Affects Quotes
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A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
Henry Brooks Adams— 1907 The Education of Henry Adams, ch.20,'Failure'.
There are those who deny me the right to speak of God, because I am not a believer. And I say that I have every right in the world. I want to talk about God because it is a problem that affects all humanity.
josé saramago— Interview with "El País", 2009.
"...But love is like the measles; the later in life it affects you, the more severe the consequences" "Is there anything you can take for it?" "Only wedding vows"
len deighton— Charity (1997; Harper Paperback, p.280)
I have in this War a burning private grudge which would probably make me a better soldier at 49 than I was at 22: against that ruddy little ignoramus Adolf Hitler (for the odd thing about demonic inspiration and impetus is that it in no way enhances the purely intellectual stature: it chiefly affects the mere will). Ruining, perverting, misapplying, and making for ever accursed, that noble northern spirit, a supreme contribution to Europe , which I have ever loved, and tried to present in its true light .
j. r. r. tolkien— No. 45: To his son Michael Tolkien (09 June, 1941)
Music is no different from opium. Music affects the human mind in a way that makes peoplethinkof nothing but music and sensual matters? Music is a treason to the country, a treason to our youth, and we should cut out all this music and replace it with something instructive.
— 1979 Ramadan speech, 23 Jul. Quoted in Lebrecht Discord (1982).
My subject is the educated imagination, and education is something that affects the whole person, not bits and pieces of him .
Northrop Frye— Talk 6, The Vocation Of Eloquence, p. 66
Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
nadine gordimer— "Censorship and its Aftermath" (June 1990)
We lament the mistakes of a good man, and do not begin to detest him until he affects to renounce his principles.
junius— No. 41, to Lord Mansfield (November 14, 1770)
The more honesty a man has, the less he affects the air of a saint.
johann kaspar lavater— As quoted in Many Thoughts of Many Minds (1862) edited by Henry Southgate, p. 290
All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!
thomas edward ("t. e.") lawrence— Letter to Bruce Rogers (20 August 1931)
My definition of "good" is that you understand that this is a question of power, that you be willing to give up some power, that you be willing to give up some resources, that you be willing to pay black people reparations for our years and years of service in this country, that you be willing to go home and tell your white mother and father about white racism and how it affects and kills black people in our communities. That's my definition of good white people and I haven't met any like that.
sister souljah— Interview (1992)
The philosophy which affects to teach us a contempt of money does not run very deep; for, indeed, it ought to be still more clear to the philosopher than it is to ordinary men, that there are few things in the world of greater importance.
henry taylor— Money.
Everything lives and perishes through magnetism; one thing affects another one, even at great distances, and its "congenitals" may be influenced to health and disease by the power of this sympathy, at any time, and notwithstanding the intervening space.
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky— Chapter VII (Volume I)
Relativity is inherently convergent, though convergent toward a plurality of centers of abstract truths. Degrees of accuracy are only degrees of refinement and magnitude in no way affects the fundamental reliability, which refers, as directional or angular sense, toward centralized truths. Truth is a relationship .
buckminster fuller— "The Designers and the Politicians" (1962), later published in Ideas and Integrities : A Spontaneous Autobiographical Disclosure (1969), p. 233, and The The Buckminster Fuller Reader (1970), p. 305
I mean this, that together with the so-called increase of expenditure there grows up what may be termed a spirit which, insensibly and unconsciously perhaps, but really, affects the spirit of the people, the spirit of parliament, the spirit of the public departments, and perhaps even the spirit of those whose duty it is to submit the estimates to parliament.
william ewart gladstone— Speech in the House of Commons (16 April 1863), quoted n The Life of William Ewart Gladstone. Volume II (1903) by John Morley, p. 62
A teacher affects eternity: he can never tell where his influence stops.
hans hofmann— Henry Brooks Adams, in The Education of Henry Adams (1907)
The difference between [perjury and prevarication] consists in this, that perjury is a distinct assertion of that which can be proved not to be, or a denial of that which can be proved to be; whereas prevarication is the giving of contradictory or inconsistent evidence , which affects the credibility of the evidence, though neither the extent of the witness’s falsehood , nor the precise points in which he has departed from the truth be capable of ascertainment.
— R. Clarke, in Modern Histories of Crime and Punishment, p.316
A system is a set of two or more elements that satisfies the following three conditions. (1) The behavior of each element has an effect on the behavior of the whole. (2) The behavior of the elements and their effects on the whole are interdependent. the way each element behaves and the way it affects the whole depends on how at least one other element behaves. (3) However subgroups of the elements are formed, each has an effect on the behavior of the whole and none has an independent effect on it.
— Russell L. Ackoff (1981) , Creating the Corporate Future. p.15-16
Cancer affects all of us, whether you're a daughter, mother, sister, friend, coworker, doctor, or patient.
Jennifer Anniston— American actress; found in Reimagining Women's Cancers by David Tabatsky
But now if I can wrap myself up in that song, and when that song gets to be a part of me, and affects me emotionally, then the emotions that I go through, chances are I’ll be able to communicate to you. Make the people out there become a part of the life of this song that you’re singing about. That’s soul when you can do that.[2]
— "Ray Charles & a symposium on soul", Pop Chronicles, Show 15: the Soul Reformation, interview recorded 3.8.1968.
But now if I can wrap myself up in that song, and when that song gets to be a part of me, and affects me emotionally, then the emotions that I go through, chances are I’ll be able to communicate to you. Make the people out there become a part of the life of this song that you’re singing about. That’s soul when you can do that.[1]
— Ray Charles on the Pop Chronicles: the Soul Reformation, interview recorded 3.8.1968.
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
henry adams— Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams, Ch. 20, "Failure".
Saint-Simon leaves a legacy which affects all socialisms, for he introduces into social theory (he theme of idleness and parasitism as social problems consequent on the evasion of the central social responsibility ascribed to citizens: the duty to be productive .
— Peter Beilharz, in Labour's Utopias: Bolshevism, Fabianism, Social Democracy (1992).
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell, where his influence stops.
— Henry Brooks Adams, in The Education of Henry Adams (1907)
Most people have music in the center of their lives. I believe my work sheds light on how music affects us and why it is so influential.
— Susan McClary, quoted in Sullivan, Meg (May 2002). Spotlight: Susan McClary, Musicologist.
Oh, Mercy now I understand : The secret behind your actions , the thread that binds all these seemingly random events. … There's no great or small! No question of size or importance! Each act of compassion however minor it may appear to our blind eyes affects all Creation; shakes it to its roots!
— J. M. DeMatteis, in Mercy (1993)
With ravished ears The monarch hears, Assumes the god, affects to nod, And seems to shake the spheres.
john dryden— 1697 Alexander's Feast, l.42-6.
With ravish'd ears The monarch hears, Assumes the god, affects to nod, And seems to shake the spheres.
john dryden— John Dryden, Alexander's Feast (1697), line 37.
