Top 1200 Butterfly Effect Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

Men do not knowingly drink for the effect alcohol produces on the body. What they drink for is the brain-effect; and if it must come through the body, so much the worse for the body.

Every event in this world is the effect of some precedent cause, and also the cause of some subsequent effect.

Green was the silence, wet was the light, the month of June trembled like a butterfly.

I'm Serena Williams on the court, but away I have so many different names. I call myself Butterfly.

According to the Law of Cause and Effect, every effect must have a cause. In other words, everything that happens has a catalyst; everything that came into being has something that caused it. Things don't just happen by themselves.

I define a Sign as anything which is so determined by something else, called its Object, and so determines an effect upon a person, which effect I call its Interpretant, that the latter is thereby mediately determined by the former.

I should like to present myself to the young painters of the year 2000 with the wings of a butterfly.

She was the prettiest, silliest, most affected, husband-hunting butterfly ever.

A power of Butterfly must be - The Aptitude to fly Meadows of Majesty concedes And easy Sweeps of Sky -

Voles-tu, mon petit papillon.” Illium laughed at Galen’s instruction to “fly, little butterfly

If the prior distribution, at which I am frankly guessing, has little or no effect on the result, then why bother; and if it has a large effect, then since I do not know what I am doing how would I dare act on the conclusions drawn?

Fighting has taught me that the caterpillar takes a while to turn into a majestic butterfly.

He is a male butterfly without the wings - the same kind of grace of a very young horse, so angular.

Nature forever puts a premium on reality. What is done for effect is seen to be done for effect; what is done for love is felt to be done for love. A man inspires affection and honor because he was not lying in wait for these.

We did that with people like Chris Rock, Woody Harrelson, and the environmentalist Julia Butterfly Hill.

When a butterfly flutters its wings in one part of the world, it can eventually cause a hurricane in another.

Although we have the potential to experience the freedom of a butterfly, we mysteriously prefer the small and fearful cocoon of ego.

This great purple butterfly, In the prison of my hands, Has a learning in his eye Not a poor fool understands.

I mean, everything that is upon this earth, even from a worm or a caterpillar that blossoms into a butterfly, you know, these things are just amazing.

They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods

I love the garishness of the '90s - the giant platform shoes, the sparkly butterfly tops, the chokers.

Open your heart and mind like the wings of a butterfly. See then how high you CAN fly.

I'm not like a social butterfly or anything, but I just miss seeing even my friends.

The belief in the '70s was that music was changing the world. I never believed that it had that great an effect. The effect Madonna had on fashion and sort of mores of young girls was a bigger deal than anything Dylan may have said, even.

I just woke up and found a large butterfly on me. When did that happen?

The essence of power is the knowledge that what you do is going to have an effect not just an immediate but perhaps a lifelong effect on the happiness and wellbeing of millions of people and so I think the essence of power is to be conscious of what it can mean for others.

I just keep thinking of how many times I`ve heard Ferguson effect. And I`ve heard it because of protests, officers are afraid to do their job because of - because of a YouTube effect.

Immortality is a ridiculous illusion, an empty word, a butterfly net chasing the wind.

What is a butterfly? At best He's but a caterpiller drest. The gaudy Fop's his picture just.

The term 'breakout' always makes me think of an inmate or some butterfly emerging out of a cocoon.

Sound is your friend because sound is much cheaper than picture, but it has equal effect on the audience - in some ways, perhaps more effect because it does it in a very indirect way.

It is hard to tell if capital punishment has such an effect. And even if, in some contexts it has (such as in the American South with a very high incidence of murder), this effect may very well go away if a decent welfare state was replaced for the existing social order.

No lepidopterist's collection in the entire world...full if iridescent wings, is worth the life of a single butterfly.

Suppose someone were to say: 'Imagine this butterfly exactly as it is, but ugly instead of beautiful'?!

Having done 'M. Butterfly,' I'm conscious of the choices women make with their clothes and makeup on screen.

If everyone is speaking caterpillar, don’t be afraid to speak butterfly. When it’s time to awaken, nothing else will suit you.

The only distinct meaning of the word "natural" is stated, fixed, or settled; since what is natural as much requires and presupposes an intelligent agent to render it so, i.e. to effect it continually or at stated times, as what is supernatural or miraculous does to effect it for once.

Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic, so the artist works.

The butterfly does not look back upon its caterpillar self, either fondly or wistfully; it simply flies on.

Children are caterpillars and adults are butterflies. No butterfly ever remembers what it felt like being a caterpillar.

Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout.

A butterfly symbolized acceptance of each new phase in life. To keep faith as everything around you changed.

In my iPod, there are many operas, from A to Z. I have 'Aida' and 'Boheme' and 'Butterfly' and 'Cavalleria'. My passion is for opera, but when I'm in the car, I listen to everything.

When Da Vinci wanted an effect, he willed, he planned the means to make it happen: that was the purpose of his machines. But the machines of Newton ... are means not for doing but for observing. He saw an effect, and he looked for its cause.

A special effect is a tool, a means of telling a story. A special effect without a story is a pretty boring thing.

Art creates an incomparable and unique effect, and, having done so, passes on to other things. Nature, upon the other hand, forgetting that that imitation can be made the sincerest form of insult, keeps on repeating this effect until we all become absolutely wearied of it.

A red brick Presbyterian church... captured by kudzu vines as surely as a butterfly in a net.

'M. Butterfly' is usually the answer to the question, 'What has been your favorite experience?' The reason being, it is an astonishing play.

One cannot quite trust the word of potted flowers," thought the butterfly; "they have too much to do with men.

Oh! To be a butterfly Still, upon a flower, Winking with its painted wings, Happy in the hour.

This is the effect of panic, a natural effect, you could say that animal nature is like this, plant life would behave in exactly the same way, too, if it did not have all those roots to hold it in the ground, and how nice it would be to see the trees of the forest fleeing the flames.

The air is like a butterfly With frail blue wings. The happy earth looks at the sky And sings.

I never really got obsessed about one thing for long. I was a bit of a butterfly and a magpie.

Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.

It can be dismaying, all the same, for a novelist to compare the slowness of the writing with the speed of the reading. Novels are read in a matter of days, even hours. A writer may labor for weeks over a particular passage that will have its effect on a reader for an instant - and that effect may be subliminal or barely noticed.

We have known about the placebo effect for many years. This is a remarkable effect - placebo can cure 30 percent in many cases.

The possibilities for immortality are endless. Here you sit reading these words, a butterfly resting on a flower!

I often felt better as soon as I swallowed my vitamin C, long before it had time to take effect. Medical researchers call it 'placebo effect'; I prefer to call it magic, for it occurs when something - a pill or a word - is imbued with power and meaning, and so it becomes effective. That is alchemy.

Am I a human dreaming I am a butterfly or a butterfly dreaming I am a human?

If the butterfly wings its way to the sweet light that attracts it, it's only because it doesn't know that the fire can consume it.