Quotes About Effect

The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions, and would soon bring to an end all the static Utopias and the farmyard civilization of the Fabians.

The difficulty with humourists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don't; whichever seems likelier to win an effect.

Terror works like a musical composition, so many instruments, all in tune, playing perfectly together to create their desired effect. Sorrow and horror and fear.

I'm realistic. Getting to everybody is not the goal here. The people you can affect in any way - that's who you want to get to.

I think that the more alien and strange a world or situation is, the more concise you have to be if you want the reader to follow you. It depends on what effect you're looking for.

The satirist isn't just looking at things ironically but militantly - he wants to change them, and intends to have an effect on the world.

We cannot burn Mick Jagger. We want the effect, but we can't burn him.

I have always known that writing fiction had little effect on the world; that if it did, young men would not have gone to war after The Iliad.

These men had good cause to pursue nuptials; if there's one pattern that psychological studies have established, it's that the institution of marriage has an overwhelmingly salutary effect on men's mental health. "Being married," the prominent government demographer Paul Glick once estimated, "is about twice as advantageous to men as to women in terms of continued survival.

I convinced myself that committing them to a page meant the memory was saved, somehow, from the corrosive effect of time.

I think....you still have no idea. The effect you can have.

She has no idea. The effect she can have.

He tucks me in and says good night but I catch his hand and hold him there. A side effect of the sleep syrup is that it makes people less inhibited, like white liquor, and I know I have to control my tongue.

No lo entiende —dice Peeta, dirigiéndose a Haymitch y poniendo los ojos en blanco—. No entiende el efecto que ejerce en los demás.

Laughter changes to screams, blood stains pastel stones, real smoke darkens the special effect stuff made for television.

She has no idea. The effect she can have." He runs his fingernail along the wood grain in the table, refusing to look at me.

think . . . you still have no idea. The effect you can have." He slides his cuffs up the support and pushes himself to a sitting position. "None

The breath has, then, a profound effect on man's physical and psychological functioning since it is the link between the body and mind. The nose, therefore, as the major portal of breath into the body, plays a crucial role.

The present is determined by our past actions, and the future by the present.

You may ask, "Who wrote the Vedas?" They were not written. The words are the Vedas. A word is Veda, if I can pronounce it rightly. Then it will immediately produce the [desired] effect.

Do something good, and people want that! Do something less good, and people want it a little less!

Acting with a green screen has been physically challenging. I look at the green screen and then I'll look somewhere else and everything looks red. It's a bizarre thing where green has an effect on my vision, but it's fun.

I've discovered that sheer quantity doesn't necessarily make for a heavier sound; if anything, overdubs make guitars sound mushier.

Attachment and aversion are the root cause of karma, and karma originates from infatuation. Karma is the root cause of birth and death, and these are said to be the source of misery. None can escape the effect of their own past karma.