300 Quotes on Effect

• One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression.

  Author: Howard Zinn

• It was not simply out of a spirit of contradiction that I exposed a light source to magnetic forces. The idea came to me during an investigation of the effect discovered by Kerr on light reflected by magnetic mirrors.

  Author: Pieter Zeeman

• In the absence of a magnetic field the period of all these oscillations is the same. But as soon as the electron is exposed to the effect of a magnetic field, its motion changes.

  Author: Pieter Zeeman

• Writer's block is the greatest side effect of boredom.

  Author: Jason Zebehazy

• The automobile, both a cause and an effect of this decentralization, is ideally suited for our vast landscape and our generally confused and contrary commuting patterns.

  Author: Brock Yates

• Time has the same effect on the mind as on the face; the predominant passion and the strongest feature become more conspicuous from the others' retiring.

  Author: Mary Wortley

• It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity. It is time to separate unchangeable morals from local manners.

  Author: Mary Wollstonecraft

• The story drove the book. That had a very seminal effect on the way I saw writing and storytelling. If you can set a character in a story that is compelling and has a backbone, you draw people in.

  Author: Dick Wolf

• String Theory describes energy and matter as being composed of tiny, wiggling strands of energy that look like strings. And the pitch of a string's vibration determines the nature of its effect.

  Author: Roy Williams

• The answer was that in Burundi, having a clean bill of health has taken on a very particular meaning: unless and until you have paid for your hospital treatment, you simply can't leave, you are in effect a captive.

  Author: Rowan Williams

• Illegal immigration is not just a matter of interest in states along our border with Mexico. It is having an effect on local economies, schools, health care delivery, and public safety all across the country.

  Author: Roger Wicker

• All we need is a meteorologist who has once been soaked to the skin without ill effect. No one can write knowingly of the weather who walks bent over on wet days.

  Author: E. White

• Yet we act as if simple cause and effect is at work. We push to find the one simple reason things have gone wrong. We look for the one action, or the one person, that created this mess. As soon as we find someone to blame, we act as if we've solved the problem.

  Author: Margaret Wheatley

• Now the truth is, a president really can't control the economy, although his policies do have some effect on it.

  Author: Paul Weyrich

• It became very clear that Hanoi was in effect strategically running the Viet Cong operation.

  Author: William Westmoreland

• I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but, by God, they frighten me.

  Author: Arthur Wellesley

• It took the Gulf War to demonstrate that America did want more than one friend in the Mideast, and also was willing to take and make major risks to prevent a small Muslim country, Kuwait, from being overrun and in effect stolen by Iraq.

  Author: Caspar Weinberger

• What makes a story is how well it manages to connect with the reader, the visceral effect it has.

  Author: Len Wein

• We found that just by the way we stood, affected women dramatically, and if you look at our show, you'll see that we always stood with our legs open our fists on hips and our bat bulges forward, which had a profound effect on women!

  Author: Burt Ward

• Any seeming deception in a statement is costly, not only in the expense of the advertising but in the detrimental effect produced upon the customer, who believes she has been misled.

  Author: John Wanamaker

• A lot of people understand what not saying anything means, so, in effect, not saying anything is really saying a lot.

  Author: Bill Walton

• But as someone pointed out earlier, it is not really about fairness; it is about taking finite resources and applying them where they will have the most effect.

  Author: Jim Walsh

• The Vietnamese have a secret weapon. It's their willingness to die beyond our willingness to kill. In effect, they've been saying, You can kill us, but you'll have to kill a lot of us; you may have to kill all of us. And, thank heaven, we are not yet ready to do that.

  Author: George Wald

• We will win the battle for Africa, which is in effect a battle for Humanity.

  Author: Abdoulaye Wade

• The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it.

  Author: Voltaire

• The will is not free - it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect - but there is something behind the will which is free.

  Author: Swami Vivekananda

• The supply-side effect of a restrictive monetary policy is likely to be perverse, in that high interest rates enter into costs and thus exert inflationary pressure.

  Author: William Vickrey

• The cause of these global changes is fundamentally due to the Sun and its effect on the Earth as it moves about in its orbit. Not from man-made activities.

  Author: William Vaughan

• Film fixes a precise visual image in the viewer's head. In fiction, you just hope you're precise enough to convey the intended effect.

  Author: Jeff Vandermeer

• We're trying to have the band create something beautiful that hopefully one day, 20 years from now, can be picked up by a kid and hopefully have the same effect that Neil Young had on me, or Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath.

  Author: Ville Valo

• I believe that there are still people who believe that game music is something equal to just an effect incorporated into the game, something like a BGM. And therefore this is something that I would like to show that is not true.

  Author: Nobuo Uematsu

• Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a poor country like Russia - and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect.

  Author: Leon Trotsky

• Circumstances give in reality to every political principle, its distinguishing colour, and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.

  Author: David Trimble

• The main American naval forces were shifted to the Pacific region and an American admiral made a strong declaration to the effect that if war were to break out between Japan and the United States, the Japanese navy could be sunk in a matter of weeks.

  Author: Hideki Tojo

• Buddhism has had a major effect on who I am and how I think about the world. What I have learned is that I like all religions, but only parts of them.

  Author: Uma Thurman

• Let's not dismiss or attack individual ideas as being inadequate before we have had a chance to assess their positive effect as part of a whole solution.

  Author: John Thune

• The conscious purpose of science is control of Nature; its unconscious effect is disruption and chaos.

  Author: William Thompson

• I conceived of an instrument that would create sound without using any mechanical energy, like the conductor of an orchestra. The orchestra plays mechanically, using mechanical energy; the conductor just moves his hands, and his movements have an effect on the music artistry.

  Author: Leon Theremin

• That the primary effect of gene mutation may be as simple as the substitution of a single amino acid by another and may lead to profound secondary changes in protein structure and properties has recently been strongly indicated by the work of Ingram on hemoglobin.

  Author: Edward Tatum

• The event of the landing of these brethren upon our shores is to be, not without its beneficial effect, as well to the colored population of this country, as it promises to be to ill-fated Africa.

  Author: Lewis Tappan

• Pronouncement of experts to the effect that something cannot be done has always irritated me.

  Author: Leo Szilard

• This submission is a restraint of liberty, but could be of no effect as to the good intended, unless it were general; nor general, unless it were natural.

  Author: Algernon Sydney

• First off, I don't want anyone to think I'm this huge thing in Japan. Every group from here that's made any records over any length of time - even indie bands - have a Cheap Trick effect in Japan.

  Author: Matthew Sweet

• I believe there is no doctrine more dangerous to the Church today than to convey the impression that a revival is something peculiar in itself and cannot be judged by the same rules of causes and effect as other things.

  Author: Billy Sunday

• Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.

  Author: Meryl Streep

• The bomb and the entrance of the Russians into the war will certainly have an effect on hastening the victory.

  Author: Henry Stimson

• A security cam is one small part of a much larger universe of cams. The much larger effect, socially, politically and economically, is going to come from a much larger trend.

  Author: Bruce Sterling

• So, in effect, my first sale was actually two books.

  Author: George Stephen

• Psycho 11 and III say, in effect, there's no way to survive with a psychological problem. If you've got it, the law can keep you locked up because there's no chance for cure.

  Author: Joseph Stefano

• I drink for the effect, because it loosens up the tongue a little bit.

  Author: Peter Steele

• It is in the power of every individual to do that which the community as a whole is powerless to effect.

  Author: William Stead

• Along a series of lines running from longer to shorter wavelengths the effect of the electric field becomes greater as the serial numbers increase - that is, as the wavelength decreases.

  Author: Johannes Stark

• The most common and most important result of them is that the nature and size of the effect on corresponding series of different elements are largely an expression of the peculiarity of their atomic structure - or, at least, of the structure of the surface.

  Author: Johannes Stark

• The only side effect of too much training is that you get into better shape. There is nothing wrong with that.

  Author: Mark Spitz

• Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.

  Author: Baruch Spinoza

• Every cause produces more than one effect.

  Author: Herbert Spencer

• All I know is that these two gases both had a quite extraordinary effect, and that there was no respirator, and no protection against them that we knew of. So the soldiers would have been unable to protect themselves against this gas in any way.

  Author: Albert Speer

• Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.

  Author: Thomas Sowell

• Never let a man imagine that he can pursue a good end by evil means, without sinning against his own soul. The evil effect on himself is certain.

  Author: Robert Southey

• The office of President is a great one; to every true American it seems the greatest on earth. And to me, as I was engaged in weaving a background of music for the pageantry of it, there came a deeper realization of the effect of that office on the man.

  Author: John Sousa

• Scientific men can hardly escape the charge of ignorance with regard to the precise effect of the impact of modern science upon the mode of living of the people and upon their civilisation.

  Author: Frederick Soddy

• I am for an art that takes into account the direct effect of the elements as they exist from day to day apart from representation.

  Author: Robert Smithson

• It is not to be disguised, that a war has broken out between the North and the South. - Political and commercial men are industriously striving to restore peace: but the peace, which they would effect, is superficial, false, and temporary.

  Author: Gerrit Smith

• In the 1950s we use to feel that television was taking away our comic readership; with today's exciting, powerfully visual movies I have to wonder about their effect on the kids' loyalty to the comic book medium all over again.

  Author: Joe Simon

• The truth is, it's not a great career move to create a readership and then, in effect, abandon them.

  Author: Dan Simmons

• Our holiness is an effect, not a cause; so long as our eyes are on our own personal whiteness as an end in itself, the thing breaks down.

  Author: Charles Simeon

• I honestly do not know if civil disobedience has any effect on the government. I can promise you it has a great effect on the person who chooses to do it.

  Author: Martin Sheen

• Writing songs has a therapeutic effect, and it either kills off love or wins the heart of the lover.

  Author: Shakira

• I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.

  Author: William Shakespeare

• Based on the laws of physics, the effect on temperature of man's contribution to atmospheric CO2 levels is minuscule and indiscernible from the natural variability caused in large part by changes in solar energy output.

  Author: Robert Scotto

• One effect could be that the huge atomic arsenal created in the cold war could be reduced significantly.

  Author: Gerhard Schroder

• The question of feasibility, the question of cost, the question of including partners elsewhere in the world, the question of the effect of this project on arms agreements - all these issues are in discussion.

  Author: Gerhard Schroder

• If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.

  Author: Arthur Schopenhauer

• For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.

  Author: Arthur Schopenhauer

• In effect I am not a novelist, but rather a failed essayist who started to write novels because he didn't know how to write essays.

  Author: Jose Saramago

• Society has to change, but the political powers we have at the moment are not enough to effect this change. The whole democratic system would have to be rethought.

  Author: Jose Saramago

• It doesn't bother me that Seven has such an overtly sexual presence, because she has no concept of what effect that physical package would have on some male member of the crew. That's what's fun, her innocence.

  Author: Jeri Ryan

• Our capital system is haunted by the demon of error: error in determining guilt and error in determining who among the guilty deserves to die. What effect was race having? What effect was poverty having?

  Author: George Ryan

• All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy.

  Author: John Ruskin

• If we suppose that many natural phenomena are in effect computations, the study of computer science can tell us about the kinds of natural phenomena that can occur.

  Author: Rudy Rucker

• Our estimates suggest that a tax increase of 1 percent of GDP reduces output over the next three years by nearly 3 percent. The effect is highly significant.

  Author: Christina Romer

• As children we recognized that we belonged to an unusual, even exceptional, family, but the effect was different on each of us.

  Author: David Rockefeller

• However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention.

  Author: Francois Rochefoucauld

• The moderation of people in prosperity is the effect of a smooth and composed temper, owing to the calm of their good fortune.

  Author: Francois Rochefoucauld

• You can eliminate, for example, a Brazil nut gene if you know that it will create an allergenic effect.

  Author: Jeremy Rifkin

• If the large power voluntarily abstains from using its full power or feels the strategic situation to be such that it cannot do so, it in effect loses the advantage of being a big power.

  Author: Elliot Richardson

• Everybody talks about wanting to change things and help and fix, but ultimately all you can do is fix yourself. And that's a lot. Because if you can fix yourself, it has a ripple effect.

  Author: Rob Reiner

• Every indication of wisdom, taken from the effect, is equally an indication of power to execute what wisdom planned.

  Author: Thomas Reid

• It is a question of fact, whether the influence of motives be fixed by laws of nature, so that they shall always have the same effect in the same circumstances.

  Author: Thomas Reid

• In effect, I feel like a blind, deaf, and illiterate person working through the sensibilities and multiple, real talents of other people. Everything I do is collaborative.

  Author: Godfrey Reggio

• I like the effect drink has on me.

  Author: Oliver Reed

• I begin by considering an effect.

  Author: Maurice Ravel

• If there's a severe recession, the automatic stabilizers will come into effect, and we will still try to reduce the structural deficit, but we will not try to keep cutting the budget so that we keep worsening a severe recession.

  Author: Franklin Raines

• I'm not satisfied with the progress of the work, but I am happy that the talks are going on. It might have a negative effect if the United States joins.

  Author: Akbar Rafsanjani

• Because just as arms have no force outside if there is no counsel within a house, study is vain and counsel useless that is not put to virtuous effect when the time calls.

  Author: Francois Rabelais

• Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.

  Author: Quintilian

• Few speeches which have produced an electrical effect on an audience can bear the colourless photography of a printed record.

  Author: Archibald Primrose

• It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is 'soporific'.

  Author: Beatrix Potter

• Companies operating in urban communities have a tremendous ripple effect.

  Author: Michael Porter

• No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.

  Author: Karl Popper

• When it passes towards the east, the sun begins to have less effect upon it, and a thin line on the edge of its bright side emits its splendour towards the earth.

  Author: Marcus Pollio

• A very small cause which escapes our notice determines a considerable effect that we cannot fail to see, and then we say that the effect is due to chance.

  Author: Henri Poincare

• I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

  Author: Edgar Poe

• I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.

  Author: Edgar Poe

• I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.

  Author: Edgar Poe

• It's sort of a feeling of power onstage. It's really the ability to make people smile, or just to turn them one way or another for that duration of time, and for it to have some effect later on. I don't really think it's power... it's the goodness.

  Author: Robert Plant

• A thousand acres that can feed a thousand souls is better than ten thousand acres of no more effect.

  Author: William Petty

• The reality is that during the Reagan years, for instance, we doubled the amount of revenue that we were sending to Washington, D.C. after the tax cuts took effect.

  Author: Mike Pence

• I believe the director is the one that sets the mood and if you have this hysterical director it's a domino effect. I would work for him forever, for nothing. Don't tell my agent that.

  Author: Elizabeth Pena

• The final upshot of thinking is the exercise of volition, and of this thought no longer forms a part; but belief is only a stadium of mental action, an effect upon our nature due to thought, which will influence future thinking.

  Author: Charles Peirce

• But, on the other hand, the occasional and precarious dripping of coppers has by no means a genial effect.

  Author: James Payn

• You see an absolutely brilliant film later, as an adult, and you walk out thinking about what to have for dinner. Whereas something like Jaws winds up having a huge effect on me. If only my parents had been taking me to Kurosawa films when I was eight, but no.

  Author: Ann Patchett

• College had little effect on me. I'd have been the same writer if I'd gone to MIT, except I'd have flunked out sooner.

  Author: Robert Parker

• What we do want to see is reforms that are going to have a permanent effect on the budget deficit.

  Author: Ed Parker

• The cause is hidden; the effect is visible to all.

  Author: Ovid

• For, with pure water the inversion of cane sugar scarcely proceeds and subsequently it required very thorough, difficult studies before this effect and its order of magnitude were established.

  Author: Wilhelm Ostwald

• Nowadays, however, we recognize that simultaneously with the typical case of a chemical reaction a typical case of catalytic effect had been studied which constitutes a limiting case.

  Author: Wilhelm Ostwald

• Also, General Zinni, who commanded central command, was very much opposed to the war in the first place, as I was. We were both quoted to that effect in February of 2003.

  Author: William Odom

• Certain things do not effect me anymore, which is not always good. There is always commotion, but I notice that hardly anything affects me or puts me out of balance.

  Author: Ruud Nistelrooy

• She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.

  Author: Florence Nightingale

• Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.

  Author: Friedrich Nietzsche

• I was less successful in my attempts to effect preventive vaccination against typhus by using the virus and in trying to produce large quantities of serum using large animals.

  Author: Charles Nicole

• The movie that's had the most effect on me is Jaws. To this day when I'm in the ocean, I'm hearing that music.

  Author: Judd Nelson

• The Tax Code today is more complicated than ever, and the very people on the Republican side who denounce the Tax Code's complexity are the ones that put together what they now call a convoluted monstrosity. They put it into effect.

  Author: Richard Neal

• In course of time the Brothers Cowper removed the manufacture of their printing machines from London, to Manchester. There they found skilled and energetic workmen, ready to carry their plans into effect.

  Author: James Nasmyth

• I wasn't thinking of the longevity of any of my songs, but I am extremely pleased with the lasting effect.

  Author: Graham Nash

• Neil's effect on the band was immediate and very fulfilling. He adds a certain edge to the sound and, of course, he is an incredible musician. We became a better band because of the inclusion of Neil Young.

  Author: Graham Nash

• We would be false to our trust if we allowed the time it takes to give effect to constitutional rights to be used as the very reason for taking away those rights.

  Author: Frank Murphy

• While we have entertained the contention that a deed may make more propaganda than hundreds of speeches, thousands of articles, and tens of thousands of pamphlets, we have held that an arbitrary act of violence will not necessarily have such an effect.

  Author: Johann Most

• My piece in One World or None was the description of the effect of a single atomic bomb on New York City.

  Author: Philip Morrison

• We can no longer stand for the Security Council passing resolutions and then in effect heaving alongside and taking a vacation. We cannot leave it to the secretary general to go cap in hand.

  Author: Alex Morrison

• However, the Government has made it clear that we do not encourage the recruitment of teachers from developing nations where there may be an adverse effect on the economy.

  Author: Estelle Morris

• Peace is a natural effect of trade.

  Author: Charles Montesquieu

• What perhaps should receive more attention is the effect of the treatment on the virus.

  Author: Luc Montagnier

• The great increase of our population throughout the Union will alone produce an important effect, and in no quarter will it be so sensibly felt as in those in contemplation.

  Author: James Monroe

• The Biblical world view sees Earth and its ecosystems as the effect of a wise God's creation and... therefore robust, resilient, and self-regulating, like the product of any good engineer.

  Author: Christopher Monckton

• Antioxidants have a good effect on certain forms of Crohn's disease.

  Author: Mary Mobley

• I believed in realism, as summarized by John McCarthy's comment to the effect that if we worked really hard, we'd have an intelligent system in from four to four hundred years.

  Author: Marvin Minsky

• As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to the general good, are apt to be at complete war with one another.

  Author: John Mill

• To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect upon myself is to live on the doorstep of hell.

  Author: Thomas Merton

• Social psychology is especially interested in the effect which the social group has in the determination of the experience and conduct of the individual member.

  Author: George Mead

• That was the big effect Lord of the Rings had on me. It was discovering New Zealand. And even more precious were the people- not at all like the Australians.

  Author: Ian Mckellen

• If you sit in a position where decisions that you take would have a serious effect on people, you can't ignore a lot of experience around the world which says this drug has these negative effects.

  Author: Thabo Mbeki

• You might say that when you step inside, you're entering a honorific space, but that's something totally different than experiencing it. And in architecture the experience comes first. That has the deepest effect on us.

  Author: Thom Mayne

• Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.

  Author: W. Maugham

• All labour is directed towards producing some effect.

  Author: Alfred Marshall

• When did we begin to lose faith in our ability to effect change?

  Author: Wynton Marsalis

• In fact any experiment that measures a quantum effect is one in which the quantum effect is aligned with the behavior of some heavy, macroscopic object; that's how we measure it.

  Author: Murray Mann

• Planets are too dim to be detected with existing equipment, far away, except in these very special circumstances where they're seen by their gravitational effect.

  Author: Murray Mann

• You cannot of yourself move your arm or alter your position, situation, posture, do to other men good or evil, or effect the least change in the world.

  Author: Nicolas Malebranche

• One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary works have been translated into other languages.

  Author: Naguib Mahfouz

• What postmodernism gives us instead is a multicultural defense for male violence - a defense for it wherever it is, which in effect is a pretty universal defense.

  Author: Catharine MacKinnon

• I think the long-term effect of video on cinema is good in that what we are now getting up there on the screen is of superior quality. Videos are just so much more sensitive to the world.

  Author: Ann Macbeth

• The effect of violent dislike between groups has always created an indifference to the welfare and honor of the state.

  Author: Thomas Macaulay

• Proponents of the Central America Free Trade Agreement have conveniently ignored this fundamental fact: the effect of trade on incomes in Central America and how to alleviate the adverse consequences of trade liberalization on the poor.

  Author: Stephen Lynch

• I played the tuba in high school. I wanted to be a member of the marching band. I thought, what can I play that has the most effect? What can I play to get people to laugh?

  Author: Patti LuPone

• It seems incontrovertible to me that there is a global warming effect and that it is going to be serious, probably not in the amount of, say, six degrees warming, but it's likely that we'll get two to three degrees warming and that will be serious enough.

  Author: Bjorn Lomborg

• The old series of sittings with Mrs. Piper convinced me of survival for reasons which I should find it hard to formulate in any strict fashion, but that was their distinct effect.

  Author: Oliver Lodge

• So, yeah, I think it had a major effect. I think in franchising younger people, it was just an idea that's never been trotted out before, but it makes perfectly good sense.

  Author: Kurt Loder

• The concentration and reciprocal effect of industry and agriculture conjoin in a growth of productive powers, which increases more in geometrical than in arithmetical proportion.

  Author: Friedrich List

• In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers, always on trial for their political lives, always required to court their restless constituents.

  Author: Walter Lippmann

• It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, does succeed by deceiving the public.

  Author: George Lewes

• Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress.

  Author: George Lewes

• Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity. Surrealism to me is reality.

  Author: John Lennon

• It can have its effect only through the intervention of God, inasmuch as in the ideas of God a monad rightly demands that God, in regulating the rest from the beginning of things, should have regard to itself.

  Author: Gottfried Leibniz

• My bravery however was the effect of assurance for could I have believed the current report, I should have fled as fast as any man, no man can possibly have a greater reluctance to an intimacy with Sir William Howe than my Self.

  Author: Henry Laurens

• I shall have less cause to regret the carrying my intended purpose into effect, foreseeing that you may immediately fill with advantage, the vacancy which will presently happen.

  Author: Henry Laurens

• Useful as a war against France, undertaken by the Government against the will of the people would be for our revolutionary development, just so dangerous must be the effect upon our democratic development of a war supported by blind popular enthusiasm.

  Author: Ferdinand Lassalle

• Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them as the birth pangs of a new order.

  Author: Christopher Lasch

• The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction.

  Author: Christopher Lasch

• The high price of health care in this country is a serious issue that demands serious attention. Putting limits on damages have little or no effect on skyrocketing malpractice insurance rates.

  Author: Mary Landrieu

• The same stimulus that animates men to action, will have a proportionate effect on juvenile minds.

  Author: Joseph Lancaster

• We daily witness the beneficial effect produced to the community by the institution of premiums, held out to encourage the inventions of ingenious mechanics.

  Author: Joseph Lancaster

• And instead of getting a pepper-and-salt effect, we find very clear and sharp divisions between the dialects of the United States, which are getting more different from each other as time goes on.

  Author: William Labov

• When we think of the state of the economy, we are not thinking in terms of money flow. We are thinking in terms of the effect on everyday lives of people.

  Author: Daw Kyi

• I believe the anthropogenic effect for climate change is still only one of the hypotheses to explain the variability of climate.

  Author: Kanya Kusano

• There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.

  Author: Louis Kronenberger

• In The Doors we have both musicians and poets, and both know of each other's art, so we can effect a synthesis.

  Author: Robby Krieger

• The moral effect of the thundering of one's own artillery is most extraordinary, and many of us thought that we had never heard any more welcome sound than the deep roaring and crashing that started in at our rear.

  Author: Fritz Kreisler

• If the same phrase in the same place created the right effect, I was perfectly prepared to use it every time. I wasn't worried that I wasn't improvising.

  Author: Alexis Korner

• Art to me is a humanitarian act and I believe that there is a responsibility that art should somehow be able to effect mankind, to make the word a better place.

  Author: Jeff Koons

• The frame of mind in the local legislatures seems to be exerted to prevent the federal constitution from having any good effect.

  Author: Henry Knox

• Now, a recent study from cardiologists at the University of Maryland, has shown that laughter may have a beneficial effect on the heart.

  Author: Allen Klein

• I believe that detente was having almost the opposite effect of what was intended. What was intended was to sort of end the contest for power and to stop Soviet expansion, especially by military means and the military build-up, the military contest.

  Author: Jeane Kirkpatrick

• Temperance is essential, if the services of men and women are to be employed to the best and most useful effect according, to the physical capacity and ability of each. Nothing less will assure a total effort.

  Author: William King

• Depakote also has a really bad side effect, which is death.

  Author: Margot Kidder

• When we, through our educational culture, through the media, through the entertainment culture, give our children the impression that human beings cannot control their passions, we are telling them, in effect, that human beings cannot be trusted with freedom.

  Author: Alan Keyes

• Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffective besides. Neither shame nor physical pain have any other effect than a hardening one.

  Author: Ellen Key

• It is idle to say that nations can struggle to outdo each other in building armaments and never use them. History demonstrates the contrary, and we have but to go back to the last war to see the appalling effect of nations competing in great armaments.

  Author: Frank Kellogg

• Well unfortunately I didn't work with Andre much. But rap is a strong presence in the culture and anyone is going to grateful for its appearance, grateful for any kind of music that has the kind of effect that rap has had on us all.

  Author: Harvey Keitel

• Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.

  Author: John Keats

• The Emmy will have no effect on me, from the standpoint that you've still got to wash your bowl after breakfast.

  Author: Charles Keating

• I'm officially middle-aged. I don't need drugs anymore, thank God. I can get the same effect just by standing up real fast.

  Author: Jonathan Katz

• Affirmative action has a negative effect on our society when it means counting us like so many beans and dividing us into separate piles.

  Author: John Kasich

• The older painting - well, it does have an effect all at once, I suppose, but it's of a lesser intensity than a lot of the American work in the last ten or fifteen years.

  Author: Donald Judd

• The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.

  Author: Samuel Johnson

• Janet Reno, during her confirmation hearings, said she would come down harder on porno, and lately she's talked about how violence on television has an effect on violence in the real world.

  Author: Penn Jillette

• I could have done a hundred songs, really. It was hard to narrow them down, because I tried to pick songs for the most part that actually did have some effect on me or influenced me in the past.

  Author: Alan Jackson

• The problem with not having a camera is that one must trust the analysis of a reporter who's telling you what occurred in the courtroom. You have to take into consideration the filtering effect of that person's own biases.

  Author: Lance Ito

• The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.

  Author: Washington Irving

• I've always been a fan of the 19th century novel, of the novel that is plotted, character-driven, and where the passage of time is almost as central to the novel as a major minor character, the passage of time and its effect on the characters in the story.

  Author: John Irving

• Because the sad fact is that the Enron Corporation and others manipulated with unfortunately great effect the energy market in the West Coast starting in 2000.

  Author: Jay Inslee

• Study carefully the law of cause and effect.

  Author: Vernon Howard

• Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.

  Author: Horace

• The effect of studying masterpieces is to make me admire and do otherwise.

  Author: Gerard Hopkins

• I feel connected to the Second World War because my father lost his father in that war. So, through my dad and the effect it had on him of losing his father young, I always felt connected to the war. It goes back years, but it still feels to me as if we're completely living in it.

  Author: Tom Hooper

• To believe in a just law of cause and effect, carrying with it a punishment or a reward, is to believe in righteousness.

  Author: Ernest Holmes

• However, the fact that the tanks had now been raised to such a pitch of technical perfection that they could cross our undamaged trenches and obstacles did not fail to have a marked effect on our troops.

  Author: Paul Hindenburg

• Given that, and assuming that we begin to adjust to issues like climate change and the greenhouse effect, Denver's location in the center of the country becomes a tremendous advantage.

  Author: John Hickenlooper

• You see, the Greenhouse Effect is a direct result of burning fossil or old carbon fuels.

  Author: Jack Herer

• Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers, which are always repulsed by the anvil.

  Author: Claude Helvetius

• Grace in women has more effect than beauty.

  Author: William Hazlitt

• But any big change is more likely to result if there is a disruptive event such as new technologies or platforms that have a surprising effect on market share.

  Author: Trip Hawkins

• We've had a number 1 album in the UK and that was a really big thing for me. So now all we've got to do is do it in America and that will have the domino effect of doing it across the rest of the world.

  Author: Dan Hawkins

• Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance.

  Author: Vaclav Havel

• It makes me feel good to have some comforting effect on someone that needs comfort.

  Author: Juliana Hatfield

• I do know the effect that music still has on me - I'm completely vulnerable to it. I'm seduced by it.

  Author: Debbie Harry

• With the question of the effect of a poem, the topic of investigation shifts from that of textual autonomy to textual reception - to the issue of what we actually look for or find in reading a poem.

  Author: Thomas Harrison

• As to the effect of the wave on the air, we will suppose the water to be quite flat and the air motionless, a heavy undulation comes on the scene, it has to pass, so it pushes the air up with its face, letting it fall again as its back glides onwards.

  Author: Lawrence Hargrave

• It becomes a giant's task to compute the result when the effect of cross seas, wind at all angles and ever varying force, arched surfaces, head resistance, ratio of weight to area, and the intelligence of the guiding power crop up.

  Author: Lawrence Hargrave

• Well, we think the broadcasts did have some effect, because we see the antiwar movement in the U.S. building up, growing and so we think that our broadcast is a support to this antiwar movement.

  Author: Hanoi Hannah

• In fact, I had to make an enormous adjustment to this, not only in listening to it but in playing with it. It's a full sound. In some instances, you must have the volume to get the effect.

  Author: Chico Hamilton

• The spirals of the helix should be as nearly approximated as possible, as each aids by its heat that of its neighbour, or rather diminishes the cooling effect of the gaseous atmosphere.

  Author: William Grove

• The very effect of the education they were given... was to make men think; and, thinking, they became less and less satisfied with the miserable pays they received.

  Author: John Grierson

• I see so much more than I used to see. The effect has been to depress and sadden and hurt me terribly.

  Author: Zane Grey

• In effect, I was asking that if Russia mobilized against Austria, the German Government, who had been supporting the Austrian demand on Serbia, should ask Austria to consider some modification of her demands, under the threat of Russian mobilization.

  Author: Edward Grey

• One of the books we read a few years ago that had a big effect on us was Repeated Takes by Michael Chanan.

  Author: Colin Greenwood

• We need, in effect, to make the phantom 'lock-boxes' around the trust fund real.

  Author: Alan Greenspan

• Defendants are being evaluated based on numerical grid without any aggravating circumstances being considered. The effect has been to transfer the disparity from the judge to the prosecutor allowing for a great deal of leeway on indictments.

  Author: Harold Greene

• I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect - it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives away a little of his own importance; the bribe once accepted, he becomes the inferior, like a man who has paid for a woman.

  Author: Graham Greene

• We will never win this war until we understand the effect that Guantanamo Bay has had on the overall war effort. And we'll never get the support of the American people if we can't prove to them that these folks that we're dealing with are not common criminals. We're going to keep them - keep you safe from them.

  Author: Lindsey Graham

• It would be great to take one city street and turn it into a pedestrian corridor and see what kind of effect it has on the businesses in that area - It's the future I think.

  Author: Stone Gossard

• In America you can say anything you want - as long as it doesn't have any effect.

  Author: Paul Goodman

• Philosophy is an attempt by man to find cause and effect. Religion has the same goal.

  Author: Al Goldstein

• In reality there is no cause or effect, there is only the indifference of the universe.

  Author: Al Goldstein

• If we say that anyone who "moralizes" must be perfect morally then we are in effect saying no one can moralize.

  Author: Jonah Goldberg

• When I say something untrue on the air, I mean for it to be transparently untrue. I assume people know when I'm just saying something for effect. Or to be funny.

  Author: Ira Glass

• As the cost of gasoline rises and our dependence on foreign oil continues to increase, the effect of sending over $100 billion each year to OPEC nations hurts every American.

  Author: Paul Gillmor

• Men have been found to deny woman intellect; they have credited her with instinct, with intuition, with a capacity to correlate cause and effect much as a dog connects its collar with a walk.

  Author: W. George

• Polling is merely an instrument for gauging public opinion. When a president or any other leader pays attention to poll results, he is, in effect, paying attention to the views of the people. Any other interpretation is nonsense.

  Author: George Gallup

• No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined.

  Author: Paul Gallico

• I wanted the players to feel like they were part of a family, to be conscious of that controlled togetherness as they made that slow entrance onto the field. It had a great psychological effect on the opposing team, too. They'd never seen anything like it.

  Author: Hayden Fry

• The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.

  Author: James Froude

• Most individuals have always thought themselves not big enough or significant enough to have an effect on the whole planet, a notion which conversely made them think they could afford big arrogance and big greed over its resources.

  Author: Lynette Fromme

• Close your bodily eye, that you may see your picture first with the eye of the spirit. Then bring to light what you have seen in the darkness, that its effect may work back, from without to within.

  Author: Caspar Friedrich

• It can have an enormous effect because big budget movies can have big budget perks, and small budget movies have no perks, but what is the driving force, of course, is the script, and your part in it.

  Author: Morgan Freeman

• If you hear, day after day, liberals are rooting against armed forces, that is eventually going to have an effect on soldiers and troops who are actually going to believe that and it's wrong. It's just wrong.

  Author: Al Franken

• The dwarfed trees of the Chinese and Japanese have been noticed by every author who has written upon these countries, and all have attempted to give some description of the method by which the effect is produced.

  Author: Robert Fortune

• The language fictional characters use is chosen for effect, at least if the author is concentrating.

  Author: John Ford

• The faster the word sticks to the thought, the more beautiful is the effect.

  Author: Gustave Flaubert

• Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.

  Author: F. Fitzgerald

• One blob of red in the wrong place and the audience isn't looking at the hero, they're looking at a patch of curtain (or something similar) and your whole effect is lost.

  Author: Terence Fisher

• I think of my body as a side effect of my mind.

  Author: Carrie Fisher

• Inherited creativity isn't a spigot dispensing features, but a constellation enlightening bound shoalers, establishing paths wed through history that beckon one tale after another.

  Author: Sari Coverdale

• The effect of sailing is produced by a judicious arrangement of the sails to the direction of the wind.

  Author: William Falconer

• Depression scares people off. It makes me laugh that it has that kind of effect.

  Author: Siobhan Fahey

• I really worked with icons in the music business, which really had a strong effect on me. It wasn't just pick-up gigs.

  Author: Kevin Eubanks

• To know that everything we say and do to this new little human being may have a profound effect on him or her is a daunting obligation.

  Author: Gloria Estefan

• If you do things with a certain type of result and cause a certain type of reaction or effect, then you increase your market value. It's very much a competition for the entertainment dollar, and that's never been more clearly evident than in today's NBA game.

  Author: Julius Erving

• If the many allegations made to this date are true, then the burglars who broke into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate were, in effect, breaking into the home of every citizen.

  Author: Sam Ervin

• If you're in a forest, the quality of the echo is very strange because echoes back off so many surfaces of all those trees that you get this strange, itchy ricochet effect.

  Author: Brian Eno

• Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.

  Author: Ralph Emerson

• Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

  Author: Ralph Emerson

• 'Charm' - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.

  Author: Henry Ellis

• Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.

  Author: George Eliot

• But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.

  Author: George Eliot

• Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night.

  Author: George Eliot

• The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.

  Author: Albert Einstein

• I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.

  Author: Umberto Eco

• On the basis of the familiar experience that that which is learned with difficulty is better retained, it would have been safe to prophesy such an effect from the greater number of repetitions.

  Author: Hermann Ebbinghaus

• My father is a well known artist, Ted Dyer, who has been painting for many years. Our work is very different, but growing up surrounded by paintings, paints, easels and art books does have an effect.

  Author: John Dyer

• In a society which is structured the wrong way, piety has no effect.

  Author: Friedrich Durrenmatt

• Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities.

  Author: Lord Dunsany

• Rock musicians, and a vast array of popular-music musicians, due to their wealth, acquired through the mass of their notoriety, are able to be listened to and heard and thus are able to effect change on an international level.

  Author: Bill Dixon

• Nonviolent action does not have to get others to be nice. It can in effect force them to consult their consciences.

  Author: Barbara Deming

• Yes, it is a rehearsed show, yes, it was analogy of going to see a play at the theatre, where everything has to be in place and whole things, everything being works, all works together to get the best effect you know it's more like an actor learning a part.

  Author: John Deacon

• I don't start a piece knowing exactly what effect it's going to have. There is a seed of an idea that I could never articulate, right at the beginning of the piece, literally like one cell.

  Author: Siobhan Davies

• During my solitude, conflicting thoughts increased; but much exercise of soul had the effect of causing the scriptures to gain complete ascendancy over me.

  Author: John Darby

• The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotent.

  Author: Edward Dahlberg

• Secondly, the nature of the revolutions which have altered the surface of the earth must have had a more decisive effect on the terrestrial quadrupeds than on the marine animals.

  Author: George Cuvier

• They say 6 million people see you when you act in a film; it may only be 600 in a play. But the effect on the 600 may be truer and more lasting.

  Author: Cyril Cusack

• The real effect of the WTC calamity has been depressed spirits, anxiety, and uncertainty among publishers, and of course those emotions are not restricted to publishers.

  Author: Richard Curtis

• It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.

  Author: Quentin Crisp

• Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.

  Author: William Cowper

• Enquire what the effect of large endowments are upon colleges.

  Author: Ezra Cornell

• Severity is allowable where gentleness has no effect.

  Author: Pierre Corneille

• If you look at body fat, it seems to increase with age, even though your weight does not. That's a physiological fact of aging, they say. Heck it is. It is an adaptive effect of aging.

  Author: Kenneth Cooper

• The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.

  Author: James Cooper

• Grades are almost completely relative, in effect ranking students relative to others in their class. Thus extra achievement by one student not only raises his position, but in effect lowers the position of others.

  Author: James Coleman

• The results indicate that heterogeneity of race and heterogeneity of family educational background can increase the achievement of children from weak educational backgrounds with no adverse effect on children from strong educational backgrounds.

  Author: James Coleman

• The cause ceasing, the effect ceases also.

  Author: Edward Coke

• I had in effect a user base eager to buy porn but no one to sell it to them.

  Author: Benjamin Cohen

• It is not enough to be well-intentioned; one must strive to put those intentions into action in a capable way. One must consider the effect his actions will have on others. Looked at like this, to persist in ignorance is itself dishonorable.

  Author: Andrew Cohen

• Gravity is one variable in a lot of scientific processes. If you can remove gravity or minimize its effect, then you can understand the other processes that are going on.

  Author: Laurel Clark

• The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.

  Author: Marcus Cicero

• We have more media than ever and more technology in our lives. It's supposed to help us communicate, but it has the opposite effect of isolating us.

  Author: Tracy Chapman

• The challenge of screenwriting is to say much in little and then take half of that little out and still preserve an effect of leisure and natural movement.

  Author: Raymond Chandler

• Every person's every action has an effect.

  Author: Rosanne Cash

• Music is something that always lifts my spirits and makes me happy, and when I make music I always hope it will have the same effect on whoever listens to it.

  Author: Aaron Carter

• Even the handsomest men do not have the same momentary effect on the world as a truly beautiful woman does.

  Author: Jonathan Carroll

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