Effect Quotes

It becomes a giant's task to compute the result when the effect of cross seas, wind at all angles and ever varying force, arched surfaces, head resistance, ratio of weight to area, and the intelligence of the guiding power crop up.

In order to effect great change, we need to look at how we can help those in our own communities as well as globally.

The money when you're having a hit is great, but money can be taken from you. What can't be taken from you is the talent and the effect your work has.

I've been around some very famous people, but no one has the effect Maradona has; people tremble in his presence.

When the Promise of American life is conceived as a national ideal, whose fulfillment is a matter of artful and laborious work, the effect thereof is substantially to identify the national purpose with the social problem.

Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.

You can hardly judge women's effect on politics merely from the action of individual women officeholders.

Cause and effect, the riddle of all history, is a particular devil in financial history; and never more so than today, where entire classes of security are collapsing not on public exchanges and stock-tickers but because there are no markets to establish prices this side of nothing.

We need, in effect, to make the phantom 'lock-boxes' around the trust fund real.

With the question of the effect of a poem, the topic of investigation shifts from that of textual autonomy to textual reception - to the issue of what we actually look for or find in reading a poem.

I'm not a good enough singer to pull off the effect.

It would be great to take one city street and turn it into a pedestrian corridor and see what kind of effect it has on the businesses in that area - It's the future I think.

In a society which is structured the wrong way, piety has no effect.

Companies operating in urban communities have a tremendous ripple effect.

It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity. It is time to separate unchangeable morals from local manners.

In the 1950s we use to feel that television was taking away our comic readership; with today's exciting, powerfully visual movies I have to wonder about their effect on the kids' loyalty to the comic book medium all over again.

My grandmother had the most dramatic effect on my life because she set me in one direction, and I had to go back the other direction for my sanity, and for my ability to be a social human being.

None of those jobs were high-profile, but once I was on ET, people then began to associate me with that show. So, that is the thing that many people know me for. When in effect, that was the end of my television career.

Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.

Nonviolent action does not have to get others to be nice. It can in effect force them to consult their consciences.

The effect of violent dislike between groups has always created an indifference to the welfare and honor of the state.

And the annual meetings of the League's Assembly are in effect official peace congresses binding on the participating states to an extent that most statesmen a quarter of a century ago would have regarded as utopian.

Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress.

My bravery however was the effect of assurance for could I have believed the current report, I should have fled as fast as any man, no man can possibly have a greater reluctance to an intimacy with Sir William Howe than my Self.

The half minute which we daily devote to the winding-up of our watches is an exertion of labour almost insensible; yet, by the aid of a few wheels, its effect is spread over the whole twenty-four hours.

Almost all of us growing up have played baseball on some level. It has an inside track with people. It has a unifying effect.

But, on the other hand, the occasional and precarious dripping of coppers has by no means a genial effect.

The art of coalition command - whether it is here in Afghanistan, whether it was in Iraq or in Bosnia or in Haiti - is to take the resources you are provided with, understand what the strengths and weaknesses are and to employ them to the best overall effect.

I am for an art that takes into account the direct effect of the elements as they exist from day to day apart from representation.

Dr. King's Nobel Prize had a more powerful transforming effect on him than I think he realized at the time.