For diplomacy to be effective, words must be credible - and no one can now doubt the word of America.
~By George W. Bush ~
No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.
~By Karl Popper ~
I want to have some effect on the way the world works in whatever way I can, and I also want to have the power to help get the movies that I think are important made.
~By Maggie Gyllenhaal ~
The last Hague Conference has in the meantime expressed its opinion that a body should be established which could prepare for the work involved more effectively than has hitherto proved possible.
~By Fredrik Bajer ~
What we're putting forward is the most radical reform of the welfare state... for 60 years. I think it will have a transformative effect in making sure that everyone is better off in work and better off working rather than on benefits.
~By David Cameron ~
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.
~By John Tesh ~
You can eliminate, for example, a Brazil nut gene if you know that it will create an allergenic effect.
~By Jeremy Rifkin ~
As you can appreciate over my lifetime I've developed a large vocabulary of sounds each requiring certain physical techniques often combined with a specific effect box.
~By Adrian Belew ~
I'm officially middle-aged. I don't need drugs anymore, thank God. I can get the same effect just by standing up real fast.
~By Jonathan Katz ~
Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery.
~By R. Buckminster Fuller ~
Today, everything has to be made by committee, and has to have special effects, but there's always room for good films.
~By Robert Duvall ~
First person narrative is a very effective tool but you have to know as a writer how to make it work.
~By James McBride ~
Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer's own life.
~By Eudora Welty ~
Given that, and assuming that we begin to adjust to issues like climate change and the greenhouse effect, Denver's location in the center of the country becomes a tremendous advantage.
~By John Hickenlooper ~
Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.
~By P. J. O'Rourke ~
My passion and great enjoyment for architecture, and the reason the older I get the more I enjoy it, is because I believe we - architects - can effect the quality of life of the people.
~By Richard Rogers ~
Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance.
~By Vaclav Havel ~
Sincerity is not only effective and honourable, it is also much less difficult than is commonly supposed.
~By George Henry Lewes ~
United States is a great Country and has its effective role on the international arena, so we have to boost our relations with it, in order to achieve peace and stability in our region and the world.
~By Ali A. Saleh ~
Effective security measures do not come cheap.
~By Arlen Specter ~
You don't have to be noisy to be effective.
~By Phil Crosby ~
Try to help others. Consult their weaknesses, relieve their maladies; strive to raise them up, and by so doing you will most effectually raise yourself up also.
~By Joseph Barber Lightfoot ~
I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify.
~By Kareem Abdul-Jabbar ~
Any doctor will admit that any drug can have side effects, and that writing a prescription involves weighing the potential benefits against the risks.
~By Mark Udall ~
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.
~By Horace ~
To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect upon myself is to live on the doorstep of hell.
~By Thomas Merton ~
Enquire what the effect of large endowments are upon colleges.
~By Ezra Cornell ~
Buddhism has had a major effect on who I am and how I think about the world. What I have learned is that I like all religions, but only parts of them.
~By Uma Thurman ~
If we don't have accurate information, if we are not able to tell difficult truth one to another, we will never be able to effectively design a policy for Iraq.
~By Jack Reed ~
The only way you do anything is to become really active. And the most effective way to get your message to your elected representatives is to make campaign contributions and develop relationships with them.
~By Krist Novoselic ~
The story drove the book. That had a very seminal effect on the way I saw writing and storytelling. If you can set a character in a story that is compelling and has a backbone, you draw people in.
~By Dick Wolf ~
I have learned to pare down what I do and still be effective and strong in a role.
~By Mira Sorvino ~
Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon.
~By Carl Hiaasen ~
I'm against the draft. I believe we should have a professional military; it might be smaller, but it would be more effective.
~By Jesse Ventura ~
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.
~By Stone Gossard ~
I am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization - or at least before the effects of the poison began to be felt.
~By Orson Scott Card ~
I did have an offer to direct one of the Alien movies but I wasn't too excited about all the effects work.
~By Walter Hill ~
The general fact is that the most effective way of utilizing human energy is through an organized rivalry, which by specialization and social control is, at the same time, organized co-operation.
~By Charles Horton Cooley ~
If you have enthusiasm, you have a very dynamic, effective companion to travel with you on the road to Somewhere.
~By Loretta Young ~
Barge traffic on the Mississippi River represents the most efficient, most cost-effective, most environmentally sound means of transporting commodity goods from this region of the country to market.
~By Leonard Boswell ~
It gives me pleasure to find that public liberty is effectually secured in each and all the policies of the United States, though somewhat differently modeled.
~By Ezra Stiles ~
The office of President is a great one; to every true American it seems the greatest on earth. And to me, as I was engaged in weaving a background of music for the pageantry of it, there came a deeper realization of the effect of that office on the man.
~By John Philip Sousa ~
With our national savings rate well below one-percent, it is imperative that the government embrace innovative and cost-effective means of boosting personal savings.
~By Jim Cooper ~
The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.
~By Albert Einstein ~
We can no longer stand for the Security Council passing resolutions and then in effect heaving alongside and taking a vacation. We cannot leave it to the secretary general to go cap in hand.
~By Alex Morrison ~
We cannot and will not ban the creation of violent video games. But, we can prevent the distribution of these disturbing games to children, where their effects can be negative.
~By Herb Kohl ~
Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.
~By Adam Weishaupt ~
If the constitutional treaty is rejected it will be back to square one, just at a time when we want Europe to be a more effective force for good in the world, when we need to buttress ourselves against the pressures and insecurities of globalization.
~By Peter Mandelson ~
Depakote also has a really bad side effect, which is death.
~By Margot Kidder ~
Vegas is everything that's right with America. You can do whatever you want, 24 hours a day. They've effectively legalized everything there.
~By Drew Carey ~
The question of feasibility, the question of cost, the question of including partners elsewhere in the world, the question of the effect of this project on arms agreements - all these issues are in discussion.
~By Gerhard Schroder ~
The atomic bomb certainly is the most powerful of all weapons, but it is conclusively powerful and effective only in the hands of the nation which controls the sky.
~By Lyndon B. Johnson ~
Social Security has been effective for 70 years; prior predictions of its demise have been totally overstated.
~By Grace Napolitano ~
And the issues I think are important in Louisiana right now happen to be health care and education. And those are two areas that the federal government can play a very important role. And I think I can be effective in trying to help our state from the Washington scene.
~By John Breaux ~
You've done it before and you can do it now. See the positive possibilities. Redirect the substantial energy of your frustration and turn it into positive, effective, unstoppable determination.
~By Ralph Marston ~
You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself.
~By James A. Baldwin ~
The investigation into the possible effects of cosmic rays on living organisms will also offer great interest.
~By Victor Francis Hess ~
If we don't take effective measures now, the Netherlands could be torn between two extreme rights.
~By Ayaan Hirsi Ali ~
Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.
~By Joseph Stalin ~
No action is without its side effects.
~By Barry Commoner ~
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
~By Toni Cade Bambara ~
I personally believe this Agency has always been very dedicated and has always worked as hard as it possibly can to do things as safely and as effectively as possible.
~By Mark Kelly ~
The divine law indeed has excluded women from this ministry, but they endeavour to thrust themselves into it; and since they can effect nothing of themselves, they do all through the agency of others.
~By John Chrysostom ~
A business of high principle generates greater drive and effectiveness because people know that they can do the right thing decisively and with confidence.
~By Marvin Bower ~
The cause is hidden; the effect is visible to all.
~By Ovid ~
We must work to stabilize Social Security. We must not gamble with our nation's social insurance program, one of our most popular and effective federal programs that has remained dependable and stable for the past 70 years.
~By Grace Napolitano ~
From the outset of the war, the Canadian people have clearly shown that it is their desire to help in every way to make Canada's war effort as effective as possible.
~By William Lyon Mackenzie King ~
It is apparent that Christianity and Islam must come, and come immediately, to a closer understanding, and it is equally apparent that their unity if achieved, will be the most effective defensive measure against Communist expansion.
~By Aly Khan ~
While one party may possess the levers of power, one party does not possess a monopoly on good ideas. Good lawmaking, after all, is about the ability to craft effective solutions.
~By Bill Owens ~
Now the truth is, a president really can't control the economy, although his policies do have some effect on it.
~By Paul Weyrich ~
It is in the power of every individual to do that which the community as a whole is powerless to effect.
~By William Thomas Stead ~
When we think of the state of the economy, we are not thinking in terms of money flow. We are thinking in terms of the effect on everyday lives of people.
~By Daw Aung San Suu Kyi ~
The secret of all effective advertising is not the creation of new and tricky words and pictures, but one of putting familiar words and pictures into new relationships.
~By Leo Burnett ~
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.
~By Henry B. Adams ~
The question at the end of the day was, the courts having found there was no defense, a producer about to go to jail, should CBS in effect tell the producer go to jail even though there is no law at all that we can use to get you out of jail?
~By Floyd Abrams ~
That was fun to play. There were some nice special effects coupled with some really nice moments with child and wife. I also was able to age to about 100 years in 'Brief Candle.'
~By Richard Dean Anderson ~
To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.
~By Robert Burton ~
The final upshot of thinking is the exercise of volition, and of this thought no longer forms a part; but belief is only a stadium of mental action, an effect upon our nature due to thought, which will influence future thinking.
~By Charles Sanders Peirce ~
There are many examples in high schools which show something about the effects such competition might have.
~By James S. Coleman ~
After September 11, when the United States took action to overthrow the Taliban, our interests and Iran's aligned, and we were able to coordinate quietly but effectively.
~By Earl Blumenauer ~
The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple.
~By Freeman Dyson ~
To me success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world - that I am able to change it in positive ways.
~By Maxine Hong Kingston ~
Few can believe that suffering, especially by others, is in vain. Anything that is disagreeable must surely have beneficial economic effects.
~By John Kenneth Galbraith ~
We look into mirrors but we only see the effects of our times on us - not our effects on others.
~By Pearl Bailey ~
The high price of health care in this country is a serious issue that demands serious attention. Putting limits on damages have little or no effect on skyrocketing malpractice insurance rates.
~By Mary Landrieu ~
In reality there is no cause or effect, there is only the indifference of the universe.
~By Al Goldstein ~
I believe that there are still people who believe that game music is something equal to just an effect incorporated into the game, something like a BGM. And therefore this is something that I would like to show that is not true.
~By Nobuo Uematsu ~
She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.
~By Florence Nightingale ~
When we, through our educational culture, through the media, through the entertainment culture, give our children the impression that human beings cannot control their passions, we are telling them, in effect, that human beings cannot be trusted with freedom.
~By Alan Keyes ~
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 ~
One, I am skeptical of the effectiveness of nutritional supplements.
~By Michael Shermer ~
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 ~
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.
~By Friedrich August von Hayek ~
For, with pure water the inversion of cane sugar scarcely proceeds and subsequently it required very thorough, difficult studies before this effect and its order of magnitude were established.
~By Wilhelm Ostwald ~
In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature.
~By Edmund Burke ~
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 ~
I had been living with dialysis for three years or so, and the new kidney felt like a reprieve, a new gift of life. I felt alive again and I guess that has had an effect on my use of colour.
~By Peter Wright ~
In a way, you might say that David Duke is the son of Willie Horton. Duke is more overt, of course, but he's really just pushing the same buttons and sending the same coded messages that the Horton ads did so effectively for the Bush campaign last year.
~By Judd Rose ~
The law increasing and organizing the military establishment of the United States has been nearly carried into effect, and the Army has been extensively and usefully employed during the past season.
~By Martin Van Buren ~
Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty: that what we believe is not necessarily true; that what we like is not necessarily good; and that all questions are open.
~By Clive Bell ~
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