Effect Quotes
2357 quotes by 1711 authors
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There’s a reason humans peg-out around eighty: prose fatigue. It looks like organ failure or cancer or stroke but it’s really just the inability to…
— Glen Duncan
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She thought she kept seeing him because she wanted to see him," Macey explained. "Ooooh," Bex and Liz sighed together. "It's a by-product of very…
— Ally Carter
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While clothes may not make the woman, they certainly have a strong effect on her self-confidence, which, I believe, does make the woman.
— Mary Kay Ash
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Will smirked, clearly pleased at the effect he was having. "I've no idea. I lost consciousness about then. I was having a lovely dream about…
— Cassandra Clare
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...joy takes a strange effect at times, it seems to oppress us almost the same as sorrow.
— Alexandre Dumas
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Depression is a side effect of dying. (Almost everything is, really).
— John Green
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Although I have been prevented by outward circumstances from observing a strictly vegetarian diet, I have long been an adherent to the cause in principle.…
— Albert Einstein
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The proverb says that 'The answer to a fool is silence'. Observation, however, indicates that almost any other answer will have the same effect in…
— Idries Shah
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I can’t hope to convey the full effect of the embraces and avowals, but I can perhaps offer a crumb of counsel. If there is…
— Christopher Hitchens
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A story once went the rounds of Israel to the effect that Ben-Gurion described me as 'the only man' in his cabinet. What amused me…
— Golda Meir
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Everyone has an effect on others. Some people inspire others to do great things. Some take people into crime with them. Those with the gift…
— Terry Goodkind
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Ivy waved her wet handkerchief, as much as to say 'words cannot possibly articulate my profound distress'. Then, because Ivy never settled for meaningful gestures…
— Gail Carriger
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I don’t think I’m making myself very clear Low,†he’d lowered his voice and the effect made goose bumps break out over my body. “I…
— Abbi Glines
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A pair of Blue Noses on the next bench glared their disapproval at Evie’s knee-length dress. Evie decided to give them a real show. She…
— Libba Bray
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Hello, Harry!†she said. “Er — my name’s Barny,†said Harry, flummoxed. “Oh, have you changed that too?†she asked brightly. “How did you know…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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There is only one difference between a bad economist and a good one: the bad economist confines himself to the visible effect; the good economist…
— Frederic Bastiat
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Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these…
— Cory Doctorow
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Worry is yet another side effect of dying.
— John Green
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The sun's nearly level with the horizon, right behind his head, making this weird halo effect around his face—as if! I'm surprised he doesn't smell…
— Karen Marie Moning
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You have to follow your own voice. You have to be yourself when you write. In effect, you have to announce, 'This is me, this…
— David Morrell
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