You are not free until your past has no effect on your future
In any series of elements to be controlled, a selected small fraction, in terms of numbers of elements, always accounts for a large fraction in terms of effect.
It did occur to me that the effect of good literature may be as dizzying as that of alcohol.
Excessive liberty and excessive servitude are equally dangerous, and produce nearly the same effect.
Whatever we do would likely happen before or during the events of Mass Effect 3, not after
Capra is an old-time movie craftsman, the master of every trick in the bag, and in many ways he is more at home with the medium than any other Hollywood director. But all of his details give the impression of contrived effect.
Hypotyposis is the rhetorical effect by which words succeed in rendering a visual scene.
In terms of effect on the world, it's very good that I've lived. And so I guess, if I could go back in time and prevent my birth, I wouldn't do it. But I sure wish I hadn't had so much pain.
It is naive to believe that a steady diet of blatant immorality, played out nightly in our living rooms, has no effect on people. I am always curious when individuals insist that what they watch on television or in movie theaters doesn't affect them. . . . Are we really to believe that hours, leading to years, of television viewing will not affect attitudes about everything from family life to appropriate sexual relations?
The effect of music is so very much more powerful and penetrating than is that of the other arts, for these others speak only of the shadow, but music of the essence.
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.
Cuba seems to have the same effect on US administrations as the full moon has on werewolves.
I wanted to start working on something that had a lasting effect.
I've always wanted to play with this idea - and I didn't want to leave it to the last season, but I wasn't quite sure when it was going to happen - of putting Jax [sons of Anarchy] at the head of the table and the ripple effect on the guys and the loyalties of it and where people land.
The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.
The pleasure of one's effect on other people still exists in age - what's called making a hit. But the hit is much rarer and made of different stuff.
Mostly I'm just writing books for the public, and so I try to describe for the public what the choices are, what they might have to expect in the future and so by warning people ahead of time maybe you have an effect.
The doctor-patient relationship is critical to the placebo effect.
To end the crisis [of gun violence], we have to regulate -or, in the case of handguns and assault weapons, completely ban -the product. We are far past the [point] where registration, licensing, safety training, background checks, or waiting periods will have much effect on firearms violence.
That which achieves its effect by accident is not art.