#affect

Patriarchy is like the elephant in the room that we don't talk about, but how could it not affect the planet radically when it's the superstructure of human society. ↗

— Ani DiFranco

#affect #could #elephant #how #human

The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to ancient Egypt. Perhaps the use of this particular convention is due to the fact that, being stupid, affectionate, gregarious, and easily stampeded, the societies formed by sheep are most like human ones. ↗

— Northrop Frye

#ancient #back #being #convention #due

I utter this word with deepest affection and from the very bottom of my heart. ↗

— Giuseppe Garibaldi

#bottom #deepest #heart #i #utter

The real American type can never be a ballet dancer. The legs are too long, the body too supple and the spirit too free for this school of affected grace and toe walking. ↗

— Isadora Duncan

#american #ballet #ballet dancer #body #dancer

Does the New York City Ballet affect other places? Yeah, it lets people know they should come to New York. ↗

— John Guare

#ballet #city #come #does #know

We try to... we are, I suppose to a certain extent all affected and erm, that is both funny and sad I think. ↗

— Tony Hancock

#both #certain #certain extent #erm #extent

A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection. ↗

— Arthur Helps

#affection #mixture #pity #recipes #surest

Having decisions made not in midnight deals but in the light of objective evidence and after consulting those who will be affected should itself provide some reassurance that the EU is trying to reform itself. ↗

— John Hutton

#after #consulting #deals #decisions #eu

Millions of American families affected by debilitating diseases have new hope today after the U.S. House passed legislation to support potentially life-saving stem cell research. ↗

— Nancy L. Johnson

#after #american #american families #cell #cell research

Iceland, though it lies so far to the north that it is partly within the Arctic Circle, is, like Norway, Scotland, and Ireland, affected by the Gulf Stream, so that considerable portions of it are quite habitable. ↗

— Harry Johnston

#arctic #circle #considerable #far #gulf