Affect Quotes
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But there is yet another form of this hidden heresy, and, paradoxically, it
can affect those who are proudest of their long-standing
and unimpeachable orthodoxy; heresy in the form
of indifference.
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More Affect Quotes
A revolution is coming — a revolution which will be peaceful if we are wise enough; compassionate if we care enough; successful if we are fortunate enough — But a revolution which is coming whether we will it or not. We can affect its character; we cannot alter its inevitability.
robert f. kennedy— Speech in the United States Senate (9 May 1966)
Little things affect little minds.
benjamin disraeli— 1845 Sybil, bk.3, ch.2.
Twice or thrice had I loved thee, Before I knew thy face or name; So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame Angels affect us oft, and worshipped be; Still when, to where thou wert, I came, Some lovely glorious nothing did I see.
john donne— c.1595-1605 'Air and Angels', collected in Songs and Sonnets (1633).
A Babylonish dialect Which learned pedants much affect.
— Canto I, line 93.
Some people do indeed say that Eratosthenes could not have inferred the true measure of the earth. Whether true or untrue, it cannot affect the truth of what I have written on the fixing of the quarters from which the different winds blow.
vitruvius— De architectura, Book I, Chapter VI, Section 11 (~15 BC).
States should practice multilateralism and abandon unilateral actions that adversely affect a democratic and equitable international order, refraining from the threat or use of force. They should apply international law uniformly, abandon overreliance on “positivism” and efforts to circumvent treaty obligations or invent loopholes. As “nature abhors a vacuum” (Spinoza, Ethics), human rights law abhors “legal black holes”
— United Nations General Assembly - Promotion of a democratic and equitable international order [23]
No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en; In brief, sir, study what you most affect.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew (c. 1593-94), Act I, scene 1, line 39.
Futurists believe that accelerating and convulsive changes will characterize our world for decades to come. These will affect profoundly every political institution, and every religious institution in its mission to relate faith to societal changes. Those who enter the twenty first century can expect a continuation and acceleration of this trend toward permanent resolution.
— Norman E. Thomas, in Toward the Twenty-first Century in Christian Mission: Essays in Honor of Gerald H. Anderson, Director, Overseas Ministries Study Center, New Haven, Connecticut, Editor, International Bulletin of Missionary Research, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 1993, p.363
Some people do indeed say that Eratosthenes could not have inferred the true measure of the earth. Whether true or untrue, it cannot affect the truth of what I have written on the fixing of the quarters from which the different winds blow.
— Chapter VI, Sec. 11 (Book I)
Though one eye may be very agreeable, yet as the prejudice has always run in favour of two, I would not wish to affect a singularity in that article.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan— 1775 Jack Absolute.The Rivals, act 3, sc.1.
Who said literature has no real power to affect history? Not Bolaño — for him, literature is an unnervingly protean, amoral force with uncanny powers of self-invention, self-justification and self-mythification. The mythmakers, he suggests, certainly do matter.
roberto bolaño— Stacy D'Erasmo, in "The Sound and the Führer" in The New York Times Book Review (24 February 2008)
We feel public misfortunes just so far as they affect our private circumstances, and nothing of this nature appeals more directly to us than the loss of money.
livy— Book XXX, sec. 44
I haven't felt the excitement of listening to as well as creating music along with reading and writing for too many years now. I feel guilty beyond words about these things. For example, when we're backstage and the lights go out and the manic roar of the crowds begins, it doesn't affect me the way in which it did for Freddy [sic] Mercury who seemed to love, relish in the love and adoration from the crowd, which is something I totally admire and envy.
freddie mercury— Kurt Cobain, in his suicide note (5 or 6 April 1994)
That which can affect our senses in any manner whatever, is termed matter.
siméon denis poisson— Introductory sentence of Siméon-Denis Poisson, translated by Henry Hickman Harte (1842). A Treatise of Mechanics. Longman and co. p. 1.
The government have only a small majority in the House of Commons. I want to make it quite clear that this will not affect our ability to govern. Having been charged with the duties of Government we intend to carry out those duties.
harold wilson— David Butler, Coalitions in British Politics (Macmillan, London, 1978), p. 99.Television broadcast, October 1964, after winning the general election.
Sad fancies do we then affect, In luxury of disrespect To our own prodigal excess Of too familiar happiness.
william wordsworth— Ode to Lycoris.
Speakers' nerves affect them in various ways. Some tremble, some become frenzied. I lose all confidence, and suffer from a leaden oppression that makes me wonder why I ever agreed to speak at all; the Tomb and the Conqueror Worm seem preferable to delivering the stupid and piffling speech I have so carefully prepared.
Robertson Davies— One Half of Robertson Davies (1989)
Arguments hardly affect the faithful- their beliefs have an entirely different foundation.
paul karl feyerabend— pg 212 (Conquest of Abundance (2001 [posthumous]))
A lot of political people, especially people on the left, have forgotten the importance of humor as an incredible weapon, and a vehicle through which to affect change.
Michael Moore— The Corporation (2004)
Age shouldn't affect you. It's just like the size of your shoes - they don't determine how you live your life! You're either marvellous or you're boring, regardless of your age.
morrissey— from "The cradle snatchers", article by Frank Worrall, Melody Maker (September 3, 1983)
It has never been natural, it has seldom been possible, in this country for learning to seek a place apart and hold aloof from affairs. It is only when society is old, long settled to its ways, confident in habit, and without self-questioning upon any vital point of conduct, that study can affect seclusion and despise the passing interests of the day.
— “Princeton for the Nation's Service” (21 October 1896).
At its 10th December Conference in Geneva the Future of Human Rights Forum endorsed new structures and mechanisms to advance the realization of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the General Assembly 65 years ago. Among important initiatives discussed by a high level panel was the creation of a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly aimed at empowering world citizens and giving them direct participation in the political processes that affect them. Democracy lives from consultation and participation and a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly can meaningfully advance this goal.
alfred de zayas— 2013 Future of Human Rights Forum [12]
Logical analysis applied to mental phenomenon shows that there is but one law of mind, namely that ideas tend to spread continuously and to affect certain others which stand to them in a peculiar relation of affectibility. In this spreading they lose intensity, and especially the power of affecting others, but gain generality and become welded with other ideas.
— Charles Sanders Peirce (1892) The Law of Mind.
The software architecture of a system supports the most critical requirements for the system. For example, if a system must be accessible from a wireless device, or if the business rules for a system change on a daily basis, then these requirements drastically affect the software architecture for the system. It is necessary for an organization to characterize software architectures and the level of qualities that their systems support to fully understand the implications of these systems on the overall enterprise architecture.
— James McGovern, Scott W. Ambler and M. E Stevens (2004) A Practical Guide to Enterprise Architecture. p. 36
Had he come we would have been really happy. This decision is taken because of [India's] internal political reasons, but it will not affect the success of this programme, we don't think it is a problem.
— Sri Lankan Foreign Minister, GL Pieris, told the BBC on Sunday that Mr Singh's decision was "not a defeat for us", quoted on BBC News, "India PM to boycott Sri Lanka Commonwealth summit", November 10, 2013.
Only the general manager can mold the resources, processes, and values that affect innovation , into a coherent capability to develop and launch superior new products and services repeatedly.
— Clayton M. Christensen (1999) Innovation and the general manager. p. 2
If a given task depends on the completion of other assignments in other functional areas, and if it will, in turn, affect the cost or timing of subsequent tasks, project management is probably called for
— American Management Association (1966) Management Review. January 1966, p. 63
We feel public misfortunes just so far as they affect our private circumstances, and nothing of this nature appeals more directly to us than the loss of money.
— Book XXX, sec. 44 (History of Rome)
Friendship itself prompts it (Government of the U. S.) to say to the Imperial Government (Germany) that repetition by the commanders of German naval vessels of acts in contravention of those rights (neutral) must be regarded by the Government of the United States, when they affect American citizens, as deliberately unfriendly.
— Secretary of War Lansing. Reply to the German Lusitania Note (July 21, 1915). Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 841-60.
