Effect Quotes
2357 quotes by 1774 authors
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The illness of a doctor is always worse than the illnesses of his patients.The patients only feel, but the doctor, as well as feeling, has…
— Maxim Gorky
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The last thing we learn about ourselves is our effect.
— William Boyd
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I think....you still have no idea. The effect you can have.
— Suzanne Collins
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All around the dining hall, you can feel the rejuvenating effect that a good meal can bring on. The way it can make people kinder,…
— Suzanne Collins
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After... The seas have dried out The trains have come to a shrieking holt The hounds of the abyss cease to howl The prisons have…
— Henry Rollins
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Oh, ma petite, you are growing gargantuan." I looked at him and it was not a friendly look. "Never tease a woman about her weight,…
— Laurell K. Hamilton
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It was love, she thought, love that never clutch its object; but, like the love which mathematicians bear their symbols, or poets their phrases, was…
— Virginia Woolf
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Humans! They lived in a world where the grass continued to be green and the sun rose every day and flowers regularly turned into fruit,…
— Terry Pratchett
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You really shouldn’t do that to people," I criticized. "It’s hardly fair." "Do what?" "Dazzle them like that – she’s probably hyperventilating in the kitchen…
— Stephenie Meyer
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The CDO was, in effect, a credit laundering service for the residents of Lower Middle Class America. For Wall Street it was a machine that…
— Michael Lewis
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People are continually pointing out to me the wretchedness of white people in order to console me for the wretchedness of blacks. But an itemized…
— James A. Baldwin
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The Expulsion from Paradise is eternal in its principal aspect: this makes it irrevocable, and our living in this world inevitable, but the eternal nature…
— Franz Kafka
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I must start at the beginning, if I can find it. Beginnings are elusive things. Just when you think you have hold of one, you…
— Hillary Jordan
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Instead of satisfying me, the kisses have the opposite effect, of make my need greater. I thought I was something of an expert on hunger,…
— Suzanne Collins
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From a tale one expects a bit of wildness, of exaggeration and dramatic effect. The tale has no inherent concern with decorum, balance or harmony.…
— Peter Straub
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It [the scarlet letter] had the effect of a spell, taking her out of the ordinary relations with humanity, and enclosing her in a sphere…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Clever's not enough to hold me - I want characters who are more than devices to be moved about for Effect.
— Laura Anne Gilman
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There is no place for government to prohibit consumers from buying products the effect of which will be to harm themselves
— Milton Friedman
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Almost all the people who’ve had the most effect on me I seem to have met by chance, yet looking back it seems as though…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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You know these things as thoughts, but your thoughts are not your experiences, they are an echo and after-effect of your experiences: as when your…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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