Effect Quotes

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Life is not made of atoms,it is merely built out of them. What life is actually 'made of' is cycles of cause and effect, loops… — Steve Grand
Control is as much an effect as a cause, and the idea that control is something you exert is a real handicap to progress — Steve Grand
The sound of distant breakers made her heart ache with melancholy. She was in the mood when the sea has a saddening effect upon the… — Baroness Orczy
So that, in effect, religion, which should most distinguish us from beasts, and ought most peculiarly to elevate us, as rational creatures, above brutes, is… — John Locke
Kay was older and bigger than the Wart, so that he was bound to win in the end, but he was more nervous and imaginative.… — T.H. White
A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus: 1. What am I trying to say? 2.… — George Orwell
Economics is a study of cause-and-effect relationships in an economy. It's purpose is to discern the consequences of various ways of allocating resources which have… — Thomas Sowell
I didn't seem to have that effect on anyone but it would have been a waste for both of us to be saints. — Meg Rosoff
Then others for breath of words respect, Me for my dumb thoughts, speaking in effect. — William Shakespeare
The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self activity. — Thomas Carlyle
Imagine how our own families, let alone the world, would change if we vowed to keep faith with one another, strengthen one another, look for… — Gordon B. Hinckley
He looked at her an instant, for the effect of the graceful girlish figure with pale, passionate face and dark eyes full of sorrow, pride… — Louisa May Alcott
You can never know if a person forgives you when you wrong them. Therefore it is existentially important to you. It is a question you… — Jostein Gaarder
When we both experienced the love that consumes, we shared in the Absolute. The Absolute shows each of us who we really are; it is… — Paulo Coelho
Under the discipline of unity, knowledge and morality come together. No longer can we have that paltry 'objective' knowledge so prized by the academic specialists.… — Wendell Berry
How many times have I wondered if it is really possible to forge links with a mass of people when one has never had strong… — Antonio Gramsci
For although we know that the years pass, that youth gives way to old age, that fortunes and thrones crumble (even the most solid among… — Marcel Proust
it seemed to me that I had never met another person on earth as discouraging to my happiness as my father. and it appeared that… — Charles Bukowski
A noble and God-like character is not a thing of favor or chance, but is the natural result of continued effort in right thinking, the… — James Allen
A man becomes calm in the measure that he understands himself as a thought-evolved being. For such knowledge necessitates the understanding of others as the… — James Allen

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