Effect Quotes
2357 quotes by 1774 authors
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Art is a tool that isnt used enough to effect change.
— Mattias Klum
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Molecular biology has shown that even the simplest of all living systems on the earth today, bacterial cells, are exceedingly complex objects. Although the tiniest…
— Michael Denton
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The link between literacy and revolutions is a well-known historical phenomenon. The three great revolutions of modern European history -- the English, the French and…
— Orlando Figes
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It would be difficult to convince me that leaning has no effect whatsoever on the outcome of my bowling.
— Amy Krouse Rosenthal
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People often criticize my films for being pessimistic; there are certainly many reasons for being pessimistic but I don’t see my films that way. They’re…
— Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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They put the thing down your throat so you don't swallow your tongue, and they put electrodes on your head. That's what was recommended in…
— Lou Reed
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We will not accept any...coexistence with Israel...Today the issue is not the establishment of peace between the Arab states and Israel....The war with Israel is…
— Gamal Abdel Nasser
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Writing cant change the world overnight, but writing may have an enormous effect over time, over the long haul.
— Leslie Marmon Silko
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Like the pain of a bad wound, the effect of a deep shock takes some while to be felt. When a child is told, for…
— Richard Adams
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My work disturbs people and nobody wants to be disturbed. They are not fully aware of the effect my work has on them, but they…
— Louise Bourgeois
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A work of art does not need an explanation. The work has to speak for itself. The work may be subject to many interpretations, but…
— Louise Bourgeois
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It became very clear that Hanoi was in effect strategically running the Viet Cong operation.
— William Westmoreland
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Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I was warned to stop smoking, which I did, for two or three days, but it was too lonesome, and I have resumed - in…
— Mark Twain
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...deficit consumption is, in effect, drawing down on the capital entitlements of future generations
— Jonathon Porritt
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Art is the effort of man to express the ideas which nature suggests to him of a power above nature, whether that power be within…
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Take not God's name in vain; select a time when it will have effect.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Seek the strongest color effect possible... the content is of no importance.
— Henri Matisse
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For it is with the mysteries of our religion, as with wholesome pills for the sick, which swallowed whole, have the virtue to cure; but…
— Thomas Hobbes
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The worst effect of sin is within and is manifest not in poverty, and pain, and bodily defacement, but in the discrowned faculties, the unworthy…
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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