| "Volumes are now being written and spoken about the effect of the mind on the body -- I wish more was thought of the effect of the body on the mind." »Florence Nightingale |
| "If we can not trust a freeman with his right to keep and bear arms, then how can we trust him with the right to vote. Surely the right of a freeman to vote has a much greater effect on our collective lives than does any individual's firearm. If one argues that the effect of any one freeman's vote is minimal, then why allow it in the first place To be armed is to secure one's right to representation." »Thomas Mincher |
| "The cause is hidden. The effect is visible to all." »Ovid |
| "What we do today, right now, will have an accumulated effect on all our tomorrows." »Alexandra Stoddard |
| "Self-denial is not a virtue it is only the effect of prudence on rascality." »George Bernard Shaw |
| "Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly." »Quintilian |
| "Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind." »F Scott |
| "What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error." »Raymond Claud Ferdinan Aron |
| ""What you do today and tomorow has an effect on the rest of your life"" »Molly Ackermann |
| "The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self-activity." »Thomas Carlyle |
| "The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "We never know how far reaching something we may think, say, or do today will effect the lives of millions tomorrow." »Dr. B. J. Palmer |
| "The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder." »Albert Einstein |
| "From without, no wonderful effect is wrought within ourselves, unless some interior, responding wonder meets it." »Daisy Bates |
| "To judge the real importance of an individual, we should think of the effect his death would produce." »Peter de Gaston Levis |
| "Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant." »Horace |
| "Patience and perserverence have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish." »John Quincy Adams |
| "Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit." »W. Somerset Maugham |
| "It is common error to infer that things which are consecutive in order of time have necessarily the relation of cause and effect." »Jacob Bigelow |
| "See first that the design is wise and just that ascertained, pursue it resolutely do not for one repulse forego the purpose that you resolved to effect." »William Shakespeare |
| "Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls." »Gaston Bachelard |
| "The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies." »Henry Adams |
| "The pain of a disappointed wish necessarily produces less effect upon the mind if a man has not certainly promised himself success. - De Tranquillitate Animi" »Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
| "If the many allegations made to this date are true, then the burglars who broke into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate were, in effect, breaking into the home of every citizen." »Sam James Ervin, Jr. |
| "There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave." »Louis Kronenberger |
| "And the work of righteousness shall be peace and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever." »Bible |
| "It has always seemed to me extreme presumptuousness on the part of those who want to make human ability the measure of what nature can and knows how to do, since, when one comes down to it, there is not one effect in nature, no matter how small, that eve" »Galileo Galilei |
| "Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "On a good day, I view the job of president as directing an orchestra. On the dark days, it is more like that of a clutch-engaging the engine to effect forward motion, while taking greater friction." »A Bartlett Giamatti |
| "One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year." »Albert Einstein |
| BTW, Why won't you become an editor? |
