Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.
So the stock market could have a negative wealth effect and weigh on capital spending, but a sharp decline in long-term interest rates would be an important counterweight.
Every effect that one produces gives one an enemy. To be popular one must be a mediocrity.
Since light is best expressed through differences in color quality, color should not be handled as a tonal gradation, to produce the effect of light.
Insure the uninsured. Effect of Obamacare to date: Uninsure the insured.
But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.
The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.
The imagination is to the effect as the shadow to the opaque body which causes the shadow.
I'm sometimes asked why it is that for 30 years we seem to have trouble in the United States enforcing the rules against illegal immigration, and I'll tell you what the answer is. The answer is that when the television cameras turn off and the spotlight moves to something else, there are a host of interest groups and advocacy groups who work very, very hard to make it difficult to enforce these rules. I'm not commenting adversely on their motivation, but I can tell you the effect of all of this is to wear down the ability of an agency to enforce the law.
Twitter does have an effect on everything - things you put out there, they are out there for good.
There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.
The stupidity of a stupid man is exercised in a restricted field; the stupidity of an intelligent man has a much wider diffusion, and a far greater effect, aided as it is by the element of surprise.
To be able to have an effect on someone's life is extraordinary.
To promote laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect.
I actually don't have. . . opinions. I'm not being secretive about anything. I just actually don't have opinions about society. I can discern that certain things have an effect on certain other things but I don't view those effects as good or bad.
Every thought, feeling, and emotion creates a molecule known as a neuropeptide. Neuropeptides travel throughout your body and hook onto receptor sites of cells and neurons. Your brain takes in the information, converts it into chemicals, and lets your whole body know if there's trouble in the world or cause for celebration. Your body is directly influenced as these molecules course through the bloodstream, delivering the energetic effect of whatever your brain is thinking and feeling.
The effect of sailing is produced by a judicious arrangement of the sails to the direction of the wind.
College had little effect on me. I'd have been the same writer if I'd gone to MIT, except I'd have flunked out sooner.
When I was a kid, hip-hop had that effect on me, it was escape and it showed me a different way of life.
It has been my experience that the hearings are really, in effect, a subtle minuet, with the nominee answering as many questions as he thinks necessary in order to be confirmed.