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Quotes About Effects

I love CGI if it's invisible. I don't like it when it's there and obvious.
~ Neil Gaiman
He wrote authoritatively on magnetism, tides and the motions of the planets, and fondly on the effects of opium.
~ Bill Bryson
Antioxidants are molecules that neutralize free radicals, so the thinking is that if you take a lot of them in the form of supplements, you can counter the effects of aging. Unfortunately, there is no scientific evidence to support that.
~ Bill Bryson
There is a critical threshold where the natural biosphere stops buffering us from the effects of our emissions and actually starts to amplify them.
~ Bill Bryson
The number of chemicals in use in the developed world was more than 82,000 at the last count, and most of them – 86 per cent, according to one estimate – have never been tested for their effects on humans.
~ Bill Bryson
Words differently arranged have different meanings, and meanings differently arranged have different effects.
~ Blaise Pascal
the more innocent it appears to innocent souls, the more they are likely to be touched by it. Its violence pleases our self-love, which immediately forms a desire to produce the same effects which are seen so well represented
~ Blaise Pascal
There is no better proof of human vanity than to consider the causes and effects of love, because the whole universe can be changed by it.
~ Blaise Pascal
Anyone who wants to know the full extent of man's vanity has only to consider the causes and effects of love. The cause is a je ne sais quoi . (Corneille.) And its effects are terrifying. This indefinable something, so trifling that we cannot recognize it, upsets the whole earth, princes, armies, the entire world.
~ Blaise Pascal
PRINCIPIO DE RIQUEZA: El dinero es un resultado, la riqueza es un resultado, la salud es un resultado, la enfermedad es un resultado, tu peso es un resultado. Vivimos en un mundo de causas y efectos.
~ T. Harv Eker
If an individual is completely isolated, but most important, completely visible, says Foucault, then power functions automatically. "[T]he surveillance is permanent in its effects, even if it is discontinuous in its action; [ . . .] the perfection of power should tend to render its actual exercise unnecessary.
~ Kai Strittmatter
I'm discovering so much about how invisible, othered and dismissed the Islamic world is, in terms of the massive effects it had on European music and culture.
~ Rhiannon Giddens
Together they forged a new world based on new ideas—what became known as the Renaissance. As a result, the city became the epicenter of a creative explosion, one of the most innovative eras in history. The effects of the Medici family can be felt even to this day.
~ Frans Johansson
At any rate, I can only see such a success having positive effects for everyone, particularly as our anticipation of the World cup would only increase further.
~ Franz Beckenbauer
Trade protection accumulates upon a single point the good which it effects, while the evil inflicted is infused throughout the mass. The one strikes the eye at a first glance, while the other becomes perceptible only to close investigation.
~ Frederic Bastiat
Freedom granted only when it is known beforehand that its effects will be beneficial is not freedom.
~ Friedrich August von Hayek
This means that to entrust to science - or to deliberate control according to scientific principles - more than scientific method can achieve may have deplorable effects.
~ Friedrich August von Hayek
The so called unconscious inferences can be traced back to the all-preserving memory, which presents us with parallel experiences and hence already knows the consequences of an action. It is not anticipation of the effects; rather, it is the feeling: identical causes, identical effects .
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Buddhist morality includes everything we do. You can never know just how far-reaching the effects of your actions might be.
~ Brad Warner
Just as a man does not really desire food until he is hungry, so he does not desire the salvation of Christ until he knows why he needs Christ. No one adequately and properly knows why he needs Christ until he understands and accepts the doctrine of the Fall and its effects upon all mankind" ("Book of Mormon," 85).
~ Brad Wilcox
Trade and commerce, if they were not made of India-rubber, would never manage to bounce over obstacles which legislators are continually putting in their way; and if one were to judge these men wholly by the effects of their actions and not partly by their intentions, they would deserve to be classed and punished with those mischievous persons who put obstructions on the railroads.
~ Henry David Thoreau
if one were to judge these men wholly by the effects of their actions, and not partly by their intentions, they would deserve to be classed and punished with those mischievous persons who put obstructions on the railroads.
~ Henry David Thoreau
The extremes of grief and joy have been remarked to produce very similar effects; and when either of these rushes on us by surprize, it is apt to create such a total perturbation and confusion, that we are often thereby deprived of the use of all our faculties.
~ Henry Fielding
THE WHOLE ARGUMENT of this book may be summed up in the statement that in studying the effects of any given economic proposal we must trace not merely the immediate results but the results in the long run, not merely the primary consequences but the secondary consequences, and not merely the effects on some special group but the effects on everyone.
~ Henry Hazlitt