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• Consider the perverse effect cap and trade has on altruistic actions. Say you decide to buy a small, high-efficiency car. That reduces your emissions, but not your country’s. Instead it allows somebody else to buy a bigger S.U.V. – because the total emissions are set by the cap.

  James Hansen

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Effect, Total

• Capitalism is like the law of the jungle with a few rules. There isn’t another system that works for our society but left unchecked, capitalism can have a dehumanising effect.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Topics in Society

  Tags in Capitalism, Effect

• love has a very dulling effect on the brain.

  Elizabeth Peters

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Effect

• The best thing is the combined effect of nicotine with alcohol, greater than the sum of the two parts.

  Sebastian Faulks

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Effect

• The greenhouse effect is something you can observe experimentally – and most people have observed the greenhouse effect themselves, in greenhouses. Yes?

  Nicholas Stern

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Observed, Effect

• Cause and effect the best often die by their own hand just to get away, and those left behind can never quite understand why anybody would ever want to get away from them.

  Charles Bukowski

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Effect, Understand, Hand

• The whole kiss-and-tell thing is a negative approach that often happens in a World Cup. We will see negative stories about the players and it can affect their confidence and the overall performance of the national team on the pitch, let alone the bid to actually stage the competition.

  Gary Lineker

  Topics in Confidence

  Tags in Negative, Approach, Effect, Tournament

• Our holiness is an effect, not a cause; so long as our eyes are on our own personal whiteness as an end in itself, the thing breaks down.

  Charles Simeon

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Personal, Effect

• It is in the power of every individual to do that which the community as a whole is powerless to effect.

  William Thomas Stead

  Topics in Power

  Tags in Effect

• Her death has had a huge effect on me. It felt like a big hole appeared on my left side – apparently your left side is your mother – which I thought could never be filled. Now I think what you have to do is fill it with yourself because your mother is part of you. I’m easing into that space, using it and being comforted by it.

  Imelda Staunton

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Effect, Comforted, Think

• That was the big effect Lord of the Rings had on me. It was discovering New Zealand. And even more precious were the people- not at all like the Australians.

  Ian McKellen

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Effect, Discovering, Precious

• They say 6 million people see you when you act in a film; it may only be 600 in a play. But the effect on the 600 may be truer and more lasting.

  Cyril Cusack

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Effect, Act

• If there’s an enduring theme in my work, it’s probably the effects of class on American life.

  Richard Russo

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Theme, Effect, American

• Hiroshima had a profound effect upon me.

  Wilfred Burchett

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Hiroshima, Effect

• Our estimates suggest that a tax increase of 1 percent of GDP reduces output over the next three years by nearly 3 percent. The effect is highly significant.

  Christina Romer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Suggest, Effect, Estimate

• The Emancipation Proclamation, signed by President Abraham Lincoln, was put into effect on January 1, 1863, but news of the Proclamation and enforcement did not reach Texas until after the end of the Civil War almost two years later.

  Corrine Brown

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Emancipation, President, Effect

• Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers, which are always repulsed by the anvil.

  Claude Adrien Helvetius

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Effect, Like

• Enquire what the effect of large endowments are upon colleges.

  Ezra Cornell

  Topics in College

  Tags in Effect, Endowments

• Music has just as much to do with movement and body as it does soul and intellect.

  Esa Pekka Salonen

  Topics in Soul

  Tags in Music, Effect

• One blob of red in the wrong place and the audience isn’t looking at the hero, they’re looking at a patch of curtain (or something similar) and your whole effect is lost.

  Terence Fisher

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Audience, Effect, Effective