Quotes About Effect

What cannot Praise effect in Mighty Minds, When Flattery Sooths, and when Ambition Blinds!

requiring all things to recognize and yield to that authority, announcing that the authority of Jesus Christ is now in effect here.

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.

A bite from the Brazilian wandering spider results in an erection that lasts for several hours.

Finally, if any NPIs are to have any effect, the public has to comply with the recommendations and sustain that compliance.

The great advantage of the sort of education I had was precisely that it made practically no mark upon those subjected to it.

Everything else you see and experience in this world is effect, and that includes your feelings. The cause is always your thoughts.

It has always amazed me how tax cuts don't work until they take effect. Mr. Obama's experience with deferred tax rate increases will be the reverse. The economy will collapse in 2011.

The biggest effect of the personal computer revolution has been to allow millions and millions of people to experience computers themselves decades before they ever would have in the old paradigm.

I think a film is a failure if it doesn't have an emotional effect. That's the film's failure. Not if it doesn't deliver a message, but if it doesn't have emotional effect or visceral effect.

Faith has a powerfull effect In helping people recover a sense of Balance, tranquililty and hope.

If your presence didn't make an impact, your absence won't make a difference.

Weak, shallow people believe in luck... Strongly willed people believe in cause and effect.

The effect was mistaken for the cause. Right action came to be regarded as a means to gain Nirv??a, whereas right action is in fact the result of this state of consciousness in freedom.

Whenever we tamper with natural laws, there are consequences," the count said. "The larger the disruption, the larger the consequence.

The laborious process of causation which sooner or later will bring about every possible effect, including, consequently, those which one believed to be least possible, naturally slow at times, is rendered slower still by our desire (which in seeking to accelerate only obstructs it), by our very existence, and comes to fruition only when we have ceased to desire, and sometimes ceased to live.

Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect. They need at least a doctor who understands the disease. How can you expect Cottard to be able to treat you? He has made allowances for the difficulty of digesting sauces, for gastric trouble, but he has made no allowance for the effect of reading Shakespeare.

it was with an unusual intensity of pleasure, a pleasure destined to have a lasting effect upon his character and conduct...

It was with an unusual intensity of pleasure, a pleasure destined to have a lasting effect on him, that Swann remarked Odette's resemblance to the Zipporah of that Alessandro de Mariano to whom more people willingly give his popular surname, Botticelli, now that it suggests not so much the actual work of the Master as that false and banal conception of it which has of late obtained common currency.

And my grandmother had bought them in preference to other books, just as she would have preferred to take a house that had a gothic dovecot, or some other such piece of antiquity as would have a pleasant effect on the mind, filling it with a nostalgic longing for impossible journeys through the realms of time.

What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.

Death had a strange effect on the left-behind people. Some found peace and a new life; some clutched the death to their breasts.

Life cannot be cut off quickly. One cannot be dead until the things he changed are dead. His effect is the only evidence of his life. While there remains even a plaintive memory, a person cannot be cut off, dead. And he thought, "It's a long slow process for a human to die. We kill a cow, and it is dead as soon as the meat is eaten, but a man's life dies as a commotion in a still pool dies, in little waves, spreading and growing back toward stillness.

He went to his own dark house and lighted the lamps and set fire in the stove. The clock wound by Elizabeth still ticked, storing in its spring the pressure of her hand, and the wool socks she had hung to dry over the stove screen were still damp. These were vital parts of Elizabeth that were not dead yet. Joseph pondered slowly over it. Life cannot be cut off quickly. One cannot be dead until the things he changed are dead. His effect is the only evidence of his life.