[Happiness is] a ghost, it’s a shadow. You can’t really chase it. It’s a by-product, a very pleasant side effect to a life lived well.
We (the Chinese) eat food for its texture, the elastic or crisp effect it has on our teeth, as well as for fragrance, flavor and color.
I try to focus on eating seasonally and organic whenever possible. It can be a challenge, but it has a huge effect on my weight, my health, and the environment.
Adam Smith was aware of the way that economic interests could have a distorting and destructive effect both on the market and on politics.
It is an established scientific fact that monetary policy has had virtually no effect on output and employment in the U.S. since the formation of the Fed.
Mystery magnifies danger, as a fog the sun, the hand that warned Belshazzar derived its horrifying effect from the want of a body.
You must pray...without prayer, all the schooling in the world will not produce the effect God wants homeschooling to give.
Human beings are social creatures - not occasionally or by accident but always. Sociability is one of our lives as both cause and effect.
A plain narrative of any remarkable fact, emphatically related, has a more striking effect without the author's comment.
It's a morbid observation, but if every one on earth just stopped breathing for an hour, the greenhouse effect would no longer be a problem.
Sound creates an intimate effect: the sensation to feel the place. It makes the viewer enter. You have the liberty to hear what you want.
Paul Smith's artwork was so elegant and so graphic, so I think that's always had a strong effect on me, especially starting out.
Growing up, I saw my dad do charity work for children with health issues. That had a profound effect on me.
One effect of an individualistic culture that's poor at instilling mutual respect is that people jump more quickly to anger or violence.
The reformative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard, chiefly I think, because it is so satisfying to our sadistic impulses.
The cumulative effect of each person making a change in his or her own life will make a difference.
Offness yields a hypnotic effect. The brain can see simplistic patterns that lock and it's boring after a while. I don't cater to that.
As comedians, we have the opportunity to convey a message that will have an effect. The best can make you laugh and cry, the way musicians and actors can.
Acts of sacrifice and decency without regard to what's in it for you create a ripple effect. Ones that lift up families and communities, that spread opportunity.
...any effect to be successful must first be founded upon a simple method and then be performed with a direct to-the-point presentation.
In between effect and cause and just beyond the range of normal sight, this glittering joker was dancing in the dragon's jaws.
The doctrine of a material hell in its effect was to chill and deaden the sympathies, predispose men to inflict suffering, and to retard the march of civilization.
One of the books we read a few years ago that had a big effect on us was Repeated Takes by Michael Chanan.
The public is gullible. ... If [many satirists are] making the same joke, that's the danger. Then there's a solidifying effect and it becomes a truth.
My whole philosophy is working smarter and not harder. And making sure I'm using little effort and getting a huge effect.
My life has been full of external tragedies and if they have not left any visible effect on me, I owe it to the teaching of the Bhagavadgita.
Taxes can set the level of activity around which the economy fluctuates, but they have very little effect on the fluctuations themselves.
Despite hundreds of studies, cause-and-effect relationship between pornography and violence has never been satisfactorily proved.
It is the absolutism of theism, its pernicious influence upon humanity, its paralyzing effect upon thought and action, which Atheism is fighting with all its power.
Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly. He is like a watch of which the most that can be said is that its cosmetic effect is good.
You don't really realize the effect those things have on you when you're growing up but then when you look back you can see how they molded you.
I like to call someone a raving c**t every now and then, when it’s appropriate, for effect (...) ‘You cocksucker.’ I love that kind of language.
It may sound lovey-dovey, but there's research showing the positive effect of meditation on parts of the brain that control emotion.
Our focus is to get citizen astronauts to experience the 'overview effect,' return to Earth, and then impact their communities.
Ignorance of the law is no excuse in any country. If it were, the laws would lose their effect, because it can always be pretended.
How difficult it is to learn not to see like cameras, which has had such an effect on us. The camera sees everything at once. We don't.
I was astonished at the effect my successful landing in France had on the nations of the world. To me, it was like a match lighting a bonfire.
I certainly like it if the work is beautiful, but that's a surplus effect. I can only think about that after I consider how it's made.
He who is false to the present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and you will see the effect when the weaving of a life-time is unraveled.
The calmness and confidence I take into matches has an effect not only on our rivals but also on my team-mates, who are counting on me.
It is very easy to speak words of wisdom from a comfortable distance, when one sees no reality, no details, none of the effect on men's minds.
I think that there's something really powerful about the sun and its effect on the human psyche. I lived in a place with no windows for twelve years.
As creators, we feel constant demand for innovation from the world. This puts immense pressure on the creative process and oftentimes can have a dampening effect.
However, the Government has made it clear that we do not encourage the recruitment of teachers from developing nations where there may be an adverse effect on the economy.
Dark matter has a gravitation effect on other objects. You can't see it, you can't feel it, but you can watch something being pulled in its direction.
The life-world of human and animal experience, with colours, tastes, solid objects, is a perceptual effect of massed atoms.
Like the effect of advertising upon the customer, the methods of political propaganda tend to increase the feeling of insignificance of the individual voter.
To think in terms of what the effect of a story is going to be, as opposed to trying to discover its inner logic, is one of the fundamental dangers in the process.
Now all orators effect their demonstrative proofs by allegation either of enthymems or examples, and, besides these, in no other way whatever.
I'm not satisfied with the progress of the work, but I am happy that the talks are going on. It might have a negative effect if the United States joins.
I like to go to old versions and find out what effect beats and scales have on your body, how they can transport you.
Almost all of us growing up have played baseball on some level. It has an inside track with people. It has a unifying effect.
The Law of Diminishing Returns is true of everything in life, except sex, which seems endlessly repeatable with effect.
Silence and reserve suggest latent power. What some men think has more effect than what others say.
The newness effect of a new thing wears off in nine months to a year, but financial security can last a lifetime.
If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.
Giving and taking of orders modifies actions and results, but does not of itself effect a sharing of purposes, a communication of interests.
I think I never expected "Gender trouble" to have any particularly revolutionary effect so whatever effects it has, I'm always surprised.
There are times when I think that the reading I have done in the past has had no effect except to cloud my mind and make me indecisive
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