I spent, as you know, a year and a half in a clergyman's family and heard almost every Tuesday the very best, most earnest and most impressive preacher it has ever been my fortune to meet with, but it produced no effect whatever on my mind.
~By Alfred Russel Wallace ~
Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers, which are always repulsed by the anvil.
~By Claude Adrien Helvetius ~
Rock musicians, and a vast array of popular-music musicians, due to their wealth, acquired through the mass of their notoriety, are able to be listened to and heard and thus are able to effect change on an international level.
~By Bill Dixon ~
The main American naval forces were shifted to the Pacific region and an American admiral made a strong declaration to the effect that if war were to break out between Japan and the United States, the Japanese navy could be sunk in a matter of weeks.
~By Hideki Tojo ~
Secondly, the nature of the revolutions which have altered the surface of the earth must have had a more decisive effect on the terrestrial quadrupeds than on the marine animals.
~By George Cuvier ~
I think any advocate who is effective has fully acquainted himself or herself with the legislator they are going to meet. Know what committees they are on, what issues they are interested in, all in an effort to build a bridge for communicating with them.
~By Mark Shields ~
Technology makes things faster and more cost-effective, but it's not perfect. It requires you to be as flexible as you can be.
~By John Phillips ~
As for the promotion of peace congresses we have had our meetings and assemblies, but the promotion through them of the determined and effective will to peace displaying itself in action and policy remains to be achieved.
~By Lester B. Pearson ~
The effectiveness of advertising depends on the amount and kind of product information available to consumers... advertising will be more successful the more impoverished the consumer's information environment.
~By Michael Schudson ~
The conscious purpose of science is control of Nature; its unconscious effect is disruption and chaos.
~By William Irwin Thompson ~
Illegal immigration is not just a matter of interest in states along our border with Mexico. It is having an effect on local economies, schools, health care delivery, and public safety all across the country.
~By Roger Wicker ~
Shame is a fitter and generally a more effectual punishment for a child than beating.
~By Samuel Richardson ~
I believe we are going to move into a situation where the more effective conferences will be smaller, more specialized, more focused, with occasional large gatherings to get the attention of the larger world.
~By Maurice Strong ~
The state of Israel must, from time to time, prove clearly that it is strong, and able and willing to use force, in a devastating and highly effective way. If it does not prove this, it will be swallowed up, and perhaps wiped off the face of the earth.
~By Moshe Sharett ~
What we do want to see is reforms that are going to have a permanent effect on the budget deficit.
~By Ed Parker ~
In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic.
~By Hosea Ballou ~
Strong men have sound ideas and the force to make these ideas effective.
~By Andrew Mellon ~
Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
Laura Bush went on national television during the week of my father's funeral and spoke out against embryonic stem cell research, pointing out that where Alzheimer's is concerned, we don't have proof that stem-cell treatment would be effective.
~By Patti Davis ~
The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.
~By Washington Irving ~
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
~By Herbert Spencer ~
It was not simply out of a spirit of contradiction that I exposed a light source to magnetic forces. The idea came to me during an investigation of the effect discovered by Kerr on light reflected by magnetic mirrors.
~By Pieter Zeeman ~
I wanted the players to feel like they were part of a family, to be conscious of that controlled togetherness as they made that slow entrance onto the field. It had a great psychological effect on the opposing team, too. They'd never seen anything like it.
~By Hayden Fry ~
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.
~By Sam Ervin ~
What do you want to get done? In what order of importance? Over what period of time? What is the time available? What is the best strategy for application of time to projects for the most effective results?
~By Ted W. Engstrom ~
There is a need for more effective dialogue... between the government and the international community.
~By Kjell Magne Bondevik ~
Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities.
~By Lord Dunsany ~
The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary works have been translated into other languages.
~By Naguib Mahfouz ~
The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.
~By John Adams ~
I'm very confident that the solutions that we are developing are going to be effective not only in application in Iraq, but also will be very helpful for potential homeland security situations as well.
~By Geoff Davis ~
When I say something untrue on the air, I mean for it to be transparently untrue. I assume people know when I'm just saying something for effect. Or to be funny.
~By Ira Glass ~
I played the tuba in high school. I wanted to be a member of the marching band. I thought, what can I play that has the most effect? What can I play to get people to laugh?
~By Patti LuPone ~
I drink for the effect, because it loosens up the tongue a little bit.
~By Peter Steele ~
Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight.
~By Josh Billings ~
As children we recognized that we belonged to an unusual, even exceptional, family, but the effect was different on each of us.
~By David Rockefeller ~
I'm going to be a vice president very much like George Bush was. He proved to be a very effective vice president, perhaps the most effective we've had in a couple of hundred years.
~By Dan Quayle ~
A security cam is one small part of a much larger universe of cams. The much larger effect, socially, politically and economically, is going to come from a much larger trend.
~By Bruce Sterling ~
Most individuals have always thought themselves not big enough or significant enough to have an effect on the whole planet, a notion which conversely made them think they could afford big arrogance and big greed over its resources.
~By Lynette Fromme ~
The news is what it is. It's going to be good, it's going to be positive, it's going to be negative. It's going to have all sorts of effects on candidates always.
~By Mark E. Hyman ~
Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.
~By Aldous Huxley ~
I believe there is no doctrine more dangerous to the Church today than to convey the impression that a revival is something peculiar in itself and cannot be judged by the same rules of causes and effect as other things.
~By Billy Sunday ~
Democrats' attack on the Republican majority leader is nothing but a coordinated agenda to stop an effective leader from accomplishing the people's business.
~By Bill Shuster ~
But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That's why I call it the most social of the various art forms.
~By Wole Soyinka ~
An effective human being is a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts.
~By Ida P. Rolf ~
Well, in pharmacology, if the effect is local, it's of course absolutely awkward to use it in any other way than as a local treatment.
~By Arvid Carlsson ~
We're more effective than birth control pills.
~By Johnny Carson ~
I like doing as many special effects in camera, as much as possible.
~By Matthew Vaughn ~
You cannot of yourself move your arm or alter your position, situation, posture, do to other men good or evil, or effect the least change in the world.
~By Nicolas Malebranche ~
My impression was, he's walking as though he's made of glass, and if you should touch him he would just shatter apart. I don't know if it was an act or what, but it sure was effective.
~By Robert Ripley ~
There are many examples in high schools which show something about the effects such competition might have.
~By James S. Coleman ~
Based on the laws of physics, the effect on temperature of man's contribution to atmospheric CO2 levels is minuscule and indiscernible from the natural variability caused in large part by changes in solar energy output.
~By Robert L. Scotto ~
In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers, always on trial for their political lives, always required to court their restless constituents.
~By Walter Lippmann ~
Summer movies are spectacles; that's what you pay 10 dollars to see. You want to get teased by effects sometimes. I think that will never stop.
~By Jan de Bont ~
Personally, I don't think the film and television industries are run as well as they used to be. Oh sure, we've got great digital effects now but... where are the visionaries?
~By Bill Mumy ~
It is almost impossible for anyone, even the most ineffective among us, to continue to choose misery after becoming aware that it is a choice.
~By William Glasser ~
I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is opposed to every instinct in my body. But as president I must put the interests of America first Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow.
~By Richard M. Nixon ~
Success depends almost entirely on how effectively you learn to manage the game's two ultimate adversaries: the course and yourself.
~By Jack Nicklaus ~
And we broadcast tapes sent to us from Americans against the war. These were most effective I believe.
~By Hanoi Hannah ~
Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.
~By Norman Cousins ~
Men have been found to deny woman intellect; they have credited her with instinct, with intuition, with a capacity to correlate cause and effect much as a dog connects its collar with a walk.
~By W. L. George ~
The ill effects of thought come about when we forget that thought is a function of our consciousness... an ability that we as human beings have. We are the producers of our own thinking.
~By Richard Carlson ~
Basically, I have no place in organized politics. By coming to the British Parliament, I've allowed the people to sacrifice me at the top and let go the more effective job I should be doing at the bottom.
~By Bernadette Devlin ~
The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.
~By Andre Maurois ~
I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.
~By James Russell Lowell ~
Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is achieved - commitment to a scenario.
~By Jean Baudrillard ~
Teaching to unsuspecting youngsters the effective use of formal methods is one of the joys of life because it is so extremely rewarding.
~By Edsger Dijkstra ~
I could have done a hundred songs, really. It was hard to narrow them down, because I tried to pick songs for the most part that actually did have some effect on me or influenced me in the past.
~By Alan Jackson ~
To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things.
~By Ansel Adams ~
I think the long-term effect of video on cinema is good in that what we are now getting up there on the screen is of superior quality. Videos are just so much more sensitive to the world.
~By Ann Macbeth ~
Sincerity is not only effective and honourable, it is also much less difficult than is commonly supposed.
~By George Henry Lewes ~
Effective use of Braille is as important to the blind as independent mobility, knowledge in the use of adaptive technology, and the core belief that equality, opportunity and security are truly possible for all people who are blind.
~By Bob Ney ~
As an example, one of the schools I have been studying is too small to compete effectively in most sports, but participates with vigor each year in the state music contests.
~By James S. Coleman ~
The effectiveness of our memory banks is determined not by the total number of facts we take in, but the number we wish to reject.
~By Jon Wynne-Tyson ~
My instinct as a philosopher is that we are effectively approaching a multicentric world, which means we need to ask new, and for the traditional left, unpleasant questions.
~By Slavoj Zizek ~
The women's movement is taking a different form right now, and it is because it has been so effective and so successful that there's a huge counter movement to try to stop it, to try to divide women from one another, to try to almost foment divisiveness.
~By Carol Gilligan ~
What makes a story is how well it manages to connect with the reader, the visceral effect it has.
~By Len Wein ~
A more effective international disease surveillance system is essential for global security both against a bioterrorist attack or a naturally occurring disease.
~By Daniel Akaka ~
Circumstances give in reality to every political principle, its distinguishing colour, and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.
~By David Trimble ~
You all know how powerful and varied are the effects of which steam engines are capable; with them has really begun the great development of industry which has characterised our century before all others.
~By Hermann von Helmholtz ~
You see an absolutely brilliant film later, as an adult, and you walk out thinking about what to have for dinner. Whereas something like Jaws winds up having a huge effect on me. If only my parents had been taking me to Kurosawa films when I was eight, but no.
~By Ann Patchett ~
First person narrative is a very effective tool but you have to know as a writer how to make it work.
~By James McBride ~
Gold and silver are no doubt subject to fluctuations, from the discovery of new and more abundant mines; but such discoveries are rare, and their effects, though powerful, are limited to periods of comparatively short duration.
~By David Ricardo ~
Extremely strong, effective, tenacious, and powerful political networks can be built when you fight losing battles as well as when you win.
~By Patricia Ireland ~
Israel is still the only country in the world against which there is a written document to the effect that it must disappear.
~By Menachem Begin ~
Republicans are pushing legislation forward that will improve the effectiveness of and bring more accountability to U.S. foreign assistance around the world and bring democracy even further into the light.
~By Virginia Foxx ~
One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression.
~By Howard Zinn ~
I see so much more than I used to see. The effect has been to depress and sadden and hurt me terribly.
~By Zane Grey ~
Peace and commerce with foreign nations could be more effectually and cheaply cultivated by a common agent; therefore they gave the Federal Government the sole management of our relations with foreign governments.
~By Robert Toombs ~
Other effects in the show included models of the ships which were extremely expensive to make. We used to do our shots in front of a blue screen and they'd put the effects on after.
~By Gil Gerard ~
For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.
~By Arthur Conan Doyle ~
Death is not only an unusually severe punishment, unusual in its pain, in its finality and in its enormity, but is serves no penal purpose more effectively than a less severe punishment.
~By William J. Brennan ~
The first war zone was declared by Great Britain. She gave us and the world notice of it on the 4th day of November, 1914. The zone became effective Nov. 5, 1914.
~By George William Norris ~
I found it to be more challenging to be in a huge effects movie, because a lot of the things aren't there.You have to trust the director and react to nothing.
~By Katie Holmes ~
Nothing is more effective than sincere, accurate praise, and nothing is more lame than a cookie-cutter compliment.
~By Bill Walsh ~
It is with pain that I read of the dire effects of my book upon the minds of young girls.
~By Mary MacLane ~
If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.
~By Frank Herbert ~
Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity. Surrealism to me is reality.
~By John Lennon ~
It's more fun if you can control things like lighting and make special effects in the darkroom.
~By Lacey Chabert ~
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