Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
How can one avoid despondency if one thinks of the anomalous Zeeman effect?
Nothing but widespread suffering will produce any effect on Congress
Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit cannot be severed; for the effect already blooms in the cause, the end preexists in the means, the fruit in the seed
The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.
Art to me is a humanitarian act and I believe that there is a responsibility that art should somehow be able to effect mankind, to make the word a better place.
The word well spoken, the deed fitly done, even by the feeblest or humblest, cannot help but have their effect. More or less, the effect is inevitable and eternal.
Art is not ideology. It is completely impossible to explain art on the basis of the homological relation that it is supposed to maintain with the real of history. The aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity. The aesthetic effect is certainly imaginary; but this imaginary is not the reflection of the real, since it is the real of this reflection.
I believe long habits of virtue have a sensible effect on the countenance.
It became sort of a snowball effect, with guys trying to deal in their own way with 911, whether it was drinking or whatever.
Things are very rudimentary as far as women's rights really go here, and it seems fine, but once you start scraping the surface, you start to see the ripple effect of how not having equal rights is so detrimental and how many mothers are single parents trying to raise their families.
Where no bondage is, there is no cause and effect.
Unless you're writing for a humorous effect, elves or space aliens and all creatures who aren't human should at least be as strange as, oh, the French.
C++ is the best example of second-system effect since OS360.
Sometimes, all it takes is your smile (even if forced) & a domino effect of smiles happen. . . infectious.
The stock market is but a mirror which provides an image of the underlying or fundamental economic situation. Cause and effect run from the economy to the stock market, never the reverse. In 1929 the economy was headed for trouble. Eventually that trouble was violently reflected in Wall Street.
Few souls understand what God would effect in them if they should give themselves entirely into his hands and allow his grace to act.
Even if you've had a negative effect on others in the past, you can turn that around and make your impact a positive one.
There are occasions when the general belief of the people, even though it be groundless, works its effect as sure as truth itself.
We are definitely living in the butterfly effect theory, where any change that is made in the past is going to have a very logical cause-and-effect ramification of the present.
