Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
William Cowper

In America you can say anything you want - as long as it doesn't have any effect.
Paul Goodman

So, in effect, my first sale was actually two books.
George Stephen

When did we begin to lose faith in our ability to effect change?
Wynton Marsalis

Grace in women has more effect than beauty.
William Hazlitt

You only need a few people to effect a kidnapping.
Robert Bourassa

I want my life to effect the balance to the positive.
Mira Sorvino

The cause ceasing, the effect ceases also.
Edward Coke

The great increase of our population throughout the Union will alone produce an important effect, and in no quarter will it be so sensibly felt as in those in contemplation.
James Monroe

Society has to change, but the political powers we have at the moment are not enough to effect this change. The whole democratic system would have to be rethought.
Jose Saramago

In effect I am not a novelist, but rather a failed essayist who started to write novels because he didn't know how to write essays.
Jose Saramago

I love that feeling of being in love, the effect of having butterflies when you wake up in the morning. That is special.
Jennifer Aniston

The main American naval forces were shifted to the Pacific region and an American admiral made a strong declaration to the effect that if war were to break out between Japan and the United States, the Japanese navy could be sunk in a matter of weeks.
Hideki Tojo

The law increasing and organizing the military establishment of the United States has been nearly carried into effect, and the Army has been extensively and usefully employed during the past season.
Martin Van Buren

I want to have some effect on the way the world works in whatever way I can, and I also want to have the power to help get the movies that I think are important made.
Maggie Gyllenhaal

You know, I've got experiences going back to the wage price controls in the Nixon administration where, in effect, we had what I think was a terrible mistake, in that case a Republican administration, where moved in and tried to control the wages, prices and profits of every enterprise in America. It was a huge mistake.
Dick Cheney

Philosophy is an attempt by man to find cause and effect. Religion has the same goal.
Al Goldstein

Now the truth is, a president really can't control the economy, although his policies do have some effect on it.
Paul Weyrich

I think of my body as a side effect of my mind.
Carrie Fisher

A very small cause which escapes our notice determines a considerable effect that we cannot fail to see, and then we say that the effect is due to chance.
Henri Poincare