Effect Quotes

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The swelling and towering omnibuses, the huge trucks and wagons and carriages, the impetuous hansoms and the more sobered four-wheelers, the pony-carts, donkey-carts, hand-carts, and… — William Dean Howells
When Da Vinci wanted an effect, he willed, he planned the means to make it happen: that was the purpose of his machines. But the… — Jacob Bronowski
Judge not of actions by their mere effect; Dive to the center, and the cause detect. Great deeds from meanest springs may take their course,… — Alexander Pope
The unthinkable is that we're distorting this atmospheric balance. We're shifting the chemical balance so that we have more poisons in the atmosphere - ozones… — Michael Oppenheimer
Karma is simply the law of cause and effect in action. All moments and occurrences are caused by other moments and occurrences that preceded them… — Frederick Lenz
For those 10 months back in Afghanistan after university, I felt I had no rights. It felt like I didn't exist. It was like I… — Malina Suliman
I admire David Hare as much as I admire certainly any writer ever. What I like about his writing is it is very conscientiously, in… — Bill Nighy
I do craft songs, that this is designed. It's almost like the song was written to produce this desired effect. And it probably really works… — Ryan Adams
If you wanted to create jobs in a way that has minimal effect on the deficit but has government action, the two best things you… — William J. Clinton
Generosity is a two-edged virtue for an artist - it nourishes his imagination but has a fatal effect on his routine. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
You cannot hide any secret. If the artist succor his flagging spirits by opium or wine, his work will characterize itself as the effect of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The art of sculpture is long ago perished to any real effect... it is the game of a rude and youthful people, and not the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A nickname a man may chance to wear out; but a system of calumnity, pursued by a faction, may descend even to posterity. This principal… — Isaac D'Israeli
This party spirit has so ill an effect on our morals, it has likewise a very great one upon our judgments. — Joseph Addison
Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow. — Baruch Spinoza
In my opinion painting should be considered excellent in proportion as it approaches the effect of relief, while relief should be considered bad in proportion… — Michelangelo
Such is the effect of the grace of God in the heart of a pilgrim; while on one hand he sees the propensity of his… — John Bunyan
I'll write, because I'll give - You critics means to live; For should I not supply - The cause, the effect would die — Robert Herrick
Necessity, that great refuge and excuse for human frailty, breaks through all law; and he is not to be accounted in fault whose crime is… — Blaise Pascal
The sea possesses a power over one's moods that has the effect of a will. The sea can hypnotize. Nature in general can do so. — Henrik Ibsen
Sculpture is not the mere cutting of the form of anything in stone; it is the cutting of the effect of it. Very often the… — John Ruskin
There are a lot of doubts over the size and effect of new competitors in the cellular sector. — Antonio Machado
A sudden light transfigures a trivial thing, a weather-vane, a windmill, a winnowing flail, the dust in the barn door; a moment - and the… — Walter Pater
Of all the vices, avarice is the most generally detested; it is the effect of an avidity common to all men; it is because men… — Claude Adrien Helvetius
It would be a very bad idea... to exhibit even a small number of this new series, as the whole effect can only be achieved… — Claude Monet

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