Effect Quotes

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It was one of those cases where you approve the broad, general principle of an idea but can't help being in a bit of a… — P.G. Wodehouse
Quote from CARE OF THE SOUL...Thomas Moore ...to the soul, the most minute details and the most ordinary activities, carried out with mindfullness and art,… — Thomas Moore
It is not true that the English invented cricket as a way of making all other human endeavors look interesting and lively; that was merely… — Bill Bryson
I think about how truly interesting and odd it is that when a woman marries, traditionally she loses her name, becoming absorbed by the husband's… — A.M. Homes
God is more powerful than anybody's past, no matter how wretched. He can make us forget - not by erasing the memory but by taking… — Jim Cymbala
I hope we once again have reminded people that man is not free unless government is limited. There's a clear cause and effect here that… — Ronald Reagan
But Margaret went less abroad, among machinery and men; saw less of power in its public effect, and, as it happened, she was thrown with… — Elizabeth Gaskell
For both of us, I think, it had to do with our weakened power to love. It is strange that enslavement should have that effect… — Martin Amis
If you confront anyone who has lied with the truth, he will usually admit it - often out of sheer surprise. It is only necessary… — Agatha Christie
Ours is a system of corporate socialism, where companies capitalize their profits and socialize their lossesâ€¦in effect, they tax you for their accidents, bungling, boondoggles,… — Ralph Nader
By the time the last few notes fade, his hope will be restored, but each time he's force to resort to the Adagio it becomes… — Steven Galloway
An ad that pretends to be art is -- at absolute best -- like somebody who smiles warmly at you only because he wants something… — David Foster Wallace
Imagine a society that subjects people to conditions that make them terribly unhappy then gives them the drugs to take away their unhappiness. Science fiction… — Theodore Kaczynski
Jad said, "The leakage was forcing choices, the making of which in no way improved matters." Okay. So we were, in effect, locked in a… — Neal Stephenson
It is the history of our kindnesses that alone make this world tolerable. If it were not for that, for the effect of kind words,… — Robert Louis Stevenson
If the heart be chiefly and directly fixed on God, and the soul engaged to glorify him, some degree of religious affection will be the… — Jonathan Edwards
It did occur to me that the effect of good literature may be as dizzying as that of alcohol. — Pamela Dean
[Happiness is] a ghost, itâ€™s a shadow. You canâ€™t really chase it. Itâ€™s a by-product, a very pleasant side effect to a life lived well. — Eric Weiner
Ordinary people waited till life disclosed to them its secrets, but to the few, to the elect, the mysteries of life were revealed before the… — Oscar Wilde
Alas...I too have known love, that ruler of hearts, that soul of our soul: it's never brought me anything except one kiss and twenty kicks… — Voltaire

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