Effect Quotes

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While it is true that most people never see or understand the difference they make, or sometimes only imagine their actions having a tiny effect,… — Andy Andrews
If one makes a mistake, then an apology is usually sufficient to get things back on an even keel. However-and this is a big â€˜howeverâ€™-… — Andy Andrews
The first effect of emancipation from the Church was not to make men think rationally, but to open their minds to every sort of antique… — Bertrand Russell
The nowadays ruling that no word is unprintable has, I think, done nothing whatever for beautiful letters. The boys have gone hog-wild with liberty, yet… — Dorothy Parker
And Dorothea..she had no dreams of being praised above other women. Feeling that there was always something better which she might have done if she… — George Eliot
Nice to know I have that effect on boys. I mean, Christopher doesn't even know I exist, and Brandon Stark practically throws up when he… — Meg Cabot
But, drawn to her at that moment, he felt a quiet like the voice of the rain flow over him. He knew well enough that… — Yasunari Kawabata
Hope can be imagined as a domino effect, a chain reaction, each increment making the next increase more feasible... There are moments of fear and… — Jerome Groopman
For I found myself embarrassed with so many doubts and errors that it seemed to me that the effort to instruct myself had no effect… — Rene Descartes
This progressive effacement of human relationships is not without certain problems for the novel. How, in point of fact, would one handle the narration of… — Michel Houellebecq
You show the world as a complete, unbroken chain, an eternal chain, linked together by cause and effect. — Hermann Hesse
I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural… — Jane Austen
No doubt it is true that there is more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner repented than over all the saints who consistently remain holy,… — Booth Tarkington
Part of the job of being human is to consistently underestimate our effect on other people... — Lucy Grealy
For it was Saturday night, the best and bingiest glad-time of the week, one of the fifty-two holidays in the slow-turning Big Wheel of the… — Alan Sillitoe
When, indeed, men speak of Beauty, they mean, precisely, not a quality, as is supposed, but an effect - they refer, in short, just to… — Edgar Allan Poe
To suppose that whatever God requireth of us that we have power of ourselves to do, is to make the cross and grace of Jesus… — John Owen
Science manipulates things and gives up living in them. It makes its own limited models of things; operating upon these indices or variables to effect… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty
The alcohol had the effect of making the black cloth blacker. This amused her; she had noted in her journal: "booze affects material as it… — Alice Sebold
Many people entertain the idea that Christianity,like almost any other religion,is basically a system of beliefs-you know, a set of doctrines or a code of… — Josh McDowell

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