#affect

A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#anything #conservative #conserve #conserving #could

One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs. ↗

— Josh Billings

#airs #best #cures #man #never

I vertically center things in tables a lot, and the fact that there is no way to control vertical positioning in divs affects the way we do things across the board. ↗

— Mike Davidson

#affects #board #center #control #fact

I have a husband and children, and it affects me deeply that somebody could be taken away in a second. ↗

— Hope Davis

#away #children #could #deeply #husband

Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change - it can not only move us, it makes us move. ↗

— Ossie Davis

#any #art #change #form #impact

I think looking back to my own childhood, the fact that so many of the stories I read allowed the possibility of frogs turning into princes, whether that has a sort of insidious affect on rationality, I'm not sure. Perhaps it's something for research. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#allowed #back #childhood #fact #frogs

What do you say when someone has truly inspired you? How do you express to an artist how deeply their work has affected you? ↗

— Laura Dern

#artist #deeply #express #how #inspired

Travel definitely affects me as a writer. ↗

— Anthony Doerr

#definitely #me #travel #writer

The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief. ↗

— George Eliot

#belief #does #egoism #enters #into

We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment. ↗