Quotes About Effect

Everyone could see that kids played a role in disease transmission. No one imagined they would have the effect that they had in the Glasses' model.

The exercise was meant to illustrate the powerful instinct people have for finding causes for any effect, and also for creating narratives. "The

Power that affects nothing is mere vanity.

I have no doubt that all that Hubbard LSD all of us had taken had a big effect on the birth of Silicon Valley

Americans reading the paper, listening to the news every single day, and all you hear is things are getting worse and worse. And that has a psychological effect on consumer confidence. That's what consumer confidence is.

Love and ahimsa are matchless in their effect.

For reasons I couldn't begin to guess at, a balustrade along the roofline had been adorned with life-sized statues of ordinary men, women and children. Goodness knows what this is meant to suggest – I suppose that this is some sort of Hall of the People – but the effect is that it looks as if two dozen citizens of various ages are about to commit mass suicide.

It would be hard to believe that the continuous movement of tectonic plates has no effect on the development of life on earth.

Incorporated into many of the façades are parts of the original structure – stairways that go nowhere, columns supporting nothing, niches that once clearly held Roman busts. The effect is that the houses look as if they grew magically out of the ruins. It is entrancing and there is no other place in Europe like it.

Such actions underline the one almost inevitable shortcoming of national academies. However progressive and far-seeing they may be to begin with, they almost always exert over time a depressive effect on change. So

all intents and purposes is colourless, redundant and hackneyed. Almost any other expression would be an improvement. 'He is, to all intents and purposes, king of the island' (Mail on Sunday) would be instantly made better by changing the central phrase to 'in effect' or removing it altogether. If the phrase must be used at all, it can always be shorn of the last two words. 'To all intents' says as much as 'to all intents and purposes'.

When you use carbon dioxide equivalents, you aren't fully accounting for this important short-term effect.

Because every bit of carbon we put into the atmosphere adds to the greenhouse effect. There's no getting around physics.

There is nothing we can now call our own, for what we call so is the effect of art; crimes are made by decrees of the senate, or by the votes of the people; and as here-to-fore we are burdened by vices, so now we are oppressed by laws.

91] Cause and effect. One must have deeper motives and judge everything accordingly, but go on talking like an ordinary person.

Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects.

96]. Cause and effect. Human weakness is the reason for so many canons of beauty; for instance, being a good lute-player. It is only our weakness which makes it a bad thing [not to be one?].

Consequences must outweigh probabilities

No doubt it is true that there is more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner repented than over all the saints who consistently remain holy, and the rare, sudden gentlenesses of arrogant people have infinitely more effect than the continual gentleness of gentle people. Arrogance turned gentle melts the heart.

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Still, taking the good with the bad, chivalry, like Christianity, had a healthy effect upon Western man.

Puisque moi-même j'ai longtemps été un pensionnaire dans un asile d'aliénés, je ne peux que relever les tendances sophistes de certains pensionnaires qui les entraînent à se tromper en commettant les erreurs d'appliquer la non causa et ignoratio elenchi et qui consiste à mésestimer l'effet par ignorance de la cause.

My lamp seemed to be of little effect in the brilliant moonlight, but I was glad to have it with me, for there was a dread loneliness in the place which chilled my heart and made my nerves tremble.

As he went down the wall, lizard fashion, I wished I had a gun or some lethal weapon, that I might destroy him. But I fear that no weapon wrought along by man's hand would have any effect on him.