Quotes About Effect

Perhaps ministers at our best were more like community organizers—providing space and questions that helped people discover themselves and their capacity to effect change?

The wine had the effect of making him discourse on racing, a subject regarding which I was myself unfortunately too ignorant to dispose as summarily as I should have wished of the almost certainly erroneous opinions he put forward.

The circumstances created by the French Revolution were once again part of the equation. The origin of the grant was a wish to prevent seminarists from crossing over to wartime France, whence they might return full of inappropriate revolutionary sentiments; but the effect was to bring Catholics generally closer into the Establishment

Quid quid movetur ab alio movetur(nothing moves without having been moved).

Saber que tal remedio ha curado a Calias atacado de tal enfermedad, que ha producido el mismo efecto en Sócrates y en muchos otros tomados individualmente, constituye la experiencia; pero saber que tal remedio ha curado toda clase de enfermos atacados de cierta enfermedad, los flemáticos, por ejemplo, los biliosos o los calenturientos, es arte.

Our first presupposition must be that in nature nothing acts on, or is acted on by, any other thing at random, nor may anything come from anything else, unless we mean that it does so in virtue of a concomitant attribute.

But the having such an opinion of themselves seems to have a deteriorating effect on the character: because in all cases men's aims are regulated by their supposed desert, and thus these men, under a notion of their own want of desert, stand aloof from honourable actions and courses, and similarly from external goods.

The man who is imbued with the idea of development, of continuous cause and effect, perceives in the sea an element which in the day-before-yesterday of geology was vapour, which yesterday was boiling, and which to-morrow will inevitably be ice.

When beauty is universal, it loses its power to move the heart, and only its absence can produce any emotional effect.

You can't have action without reaction.

Because Nature always balances her books, the Sun lost some velocity in the transaction; but the effect would not be measurable for a few thousand years.

It has always seemed to me that so long as you produce your dramatic effect, accuracy of detail matters little. I have never striven for it and I have made some bad mistakes in consequence. What matter if I hold my readers?

It is not really difficult to construct a series of inferences, each dependent upon its predecessor and each simple in itself. If, after doing so, one simply knocks out all the central inferences and presents one's audience with the starting-point and the conclusion, one may produce a startling, though perhaps a meretricious, effect.

And a singularly consistent investigation you have made, my dear Watson," said he. "I cannot at the moment recall any possible blunder which you have omitted. The total effect of your proceeding has been to give the alarm everywhere and yet to discover nothing.

It mattered to us both to have some point of reference in that strange place, some means of attesting to the effect it had on us. [p. 87]

He who believes in God is in danger of a still greater illusion—that of attributing to grace what is simply an essentially mechanical effect of nature.

Eddie Fislinger's church was an octagonal affair, with the pulpit in one angle, an arrangement which produced a fascinating, rather dizzy effect, reminiscent of the doctrine of predestination.

Inaccurate similes and metaphors have the effect of deflecting the reader's attention from the story to the words on the page. Yet when carried off, especially when a simile is original and a metaphor sings, there is no greater glory in the practice of words.

Inspiration is both the cause and the effect of living a positive life.

This much is true: When you are about to effect the lives of hundreds of people, Satan will do everything he can to prevent it from happening. Often pride and anger are his best assassins.

Words are my weapons. They might kill or cure the readers, that's out of my control.

The Mozart Effect comes to mind: the popular idea that listening to classical music makes students better at math.

It is too early to tell whether the Internet's effect on media will be as radical as that of the printing press. It is not too early to tell that there is nothing that happened between 1450 and now that comes close.'49

Poison is seldom taken in the gross; but, if mingled with food, the mischief is not suspected until it is discovered by the effect.