Effect Quotes
2357 quotes by 1774 authors
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You have killed my love. You used to stir my imagination. Now you don't even stir my curiosity. You simply produce no effect. I loved…
— Oscar Wilde
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Romantic literature is in effect imaginative lying.
— Oscar Wilde
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Dress loose,take a great deal of exercise ,and be particular about your diet and sleep sound enough,the body has a great effect on the mind.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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The pause - that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, howsoever…
— Mark Twain
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Isn't it sad that you can tell people that the ozone layer is being depleted, the forests are being cut down, the deserts are advancing…
— Isaac Asimov
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LSD was an incredible experience. Not that I’m recommending it for anybody else; but for me it kind of – it hammered home to me…
— Alan Moore
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I don’t know. After the downstairs, I assumed something creepier and dirtier.†I shrugged. “You didn’t have electricity down there.†“It’s for dramatic effect.†Loki…
— Amanda Hocking
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If you want to achieve your objectives, you have to be prepared for a daily dose of pain or discomfort. At first, it's unpleasant and…
— Paulo Coelho
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A philosopher is a lover of wisdom, not of knowledge, which for all its great uses ultimately suffers from the crippling effect of ephemerality. All…
— Shashi Tharoor
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She wore tight corsets to give her a teeny waist - I helped her lace them up - but they had the effect of causing…
— Jeannette Walls
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Somehow the idea of Montgomery as a fairy doesn't have the same effect on me as it appears to have on you. -Raphael
— Nalini Singh
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Perhaps all the questions we ask of love, to measure, test, probe, and save it, have the additional effect of cutting it short.
— Milan Kundera
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Authentic faith leads us to treat others with unconditional seriousness and to a loving reverence for the mystery of the human personality. Authentic Christianity should…
— Brennan Manning
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Blot your misdeeds out (if you are particularly conscientious), by a good deed, as soon as you can; just as we did a correct sum…
— Elizabeth Gaskell
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Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye.
— Samuel Johnson
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Barrons’ lips twitched. I’d almost made him smile. Barrons smiles about as often as the sun comes out in Dublin, and it has the same…
— Karen Marie Moning
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Further, Dr. Gold said with a straight face, the pill at optimum dosage could have the side effect of impotence. Until that moment, although I'd…
— William Styron
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Have a care how you speak to me, Imp. Doubtless he meant to sound threatening, but that absurd wisp of a mustache ruined the effect.
— George R. R. Martin
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I pictured the two of them alone. Perhaps showering together, as Rome and I liked to do. My stomach clenched painfully, amusement forgotten. “Cody, will…
— Gena Showalter
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Dark matter has a gravitation effect on other objects. You can't see it, you can't feel it, but you can watch something being pulled in…
— Jodi Picoult
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