma†for lack of any better term. But it’s…
— Paulo Coelho
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How we live our lives does not,unfortunately depend on us alone.Circumstances,good or bad,constantly intervene.A person close to us die.A person not so close to us…
— Tariq Ali
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Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.
— Stephen Covey
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Holly frowned at her. "Glad to see you've forgiven yourself so quickly." "Harboring feelings of guilt can have a negative affect on mental health." "Child…
— Eoin Colfer
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Young men often laugh at the sensible girls whom they secretly respect, and affect to admire the silly ones whom they secretly despise, because earnestness,…
— Louisa May Alcott
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Without pain, how could we know joy?' This is an old argument in the field of thinking about suffering and its stupidity and lack of…
— John Green
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...hideous psychic fallout they'd all endured both in active marijuana-dependency and then in marijuana-detox: the social isolation, anxious lassitude, and the hyperself-consciousness that then reinforced…
— David Foster Wallace
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Lord Macon deposited his wife into a chair and then knelt next to her, clutching one of her hands. "Tell me truthfully - how are…
— Gail Carriger
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Lonely people tend, rather, to be lonely because they decline to bear the psychic costs of being around other humans. They are allergic to people.…
— David Foster Wallace
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Oh child, your language is so utterly simple and limited that it has the affect of extreme complication. -Aunt Beast
— Madeleine L'Engle
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Humans don't exist on the same level as immortals. They can't even be hurt by our weapons. But you,Percy - you are part god,part human.You…
— Rick Riordan
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I’ll affect you slowly as if you were having a picnic in a dream. There will be no ants. It won’t rain.
— Richard Brautigan
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There’s nothing more embarrassing than a person who tries to guess what the great American public would like, makes a compromise for the first time,…
— Tom Waits
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I didn't understand that when you make love, you actually do MAKE love. Stir things. Affect each other. The breath that escapes from me is…
— Jenny Downham
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