Effect Quotes

2357 quotes by 1774 authors

All buildings, large or small, public or private, have a public face, a facade; they therefore, without exception, have a positive or negative effect on… — Leon Krier
All history is only one long story to this effect: men have struggled for power over their fellow-men in order that they might win the… — William Graham Sumner
I never saw my mother happy with me and proud of me for doing something: She only knew me as being a wild kid running… — Mike Tyson
I have found a paper of mine among some others in which I call architecture 'petrified music.' Really there is something in this; the tone… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I like to call someone a raving c**t every now and then, when itâ€™s appropriate, for effect (...) â€˜You cocksucker.â€™ I love that kind of… — Andrew Breitbart
Art is not ideology. It is completely impossible to explain art on the basis of the homological relation that it is supposed to maintain with… — Alain Badiou
When the supreme magistrate will not execute the judgment of the Lord, those who made him supreme magistrate, under God, who have under God, sovereighn… — Samuel Rutherford
The difficulty with humorists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don't; whichever seems likelier to win an effect. — John Updike
The inevitable effect of a biographer's hindsight is to belittle the subject's foresight. — Clive James
Your believing or not believing in karma has no effect on its existence, nor on its consequences to you. Just as a refusal to believe… — F. Paul Wilson
And once again I think about how people use the devil as an alias for the things they fear. The cause and effect is backward.… — David Levithan
Few things are so liberally bestowed, or squandered with so little effect, as good advice. — Samuel Johnson
When you know that something's going to happen, you'll start trying to see signs of its approach in just about everything. Always try to remember… — David Eddings
Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. The sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed. The… — Guillaume Apollinaire
The values of the world we inhabit and the people we surround ourselves with have a profound effect on who we are. — Malcolm Gladwell
Most people have learned to live in the moment. The argument goes that if the past has uncertain effect on the present, there is no… — Alan Lightman
[It] was written and sold. I knew it was a strong story because I cared about it and believed in it. I had no idea… — Orson Scott Card
At the time Gothic cathedrals were designed, most people lived in dark huts, so just walking into a space vastly larger than what they were… — Michael Persinger
Let not men then in the pride of power, use the same arguments that tyrannic kings and venal ministers have used, and fallaciously assert that… — Mary Wollstonecraft
We may note in passing that He (Jesus) was never regarded as a mere moral teacher. He did not produce that effect on any of… — C.S. Lewis

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