Effect Quotes
2357 quotes by 1774 authors
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Looks like what drives me crazy Don't have no effect on you-- But I'm gonna keep on at it Till it drives you crazy, too.
— Langston Hughes
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When prescribing one of the drugs I take, my doctor warned me of a common side effect: exaggerated, intensely vivid dreams. To be honest, I've…
— Michael J. Fox
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Everything else you see and experience in this world is effect, and that includes your feelings. The cause is always your thoughts.
— Rhonda Byrne
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Some guys-a lot of guys-don't believe what they are seeing, especially if it gets in the way of what they want to eat or drink…
— Stephen King
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We are all imprisoned by the dictionary. We choose out of that vast, paper-walled prison our convicts, the little black printed words, when in truth…
— Mervyn Peake
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Pain is the feeling. Suffering is the effect the pain inflicts. If one can endure pain, one can live without suffering. If one can withstand…
— James Frey
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I am like a snake who has already bitten. I retreat from a direct battle while knowing the slow effect of the poison.
— Anais Nin
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Authority is a solvent of humanity: look at any husband, any father of a family,and note the absorption of the person by the persona, the…
— Patrick O'Brian
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Do not, therefore, say "I feel nauseous," unless you are sure you have that effect on others.
— William Strunk, Jr.
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Paper money has had the effect in your state that it will ever have, to ruin commerce, oppress the honest, and open the door to…
— George Washington
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If goodness has causes, it is not goodness; if it has effects, a reward, it is not goodness either. So goodness is outside the chain…
— Leo Tolstoy
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Ironically enough, in the same way that fear brings to pass what one is afraid of, likewise a forced intention makes impossible what one forcibly…
— Viktor E. Frankl
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You’re here.†“I am.†Jason boldly took in the way she looked. “I take it you don’t often wear that dress in court.†“Probably not…
— Julie James
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Official morality has always been oppressive and negative: it has said "thou shalt not," and has not troubled to investigate the effect of activities not…
— Bertrand Russell
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...being human always points, and is directed, to something, or someone, other than oneself—be it meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter. The…
— Viktor E. Frankl
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Those [things] that we encounter for the first time immediately have a spiritual effect upon us. A child, for whom every object is new, experiences…
— Wassily Kandinsky
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When K. looked at the castle, often it seemed to him as if he were observing someone who sat quietly there in front of him…
— Franz Kafka
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It has always seemed to me that so long as you produce your dramatic effect, accuracy of detail matters little. I have never striven for…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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I can't think why fancy religions should have such a ghastly effect on one's grammar. It's a kind of intellectual rot that sets in, I'm…
— Dorothy L. Sayers
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But let there be no misunderstanding: it is not that a real man, the object of knowledge, philosophical reflection or technological intervention, has been substituted…
— Michel Foucault
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