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

I begin by considering an effect.
Maurice Ravel

Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer's own life.
Eudora Welty

Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language.
Hilaire Belloc

A lot of people understand what not saying anything means, so, in effect, not saying anything is really saying a lot.
Bill Walton

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.
Hosea Ballou

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

Because just as arms have no force outside if there is no counsel within a house, study is vain and counsel useless that is not put to virtuous effect when the time calls.
Francois Rabelais

I could have done a hundred songs, really. It was hard to narrow them down, because I tried to pick songs for the most part that actually did have some effect on me or influenced me in the past.
Alan Jackson

I think Shrek makes an effect in older people. And there are many things in the movie that you saw that are not for kids. Kids would not understand certain things.
Antonio Banderas

The only side effect of too much training is that you get into better shape. There is nothing wrong with that.
Mark Spitz

Every person's every action has an effect.
Rosanne Cash

What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error.
Raymond Aron

You can eliminate, for example, a Brazil nut gene if you know that it will create an allergenic effect.
Jeremy Rifkin

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

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

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