Effect Quotes

2357 Effect quotes by 1711 unique authors

We have in effect renounced our Worldly citizenship when we receive the King of Kings and the Prince of Peace, Lord of Lords, God of… — David Berg
Americans cannot escape a certain responsibility for what is done in our name around the world. In a democracy, even one as corrupted as ours,… — Mark Hertsgaard
If the greenhouse effect is a blanket in which we wrap ourselves to keep warm, nuclear winter kicks the blanket off. — Carl Sagan
The instinct of brutes and insects can be the effect of nothing else than the wisdom and skill of a powerful ever-living agent. — Isaac Newton
The plough is to the farmer what the wand is to the sorcerer. Its effect is really like sorcery. — Thomas Jefferson
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

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